We speak with Abubaker Adam and Emily Coatham about their experiences during the response to the Lebanon evacuation in 2024.
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Our Insight Lead, Tom Watkins, has been reflecting on the new National Security Strategy and what it means for the Voluntary and Community Sector.
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To celebrate Volunteers’ Week 2025, our usual Network Call had a volunteer-focused takeover. We were joined by five guest panellists to discuss the role of volunteers in emergencies and lessons identified from previous responses.
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In the next of our partner spotlights, we speak to Emily Coatham, LCEP Partnership Manager at London Plus.
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Our Insight Lead, Tom Watkins, reflects on what the Government’s Spending Review means for civil society and whole society resilience.
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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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