MONDAY 14TH NOVEMBER - WEDNESDAY 16TH NOVEMBER:
FREE ONLINE FORUM EVENT: MORE THAN 20 SESSIONS AVAILABLE OVER 3 DAYS AND EVENINGS
A special series of FREE online events are being held between Monday 14th and Wednesday 16th November 2022 for anyone interested or involved with re-charging and re-energizing their community, especially in the context of extreme weather and other community emergencies.
The exclusive Devon Community Resilience Forum event, put together by independent charity Devon Communities Together, is a chance to find out about a vast range of topics for improving community resilience, including; how to make your community more resilient as we move into winter, get help with community emergency planning, meet the local services and discover their role in community planning, get the latest facts and figures on climate change and learn how you can adapt to extreme temperatures.
The emphasis is on sharing knowledge and best practice, and providing a platform in which people can come together to gain a wealth of knowledge to help guide and develop their communities.
The event will be run fully online and held on Zoom over the three days, including evenings, and recorded so those that cannot attend can catch up afterwards. Tickets for each session are available via this link: Devon Community Resilience Forum virtual event 14-16 November 2022 Tickets, Mon 14 Nov 2022 at 09:30 | Eventbrite
The timetable of events is below:
Laura Dixon, Project Manager from Devon Communities Together said, “In May this year we held our first in-person forum event for several years; attendees said how much they appreciated the opportunity to network with other groups and discuss the important issue of resilience. This winter event is online to give the chance for more people to attend, and for us to run a greater variety of sessions; there will be plenty of time for discussion and questions after the presentations. These sessions are perfect for emergency planning groups, Parish and Town Councils, Flood Wardens and anyone else who is involved in supporting communities in emergency situations.”
Devon Community Resilience Forum
The event is being run by the Devon Community Resilience Forum, a group that supports communities to develop their Community Emergency Plan; an essential document that guides community response in an emergency and helps communities to prepare. Community emergency plans are also uploaded to a secure website where they can be viewed by the emergency services, so if there is an emergency in your community they will be able to view your plan and understand how the community may already be responding, where there is high risk, and what resources the community has. Alongside supporting plan development, the Forum runs twice yearly forum events to help increase local resilience and the opportunity network with other communities.
One of the most important and vital pieces of guidance to take away from the Forum is the 9 STEP GUIDE for your community emergency plan:
- Getting together and organising the work
- Knowing the unknowns
- Identifying skills and resources
- Legal Health Check
- Organising key facilities
- Keeping in touch
- Activating your emergency plan
- Taking control
- Testing your plan
REMEMBER: PREPARE, RESPOND, RECOVER
