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The London Resilience Unit has joined forces with resilience charity Groundwork to develop a toolkit packed with practical information and guidance to help Londoners better prepare for and respond to future emergencies.
The London Community Resilience Toolkit is designed for anyone thinking about building greater community resilience in their local area. It helps identify local resources and partners, develop relationships with and support volunteers, and think about how to use community spaces.
Building on the learning coming out of the Grenfell Tower fire where communities came together to support the bereaved, survivors and residents in North Kensington, the toolkit is intended to help communities right across London to prepare for, respond to and recover from future challenges and emergencies large and small. It provides the steps that people can take to keep themselves and others safe, helping communities to be more resilient.
The downloadable toolkit is made up of 64-pages of useful background and advice, including how to take community action in the face of climate impacts – flooding, heatwaves and cold weather. There is step by step advice activities that lead to meaningful outcomes with inclusion as a principle running throughout. Templates allow for groups to edit and complete actions that work for local circumstances.
Visit the London Community Resilience Toolkit and download the resources from there.
Email the GLA London Resilience Unit via londonresilience@london.gov.uk for further information about the toolkit.
To find out more about how community groups and emergency services come together to boost resilience, watch the Emergency Services Times webinar, How to break the cycle of failing to learn from incidents, on catch up.
