Guide to using Zoom
This guide has been designed to support community volunteers and partners in using Zoom to participate in Communities Prepared webinars.
News
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 Imogen.Smith@groundwork.org.
Flood Action Campaign 2020
This year, the Environment Agency’s annual Flood Action Campaign is targeting people who live in areas at high risk of flooding but have not yet experienced flooding to their home.
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Community Mobilisation
Senior Policy Researcher, Luca Tiratelli discusses NLGN’s latest report on Community Mobilisation and what this looks like in practice.
An Emergency Response Plan in action
In this volunteer Q&A, John Roe discusses how he and his volunteer team put into action their Emergency Response Plan in response to COVID-19.
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#30days30waysUK to launch its 6th annual preparedness campaign this September
#30days30waysUK gets ready to launch its 6th annual ‘September is Preparedness Month’ social media campaign
Working together to prepare for the future
The latest news from the Communities Prepared team PLUS the importance of working collaboratively to prepare for future unknowns
From floods to pandemics: adapting to COVID-19
Emergency Officer, Andrew Turner discusses how his community volunteers in his Dorset parish adapted to the impact of COVID-19 .
Building resilience in rural communities
Communities Prepared and ACRE have published a new guide to help rural communities become more resilient in the face of emergencies.
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Examining the role of volunteers in disasters across the USA and Europe
Melvin Hartley, a 2019 Churchill Fellow, has recently undertaken research across the United States and Europe into the role of volunteers in disasters. Here, he shares some of his learnings.
