Resources
Winter Preparedness
This page provides insight, information, advice and guidance from a variety of sources on topics which are likely to be of relevance to the VCS over the winter period, including cold weather, storms, power cuts and flooding.
Summer Preparedness
This page provides valuable insights, resources, and guidance to help you navigate the risks associated with heatwaves and extreme heat. By staying informed and taking proactive measures, we can collectively mitigate the impacts.
Exercising
Whether it’s supporting the review of response plans, better understanding the capabilities of others, or identifying gaps - exercising provides a safe environment to test a response before an emergency happens. Our exercising page provides resources partners can tailor to their needs.
Emergency Alert System
The UK’s Emergency Alerts System enables people to be contacted via their mobile phone and tablet if their lives are at risk in an emergency. This page tells you everything you need to know about Emergency Alerts.
Information Sheets
Our Infosheets are designed to provide introductory knowledge to a range of emergency preparedness, response and recovery topics from across the Partnership and beyond.
VCS Skills and Support in Emergencies Guide
The VCS Skills and Support in Emergencies Guide is a tool that we believe can help government to better engage with the Voluntary, Community and Faith Sector (VCFS) at a time of significant or whole system civil emergency. The guide shares information on the different types of VCFS partners the government should consider, lists their key capabilities and suggests five crucial considerations for how to draw on the full potential of the sector.
This guide is just that, a guide, and so Central Government departments and agencies must undertake their own due diligence, suitability and capacity checks of organisations as part of engagement.
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News and Reports
News, case studies, reports from the sector, summary notes from events, guidance documents and more.
Blogs
Insightful and thought-provoking blogs and interviews showcasing the work of our partners and the wider voluntary and community sector.
Bulletins
Read our monthly bulletins, featuring news and events for the sector, and exploring themes that are important to partners.