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London_Resilience_logo.jpegLondon Resilience - January 2025 Update

Welcome to the January 2025 London Resilience Update. Happy Lunar New Year to all East and Southeast Asian communities celebrating!

London Communities Emergencies Partnership (LCEP) have produced an informational video about resilience structures in London, which helps to breakdown and explain how the various partnerships work. Please do share with your networks to help promote more understanding. You can find a link to the video here.

In this update you’ll find information on:

  • Winter Preparedness Resources 
  • The N10 Gas Outage Response  
  • The Mayor’s Loved and Wanted Campaign 
  • British Red Cross’ Flood Risk Report 
  • The Met Office Training
  • Great Mental Health Day 2025 

WINTER PREPAREDNESS RESOURCES

As we continue into the winter months, we highlight some helpful resources and support available on winter preparedness. Please do share with your communities.  

Every year, the London Communities Emergencies Partnership (LCEP) hosts a winter preparedness workshop to help charities and community groups prepare for the colder months. This year, the workshop was organised alongside the London Boroughs Faiths Network. With speakers from the Met Office, UK Health Security Agency, Age UK London, British Red Cross, Greater London Authority and more, you can watch the presentation and access additional resources here.   

LCEP also has a bank of cold weather resources, from Cold Health Alerts to supporting vulnerable people, on their Climate Hub. 

We’d like to once again share the Met Office’s WeatherReady bank of articles dedicated to specific potential issues arising from severe weather, including what to do in a flood and how to get your home and property winter ready.   

Additionally, the GLA also has a Cost of Living Hub, which contains helpful information around managing increases in fuel costs, family childcare and food support, and much more. 

N10 GAS OUTAGE RESPONSE 

Earlier this month a gas outage in the N10 postcode area happened, affecting just over 3000 properties. Below you will find a summary of the response carried out by Cadent Gas, LCEP partners and British Red Cross. With over 500 customers on their priority service register identified within the outage area, Cadent Gas, working alongside Affinity Water, completed initial door-knocking of residents to distribute practical items and welfare checks.

The voluntary, community and faith sectors supported the response with ongoing welfare checks and return visits door-to-door of affected households. The Freehold Community Centre was set up by Cadent as the operations hub and welfare point for residents.

Voluntary, community and faith partners were present from Monday 13th until Friday 24th January covering two shifts daily (with minor gaps) from 0900-1500 and then 1500-2000.

We would like to thank partners involved, including British Red Cross, RE:ACT Disaster Response, Muswell Hill Synagogue, SGI-UK Buddhists, Crouch End Chavurah, and the London Boroughs Faiths Network.  

For more information, see here. 

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THE MAYOR’S LOVED & WANTED CAMPAIGN 

On Friday 14th February, the Mayor of London will be launching his Loved and Wanted campaign. The past year has been a difficult one with national and global events impacting many Londoners. The Loved and Wanted campaign has been developed to reaffirm our city’s values of diversity, unity and inclusion, and to show all communities that London is, and always will be, a place where everyone is welcome. This week we are reaching out to trusted partners in the Resilience sector to request your support in getting the message into every corner of the city.  

We can provide you with window stickers (see image below) to demonstrate that your organisation is a welcoming space, postcards that can be used to send positive messages and can be distributed at workshops and events, or digital assets that can be shared on your social media channels.

If you would like to request any of these materials, please fill out this form and our Marketing team will arrange delivery free of charge: https://forms.office.com/e/xvrNNXDu1k 

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BRITISH RED CROSS’ FLOOD RISK REPORT 

British Red Cross has published a new report Vulnerability and Resilience; Public awareness and perceptions of flood risk in the UK. The findings reveal public experiences and attitudes towards flooding, including perceptions of risk, early warning services, preparedness, the impact of flooding and the availability of support.  

Key insights include:  

  • Two thirds of UK adults believe that flooding is getting worse in the UK,   
  • 1 in 6 people have experienced flooding, rising to 1 in 5 living in the most deprived areas,  
  • 1 in 8 people report that they are uninsured against flooding, rising to 24% of people in the most deprived areas,  
  • Only 1 in 5 who have experienced flooding have taken steps to adapt their home for flooding  
  • Just 9% from the lowest income households are signed up to receive flood warnings, compared to 31% of the highest income households  

 You can read the full report here.  

THE MET OFFICE TRAINING

Following the success of last year, The Met Office will be running a series of training courses for community partners. These courses include information on the Met Office’s products and services, understanding of summer weather hazards, and on climate change risks.

Attached to this email is the prospectus for the courses. You can also visit the Met Office’s website.  

GREAT MENTAL HEALTH DAY 2025  

Friday 31 January 2025 is Great Mental Health Day, an awareness day with the aim of getting Londoners talking about their mental health and, importantly, raise awareness about the support and services that are available all year round. 

How you can get involved with Great Mental Health Day: 

  • Use the day to promote the local services and support available for Londoners. In previous years, the use of #GreatMentalHealth across social media by local services and organisations has allowed Londoners to find out more about the support available to them.   
  • Signpost to free online training offers and resources. We want to encourage Londoners to access a range of free training and support offers available to them. You can access these via the Thrive LDN website and we've collated key resources into one place.   

To mark the day, Good Thinking, London’s free digital wellbeing service are also hosting a webinar to raise awareness about the wide range of free, online resources available to support Londoners in looking after their own mental health and wellbeing. You can find out more and register for the event here.   

GET IN TOUCH   

Don’t forget that from the next edition, we’ll be sending this email via another platform, you can sign-up or share with your audiences to make sure you receive the latest in resilience news and activities here. If you have a story you want to share, or you just want to connect we would love to hear from you. Please email us on CityResilience@london.gov.uk  

You can find our latest updates through our social media channels. We have both an X account X account to @LDN_Resilience and BlueSky, @ldnresilience.bsky.social, which you can find here.   

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