The London Communities Emergencies Partnership (LCEP) have written a report assessing the impact and effectiveness of a Greater London Authority funded project to support community groups to prepare for extreme heat.
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In the next of our partner spotlights, we speak to Maddy Desforges OBE, Chief Executive Officer at NAVCA and Co-chair of the VCS Emergencies Partnership.
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The recent nation-wide power outages in Spain, Portugal and Andorra have highlighted the critical need for better preparedness in the face of large-scale power disruptions here in the UK. But what can the VCS do to help communities to prepare?
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In it’s second full year of operation, the London Communities Emergencies Partnership (LCEP) has had a busy year.
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In the next of our partner spotlights, we speak to Cliff Fleming, Resilience Manager for Communities at the London Resilience Unit.
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In January 2025 a gas outage affected thousands of people in North London in the middle of a cold snap. We’ve chosen Golden Rule Day (April 5), to share this story of how a local multi-faith forum became part of an integrated community response.
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As well as helpfully moving the reader on from seeing the voluntary and community sector as a two-dimensional homogenous group, the report talks through the powerful range of skills and capabilities the sector offers in resilience and, quite rightly, calls for civil society’s role not just to be seen as a nice to have, but as a piece of ‘critical national infrastructure’ that attracts respect, involvement and Government investment.
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In the second of a new series of partner spotlights, we speak to Jo Turner, National Practice Development Project Manager at Homeless Link.
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This report, Riots to Resilience: Five ways to turn lessons into action, compiles the stories and experiences of 80 Emergencies Partnership partners during the racist and Islamophobic riots of August 2024.
From speaking to a range of local and national voluntary and community sector partners, as well as statutory partners, it highlights what worked and what was missing, and develops that learning into five ways communities can be more resilient in future.
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In the first of a new series of partner spotlights, we speak to Sulafa Abushal, VCFSE Programme Manager at Greater Manchester Resilience Forum.
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Join our director Robyn Knox on Thursday 13 February, 2025, for a Webinar hosted by the Emergency Services Times asking ‘How can we break the cycle of failing to learn from incidents.’
The webinar explores potential for closer connections between blue light services and the voluntary and community sector to deliver part of the change needed to help us put people and communities at the heart of emergency planning, response and recovery, from the start.
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Yesterday (February 5, 2025) the government met with bereaved relatives and survivors from the Grenfell Tower fire. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announced a decision to demolish the tower. A formal announcement by the government is expected tomorrow (Friday).
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Volunteers from charities, community and faith groups are ready today for another push tonight in response to a week of freezing weather, rain, snow and flooding, which has swept across England and the rest of the UK since the start of this year.
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The UK Government’s Civil Society Covenant represents a compelling opportunity to transform the relationship between government and the voluntary and community sector (VCS). In consultation with umbrella bodies NCVO and ACEVO a framework for the covenant has been laid out, committing to collaboration, mutual respect, and shared accountability.
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December’s bulletin reflects on 2024, shares winter preparedness resources and explores news and views from the Partnership.
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How Suffolk’s LRF and VCS have implemented lessons to better understand each other.
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