Our aim is for greater national resilience and a better experience for those impacted by emergencies.
NEW REPORT Riots to Resilience: Five ways to turn lessons into action
The VCS Emergencies Partnership and Neighbourly Lab have published a report sharing stories and experiences from the racist and Islamophobic riots of August 2024, showing what worked and what was missing, and developing learning into five ways communities can be more resilient in future.
How we do this
The Emergencies Partnership has three strategic pillars. These key aims underpin everything we do, helping us and our partners to increase emergency preparedness and ensure the most effective and coordinated response in a crisis.
Sharing learning & insight
We review our responses and collect recommendations from different emergencies to inform our activity. We use data and insight to encourage responses which puts people's needs at the heart and challenge partners to put this insight into practice.
Building trusted connections
We build and strengthen trusted connections to ensure that partners, including sector and statutory organisations, local community actors and the emergency services, are better prepared and can respond effectively together when an emergency strikes.
Enhancing skills & capability
We work with the sector to build skills and capabilities to ensure a more human-centred approach to preparedness and response, whether that’s improving understanding of the needs of a community or exercising scenarios to identify gaps.
Winter Preparedness
As we enter the winter months, it is crucial to understand and prepare for the challenges that colder weather may pose to our communities.
This page provides valuable insights, resources, and guidance to help you navigate the risks. By staying informed and taking proactive measures, we can collectively mitigate the impacts.
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London Communities Emergencies Partnership
When there is a major emergency in London, the response needs to be quick, coordinated and effective. The London Communities Emergencies Partnership (LCEP) helps to make this happen.
LCEP supports organisations across London before, during and after emergencies, including charities, community groups and faith and equality organisations, alongside statutory services.
We support our network of 300 partners to connect, coordinate and learn during all stages of the emergency cycle.
Every partner provides valuable insight and contributions to the Partnership, no matter their size or capacity, with each of them experts in their own community’s needs.
Thanks for all the coordination, this is one of the most valuable bodies we are part of. The volume and value of networking and support provided is excellent.
Rebecca Wilson
Head of Programmes, Little Village
We don’t say it often enough but thank you to you and the Partnership Team, what you do day in day out is appreciated and not taken for granted.
Ady Clee
Territorial Emergency Response Officer, The Salvation Army
We only had individual relationships beforehand, then we started engaging with the Partnership as a whole, which was really helpful, and we did things differently.
National Government agency
Although we feel we are doing things on our own, we have back-up from the VCS Emergencies Partnership. We have connections there that we can draw on. If I have a problem, I do not have to suffer on my own, I can go to the wider network and pool those skills.
Shelley Hart
CEO, Havering Volunteer Centre