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.
Flooding is a significant and growing risk in the UK, even during the summer months. While traditionally associated with winter storms, summer flooding presents unique challenges due to climatic, geographic, and human factors. Understanding these factors can help us better prepare for and mitigate the impacts of summer floods. Causes of Summer Flooding How to […]
Happy Volunteering Week 2024! Embrace the joy of giving back and experience the profound benefits it brings. Volunteering offers countless benefits that extend beyond just helping others. According to a national survey by the NCVO, volunteers report: 77% of volunteers reported that volunteering improved their mental health and wellbeing. No matter your age or the […]
As we all know, volunteering has often been the glue that holds society together, especially for emergency response. Without it, we can’t recover from disasters or emergencies with the same resilience, as seen during COVID-19. The impact of some emergencies can be immense and create diverse needs, which the emergency services might struggle to respond to […]
In March, Nick, Richard and Alice from the Communities Prepared team attended the second National Conference on Societal Resilience, at the University of Manchester, along with around 180 other attendees from a mix including Local Resilience Forums, Resilience organisations, Central government representatives, consultancies, and academics. So what did we learn, and what does this mean […]
We were so pleased to take part in the newly rebranded Flood and Water Management Expo last month, and to see so many of you there at our stand and our workshop with JBA Consulting. Delivery Manager Mike Anthony and Senior Project Officers Richard Hood and Alice Moorcroft-Hughes attended from the Communities Prepared team and […]
Thanks to the success of last year, the Community Flood Zone is returning with the explicit aim of centring the public in the discussion around flooding. Developed by Communities Prepared and flood specialist organisations, this is a space to come with your questions, concerns and experiences and help to steer the priorities of the flood services sector and the wider conversation around flooding and community resilience.
Whether or not our summer arrives, we are still likely to face prolonged periods of heat, this year and beyond. How can we protect ourselves and others? What could we consider doing as communities to be better prepared? All of this and more will be answered in our new blog post from one of our new communities prepared team members, Alice Moorcroft-Hughes, looking at heatwaves and what communities can do to be able to withstand the hot weather to come.
JBA Consulting’s Phil Emonson’s reflects on last month’s Flood and Coast workshop collaboration with Communities Prepared and on wider societal resilience to climate change. With ‘whole of society’ resilience now a national government ambition, and reflecting on JBA’s own vision to ‘lead in society’s pursuit for resilience to climate change’, it was with huge pleasure […]
DRY Project lead Professor Lindsey McEwan explains the flood-drought continuum and its value when considering community resilience in a guest blog.
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 […]
