Join in the Partnership
We have a number of ways you can connect with the partners in the network and build relationships before you need them, so that it is always a 'How are you?' and not 'Who are you?'
Join the partnership: Become a standing bone fide partner by signing up to simple principles of collaboration. If you are a voluntary or community sector organisation, a statutory partner or a local or national government agency, we welcome you into the partnership. Start with a kick off call with our team and then join any of our events and activities as it suits you.
Monthly Network Calls: Usually takes place online on the 1st Thursday of the month. A zoom invite is sent out a week before with agenda and speaker and discussion information. Connect with our Head of Partnership Engagement, Jon Vangorph to ensure you are getting the invite.
Quarterly Capability Development events: These are usually an hour long and we host two topics on the same day each quarter. The events are a mixture of specialist and peer-led learning. Events are advertised on our website and bulletins, so make sure you are getting those.
Regular regional networking and table-top exercising: Once a quarter partners from each region get together online in smaller cohorts. During most emergencies, it is the organisations in your neighbourhood that you are most likely to turn to. This give you a great opportunity to find out who they are and the friendly faces behind them. Get in touch with Becky Maynard if you are based in the South-West, Midlands or North or Abubaker Adam if you are based in London or the South East.
Join our Slack conversations: We use Slack channels to keep partners updated in real time during a crisis but also to share information and collaborate by theme or region. Get in touch with Nicola Horne to receive an invite to join.
Monthly EP bulletin: This will keep you informed and updated on the latest emergency response, preparedness plans, situational awareness, partner organisation activity and upcoming events in the emergency planning and resilience space. Sign up here.
EP Listen & Learns: Bring your team together with the EP team to workshop how the partnership can work for you. Get in touch with Head of Partnership Engagement, Jon Vangorph to arrange that.
A quick reminder, why staying connected and involved is crucial to emergency response:
Better outcomes for people at risk of or impacted by emergencies. By learning, sharing and leaning on the diversity of experience, connections and skills across the partnership – the people and communities that all of us are dedicated to supporting will have access to the compassionate support they need when they need it most.
More opportunities to make connections that add value. Strengthen your local, regional, and national networks and connections and build trusted relationships across the sector and statutory bodies including with Local Resilience Forums.
Access to actionable information and intelligence. Through sharing learning, data, best practice and insight across different communities, through organisations as well as in and out of government we’ll all be better equipped to prepare and respond.
Develop skills and capability. Building your individual, team and organisational capabilities and skills in emergency preparedness and response enables us all to better serve our communities.
Greater influence through a collective voice. Together we raise awareness and combine sector voices on the changes needed to build resilience to and recovery from major shocks. Strength in numbers allows us to go further with the impact as individual organisations and as a sector partnership.