About The Group
We are a group of local residents with no particular affiliation with other groups, either social or statutory. We share a common interest in helping to make our area more resilient in the face of short term emergencies, however they arise. Our broad goals are twofold:
- To focus on practical actions to help make our locality more resilient
- Having established good tried and tested good practice for our own community, to provide guidance, templates, training and advocacy for other local groups wishing to replicate our approach
The focus is on practical advice which anyone can draw from, step by step, to improve their own resilience. We are not ourselves a group to be called on in trying times, though our members help organisations that will.
Our initial plan includes the production of two guides
- Household resilience guidelines similar to those in use in other countries, tailored to the UK
- Local area resilience guidelines which can be used and adapted by the numerous voluntary, faith, statutory and civil groups in our area who can step up when called upon
As lessons are learned we intend to include those in our guidelines through continuous improvement. The guides will be published under terms which encourage others to adapt them also, mostly likely a permissive copyright along Creative Commons lines.
Our philosophy is that anything 'just for emergencies' is likely to be neglected in normal times. Wherever possible we encourage incremental changes to practices and habits so that day-to-day activities include enough resiliency to help deal with the unexpected as well as the usual.
There's extensive evidence that, in trying times, communities tend to pull together as they learn to help themselves. We want to help people think about that in advance, prepare for it and to have the plans and resources that help that happen right from the first day, instead of being figured out in the midst of dealing with stress.