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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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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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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