Welcome! Here you’ll find our latest community engagement news, training and volunteering highlights plus guest blogs covering a range of community resilience and emergency planning topics. From academic research to Q&As with volunteers, we are always looking to share knowledge and expertise. If you have a guest blog you’d like to submit, get in touch! Email communitiesprepared@groundwork.org.
Communities Prepared Blog Climate change is fundamentally altering the nature and frequency of severe weather. In recent years, extremely hot weather during the summer months has become increasingly prevalent, and data modelling from Friends of the Earth suggest that hotter summers are likely to be a feature in years to come. Despite the misconception that it is ‘safer’ to sleep […]
The horrifying media images of the devastation that wildfires have caused in recent years have been clear for all to see – from the shocking loss of homes in California to burning wild life in Australia. Devastating deaths, large-scale evacuations, destruction of towns, widespread pollution and biodiversity loss. Impacts are being realised across all over […]
My name is Matt Golding – and I’m a filmmaker and more recently a podcaster. In my latest project, “Screw This, Let’s try something else”, I and friend / fellow storyteller Maryam Pasha tour the UK visiting just some of the hundreds of ordinary communities that are doing something extraordinary – and demonstrating that new, […]
Recently Alice and Jesse were fortunate enough to attend the National Consortium of Societal Resilience (NCSR+) 2026 conference up in Manchester. The dual themes of the conference – on youth & family engagement, as well as water outages – prompted lots of interesting discussion in the conference hall with implications not just for Communities Prepared’s work but for the […]
In this month’s guest blog, Dr Sarah Bell shines the light on an essential topic, the interface of climate resilience and disability. Dr Bell is a senior lecturer in Health Geography at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECEHH). Since 2019, Dr Bell has been co-designing an interdisciplinary research programme to explore opportunities to highlight disability […]
Firstly, let me introduce myself. My name is Mark Rogers, and I am the Met Office Civil Contingencies Advisor for London and Southeast England. My role within the Met Office is to work alongside emergency responder partners, providing them with any weather-related information that they may need, especially during a period of severe weather. I […]
Communities Prepared is very sad to share that we’ll shortly be saying goodbye to one of our senior project officers, Richard Hood. Richard is moving on to serve as strategic lead for Resilience and Emergency Management and Business Continuity for Croydon Borough Council and hopes to make a significant impact to the community. Richard has […]
In our latest guest blog, Mark Rogers, Met Office Advisor (Civil Contingencies), shares some of the ways in which the Met Office is supporting communities to become more resilient to severe weather events. ‘Chaos of Storm Eunice’ and ‘Blizzards to Sweep Britain’ are some of the many headlines narrated by news outlets in response to […]
Communities Prepared team meets in-person in Bristol, UK In late May we were delighted to hear that our application to The National Lottery Community Fund for a further five years of funding was successful! We are hugely grateful for the Fund’s continued support, and the opportunity that this gives us to both continue the work […]
Communities Prepared Blog Climate change is fundamentally altering the nature and frequency of severe weather. In recent years, extremely hot weather during the summer months has become increasingly prevalent, and data modelling from Friends of the Earth suggest that hotter summers are likely to be a feature in years to come. Despite the misconception that it is ‘safer’ to sleep […]
