London Resilience Newsletter - June 2025
Dear Partners,
Welcome to the June 2025 edition of the London Resilience Newsletter. This monthly newsletter provides updates, support and advice on building resilience in your communities from London Resilience and our partners.
This month saw the tragic Air India flight crash and the escalated conflict between Israel and Iran. These international incidents will have affected communities and families in London. Thrive LDN have free trauma-informed practice resources available online.
As you will no doubt be aware, London Climate Action Week took place last week, on 21st-29th June. London Resilience took part in discussing the prominent issues facing communities across the capital. Michele Vianello, our Resilience Manager for Prevention, spoke at the Co-creating the climate resilient city: stories from the frontlines event and talked about how we are involving communities in building resilience.
Our Head of Strategy, Prevention, and Community Resilience, Kristen Guida, attended the European Urban Resilience Forum in Rotterdam and took part in a panel on Building Urban Resilience in an Era of Polcycrisis: The Holistic Agenda alongside other experts from the resilience world.
We post regularly on BlueSky, so please follow us for the latest news, events and launches.
Help communities stay safe in the heat
As the second heatwave that we’ve experienced so far this year is upon us, and with others likely to lie just over the horizon, we wanted to make you aware of the resources available to support communities and stakeholders and where to find them.
An Amber Heat-Health Alert has been called for London, lasting (at time of writing) until Wednesday 2nd July at 9am.
To help yourself and your community, you can:
Check in on older people & those with a health or mental health condition
Use and promote our Cool Spaces map
Drink plenty of water and stay hydrated
Avoid being out in the sun from 11am - 3pm
Resources for your community
The following are various resource pages, guides and toolkits that you can use during this Amber Heat-Health Alert:
- Greater London Authority’s guidance
- UK Health Security Agency’s Hot Weather Toolkit
- The UK Health Security Agency’s Heat-Health Alert (HHA) system
- The Met Office’s #WeatherReady campaign
- Voluntary and community sector action card
- Beat the Heat hot weather advice
- Infographic and social media images which you can find here
- Sign-posting and resources from the VCS Emergencies Partnership
- Resources from British Red Cross
London Resilience Equalities Partnership
Protection Approaches is working with London Resilience to develop a new Equalities Partnership within the London Resilience Forum (LRF). The Partnership will provide a space for equity-focused and equality-led organisations to influence how London plans for and responds to emergencies — centring the needs and perspectives of marginalised communities.
If your organisation supports marginalised communities or works with/for individuals with protected characteristics under the Equality Act, Protection Approaches want to hear from you on what the Equalities Partnership should look like and what it should do. You can engage with this process and feed in your perspectives in a variety of ways:
You can get involved by:
Completing a short questionnaire
Booking a conversation with the team: email farida.mostafa@protectionapproaches.org
Sharing your thoughts via email: farida.mostafa@protectionapproaches.org
Community Summer Preparedness Workshop 2025
On Tuesday 10th June, the London Communities Emergencies Partnership (LCEP) and the London Boroughs Faiths Network hosted a summer preparedness workshop. Over 60 participants joined to listen to a range of experts including the Met Office, UK Health Security Agency, London Fire Brigade and others.
You can find all the recordings here.
If you are a community, faith or voluntary sector group, make sure you are signed up for the next LCEP quarterly meeting on Thursday 31st July at 10am-11.30am.
Northeast London Faith Training – Highlights
Throughout June, the London Borough Faiths Network has been delivering Faith and Community Resilience Training sessions in North East London, engaging with over 27 local faith leaders from Redbridge, Barking & Dagenham and Havering.
These sessions aimed to strengthen preparedness and response capacity within faith and community groups.
Highlights from the training included:
- A powerful testimony from a faith leader who shared, “After this training, I feel a much greater responsibility to act and support my community.”
- Interactive discussions on building trust with statutory partners and improving communication channels during crises.
- A spotlight on local initiatives, including Redbridge’s Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) campaign, #ThisHasToStop, which highlights the role of faith leaders in promoting safety and supporting survivors.
Flood Advice for Businesses and further resources
See https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2025/met-office-launches-search-for-new-storm-names for more information.
Met Office Community Resilience Training
Community responders and the voluntary sector play a crucial role in the resilience of the UK. Their training prospectus is aimed at those who work or volunteer in the local community to make them more resilient to severe weather events. The Met Office recently launched their July to December Community Resilience Online Training Prospectus. Find out more below.
Access free, online trauma-informed practice training
Thousands of people working in communities across London and beyond are accessing free, comprehensive trauma-informed practice training.
Since launching in February 2023, the ‘Gift of Reconnection’ training series, supported and funded by the Mayor of London, have accumulated more than 40,000 views. The training, led by Dr Nicola Lester, has particularly supported schools and educators, community and voluntary organisations, police forces, NHS professionals, and local authorities.
Available for free through the Thrive LDN website and YouTube, the training comprises bronze, silver, and gold level modules, designed for anyone supporting others, regardless of prior expertise. You can find out everything you need to know about Thrive LDN’s Gift of Reconnection trauma informed practice training on their website.
Understanding Martyn’s Law
The Home Office has released a short video designed to educate viewers on the scope and requirements of the new Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act, known as Martyn’s Law.
This easy-to-follow animation is intended to help those responsible for premises and events understand the conditions of the Act and what it will involve should they fall into scope.
Read more and watch the video at https://matomo.protectuk.police.uk/a74e7a
VCS Partnership in Practice: Communications in emergencies – Scenario exercise
Tuesday 15th July – 10:00am-12:00pm
As well as supporting you to run an exercise in house, the Emergencies Partnership are still committed to the benefits of cross-organisation exercising and increasing your understanding of how other partners across the sector operate and the capabilities they have to support and respond in emergencies.
Download the London Community Resilience Toolkit
The London Community Resilience Toolkit has been designed to help London’s communities get started on their community resilience journey.
The toolkit offers practical information and guidance to help communities better prepare for and respond to future challenges and emergencies. Training workshops and support for the toolkit will be announced soon.
Get in touch
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 and information through our social media channels. We have both an X account @LDN_Resilience and BlueSky, @ldnresilience.bsky.social, which you can find here.
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Many thanks,
Cliff, Millie, Michele, Kristen and Louisa