London Yellow Heat-Health Alert and Yellow Wildfire Alert (18th - 22nd June)
Please note a Yellow Heat-health alert has been issued. The alert is in effect from 18 June 2025 at 12:00pm to 22 June 2025 at 06:00pm.
Recommended Actions for Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations (VCS):
- Review the linked summary card that contains suggested actions for voluntary and community sector organisations
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Make sure you are registered to receive the alerts directly by email by completing the registration form.
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Encourage staff and service users to sign up to receive the Met Officer alerts
- Whilst there are weather warnings are in place, use this as an opportunity to review your Business Continuity Plans. Consider your organisations upcoming activities and events, the welfare of staff, volunteers and service users.
Please see the sector specific Action cards for use, below:
- Heat-Health Alert Action card for the voluntary and community sector
- Hot weather and Health: supporting vulnerable people
- Weather ready campaign
- UKHSA Promotional Materials: Beat the Heat - Materials include easy read & BSL, videos, home checklist and posters you can print out in different languages (Arabic, Bengali, Spanish, Gujarati, Italian, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian and Ukrainian)
You can find a map of Cool Spaces across London here, and register your own too.
The Met Office’s #WeatherReady campaign also has lots of advice and guidance.
Wildfire Alert
London Fire Brigade provide guidance and support around wildfire risk on this webpage.
Social Channels
Do follow London Resilience on either BlueSky or X (Twitter) where we will be sharing content.
DOWNLOAD:
- Infographic for Hot Weather
- Keep your home cool during hot weather
- Going out in the sun
- Look out for people who might struggle
- Hot weather toolkit
