Our aim is for greater national resilience and a better experience for those impacted by emergencies.
Emergencies Partnership: LIVE
The Emergencies Partnership is hosting its first all partner, in-person event!
EP: LIVE will bring together partners from all sectors to strengthen connections, share learning and showcase the powerful impact of community-led resilience.
Attendees can expect the high‑quality experience they value from our online spaces, and more. The programme delivers a full day of inspiring talks, masterclasses, and networking to celebrate our achievements and and take the power of partnerships to the next level.
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.
Riots to Resilience: Five ways to turn lessons into action
The VCS Emergencies Partnership and Neighbourly Lab 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.
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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 500 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.
Why would I look for info elsewhere when I have great information at my fingertips produced and supplied - good training on necessary subjects, bite size information - good resources and connections.
Shelley Hart,
Havering Volunteer Centre
I was introduced to Jon and the work of the EP - what a bloomin brilliant group of people they are - so full of support, advice and guidance, excellent resources - a combination that enables us to think more strategically about our role with emergencies, how we can assist, and how we can support others to prepare.
Chris Hailey-Norris,
Up For Yorkshire
The EP has become an established and trusted presence. The relationships they’ve built across the sector and with others have a real impact.
British Red Cross
The EP's summaries and updates are incredibly useful - they’re timely, well‑pitched and help us understand what’s happening across the system.
Greater London Authority
It would have taken me time to source the information from various sources that EP provided in its seminars so EP has made this much easier for me.
Jenny Jones,
Lancashire County Council