Mayor fo London
London Resilience Newsletter - May 2025
Dear Partners,
Welcome to the May 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.
Firstly, the team wanted to acknowledge the awful incident in Liverpool earlier this week and send our thoughts to all those injured or affected. To support those directly impacted National Emergencies Trust, in partnership with the Community Foundation for Merseyside, together with Liverpool City Council and Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services (LCVS), has launched the Liverpool Spirit Appeal. Find out more and donate what you can here.
In London, the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) are working with SAFE by CST to host a free webinar on 10th June for community and faith partners on event security that you can sign up to here.
We post regularly on BlueSky, so please follow us for the latest news, events and launches.
London Business Networks for Resilience and Report launch
This month we launched the report Resilient Business Networks: Exploring the role of business networks in urban resilience. We hosted an online event launching the report and looking into some of these findings on Tuesday 20th May.
This research engaged 102 business networks, groups and leadership teams, representing over 7,000 businesses.
You can download and read the report here
Today, we launched the London Business Networks for Resilience, a new initiative to engage business networks across London, in a whole of society approach to building resilience. Find out more and sign up below.
Help London be ready for the summer – become a Cool Space!
This summer, we invite you to register a Cool Space with us to help us support Londoners cope in hot weather.
If your organisation runs a venue that offers free seating, free drinking water and a temperature lower than outdoors when it’s hot, please fill in our Cool Space registration form. We will review the information and add your venue to our Cool Spaces map designed to help communities better understand heat health risks and take action.
To better understand what your group or organisation can do in case of hot weather, you can refer to the Heat-Health Alert Action Card for communities. Please also consider signing up to the new Heat Health Alerts from the Met Office.
The GLA also publishes a map of known cool spaces, where Londoners can take respite on hot days, which you can find here: https://apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces.
Help reduce the risk of wildfires
London Fire Brigade is highlighting the role everyone has to play to help reduce the risk of grass fires and wildfires, in what could be a hot summer in the capital.
Local authorities and landowners are encouraged to take proactive steps to manage their vegetation and create natural fire breaks, especially where open land backs onto properties. All partners are also encouraged to amplify and deliver safety messaging around the safe use of BBQs, both at home and outdoors, as well as other advice to help prevent grass fires.
The Brigade's summer campaign also highlights the risks of jumping into water and open water swimming. They're urging Londoners to follow their safety advice and have been working with partners to enhance safety near waterways. The Brigade is also reminding the public that throwlines are readily available at numerous locations, providing easy access to lifesaving equipment and enabling quicker rescues.
London Ambulance Service and London’s Air Ambulance pioneer treatment for cardiac arrest patients
For the first time in the UK, cardiac arrest patients in London are being given a better chance of survival thanks to a pioneering new team on the streets of the capital.
London Ambulance Service has worked alongside London’s Air Ambulance and Barts Health NHS Trust to launch the ground-breaking new team known as the Endovascular Cardiac Arrest Team.
London Councils launches guidance for promoting equity through climate action
On 23rd May, London Councils published guidance for London Boroughs to help them promote equity in London through climate action.
The guidance has been produced by City Science, and was produced through engagement with Londoners.
The document provides the London boroughs with recommendations about how to adapt and enhance existing climate change focused policies and practices in order to deliver equitable solutions that benefit all of London’s diverse communities.
Training, Funding and Opportunities:
SAFE Training opportunities
SAFE (Security Advice For Everyone) are running a series of one-hour free security webinars on topics including Event Security, Hate Crime, Online Security and Martyn’s Law.
The programme is aimed at anyone who is vulnerable to, or has been a victim of, hate or violence. It will also benefit anyone who wants to support someone else or learn more about our topics.
Read the full list and register
VCS Emergencies Partnership Network Call – Volunteers Week Takeover
Thursday 5th June – 09:45am-11:00am
To celebrate Volunteers Week 2025, the usual Network Call slot will have a volunteer focused takeover. Robyn Knox, Director of the Emergencies Partnership, will host a panel of guests from across the sector in a webinar style conversation with a specific focus on the role of volunteering in emergencies
VCS Train the Trainer – Scenario Exercising
Wednesday 25th June – 2:00pm-3:30pm
In July 2024 VCS ran a session on train the trainer exercising, designed to give you all the tools to facilitate your own exercise in-house, within your networks or across geographical areas. Following requests, they are repeating this session again, with smaller groups in a workshop format where we will cover the fundamentals of setting up an exercise, design and tailoring of resources and preparing a plan to deliver your exercise.
Please note - places are limited to 25.
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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Cliff, Millie, Michele, Kristen and Louisa