Devon Community Resilience Forum
Places are Still available for the forum on 11th March 2025 at Langtree Parish Hall
Preparing for a Storm:
How would your community manage in an emergency?
We are excited to announce that the main activity for the Devon Community Resilience Forum is a practical emergency response exercise, which will be led by Harriet Freestone from JBA Consulting (one of the worlds leading environmental and engineering consultancies).
This will be a chance to help develop or test YOUR community plan. Bring along your plans or work with one of our models.
Remember: Emergencies don't follow a plan, and an exercise is a great way to improve your ability to respond effectively.
If you haven't been to one of our events before, they are the perfect place for learning more about community resilience as well as great networking and knowledge sharing opportunities. We would love to see you there!
More information and book your FREE place today
what is the devon community resilience forum?
Devon Community Resilience Forum is a partnership between Devon Communities Together, Devon County Council, Environment Agency and South West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee. We support communities to develop their community emergency plan (CEP); a 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, 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 we run twice yearly forum events to help increase your local resilience and network with other communities (the spring/summer event will be in-person and the winter event online), as well as issuing quarterly newsletters to members.
For support on creating or updating your community emergency plan, contact dCRF@devoncommunities.org.uk
- including case studies, guidance and templates
- Access complementary resources for community resilience groups from Communities Prepared
Grant applications NOW open for 2024/25
Apply now if:
- You are preparing a community emergency plan or
- You have recently submitted a community emergency plan and need practical help to implement it eg small scale works and equipment
Grant funding for emergency planning
