Community Resilience

Information about the important role that communities play in a major emergency

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to work with District Councils, Town and Parish Councils, and Neighbourhood Management areas to improve community resilience.

Click the man to listen to a step by step guide to create your own Community Resilience Plan

It is possible that future emergencies may occur in the county, where an emergency response to some communities may be delayed, as occurred during the flooding where communities became isolated. The  Community Emergency Plan [361kb] [Opens in New Window] has been created as a template to assist communities to develop their own plan and can be adapted to a community's own needs.  See also  Notes for Developing a Community Resilience Plan [93kb] [Opens in New Window]

You can either use the template download provided above, OR
Gloucestershire Rural Community Council - GRCC - with support from Gloucestershire local authorities, have issued a CD Toolkit to make it easy for communities to produce their own community emergency plan. A copy of this CD Toolkit has been sent to every parish council in the county and some other communities too. If you cannot locate your copy you can contact GRCC, use Gloucestershire Rural Community Council - Emergency Planning [Opens in New Window] for details.

Please ask your District Council for any additional support you may need and please keep them informed about what's in your emergency plan. Contacts for districts can be found on the related page below.