Meet the ’prepper’ mums getting ready for the collapse of civilisation

TRAINING their kids to use knives and dining out on roadkill... meet the suburban mums ready for the collapse of civilisation as we know it. A surge in “prepper parenting“ has seen bookings in survival courses soar, with mothers across the UK stockpiling for a crisis - even if they’re called “doomsday damsels“ by confused neighbours. This month the deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden told Brits to buy candles and battery powered radios in case power supplies or digital connections went down. And experts tell The Sun that they had seen a 100 per cent rise in people taking survival classes well before this announcement, with women leading the way. British preppers are worried about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza leading to a global conflict, rising energy prices, lockdown and flooding. Survival expert Jason Ingamells, 46, from Matlock, Derbyshire, whose Woodland Ways company offers courses across the UK and abroad, says: “The number of men, women and fami