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Community Resilience is about communities using local resources and knowledge to help themselves during an emergency in a way that complements the local emergency services.
Your community will be better prepared to cope during and after an emergency when everyone works together using their local knowledge. Things like understanding what requirements most-at-need groups may have in an emergency can make a real difference. Identifying and planning for the risks you may encounter, during a severe flood, heat-wave or snowfall could help in reducing the potential impact on you, your family and the wider community.
Being prepared and able to respond to an emergency can often help people recover more quickly. This illustrates how successful community resilience can be and why many communities are already engaged in this planning.
This section offers you the opportunity to get involved and contribute by sharing examples of resilience activities taking place in your community.
We are aware that lots of you are already taking steps to prepare your community to cope with an emergency. We would like to hear about these initiatives and share the examples with others. This will raise awareness and understanding amongst other communities, who may seek to adapt these to suit their own local need.
With this in mind, we are developing a case study library (coming soon). This will enable you to highlight your own local resilience activities and find out what other communities are doing.
If you think that you could provide a relevant community resilience case study, please use the template and accompanying guidance. Completed documents should be emailed to: community.resilience@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk
The Community Resilience programme was established in 2008 to explore ways to support communities in becoming resilient to the range of emergencies which they might face. Our work aims to:
A number of downloadable resources have been developed to encourage you to take steps to prepare for an emergency and to think about the risks you face. These include:
An awards helpsheet has also been developed if you wish to recognise a community member who has engaged with resilience and recovery work.
For further information on the Community Resilience programme:
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