Community resilience

Convenience foods have been around a lot longer than we might imagine. By their nature they reflect work practices of a given time as they’ve always been about keeping productivity going. As a barometer of resilience, there is much that convenience foods can tell us.

Resilience First was privileged recently to have NATO’s former Deputy Assistant Secretary General, Dr Jamie Shea, speak at one of our regular Leader’s Forums. He gave us his perspectives on the NATO approach to the Russia/Ukraine conflict and shared with us the four key lessons we are learning from it.

When any emergency strikes at the heart of society, we often need ways of getting information out to as many people as possible. We saw this during recent pandemic lockdowns, and it’s very evident again with the UK’s first ever red heat warning and temperatures expected to approach 40C in southern Britain and across much of western Europe in the coming days.

With 75% of us projected to live in cities by 2050 we better get used to the challenges that city life can bring. And getting a sustainable supply of healthy, nutritious and convenient food to everyone is going to be one of those challenges.

Resilience First, the world’s largest global business network with a mission to advance resilience best practice, is delighted to announce a partnership with the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce (GMCC).

The Kedarnath tragedy in Uttarakhand (India) in mid-2013 highlights lessons around resilience which are still pertinent today. Savin Bansal, as Master's student at UCL, reviews some of those lessons and the need not just for better early warning systems but also the people to put the warnings into practical effect.

How can we help improve resilience of young people, knowing that they will become the leaders of tomorrow and wanting the skills and resolve to rise to new challenges. Here are some pointers that may help, pointers that identify the key ingredients of what it takes to be resilient.

A new global non-profit consortium, Resilience Rising, is launching this month.  Its purpose is to enable and create a safe, resilient, and sustainable future for all. 

A Ministerial statement published on 11 January gives the government's position on the outcome of the consultation exercise around any potential 'Protect Duty' legislation to improve security measures that could protect the public from terrorist attacks. Resilience First has been very supportive of the initiative since the beginning and reviews the latest response.

A report conducted for the UK Ministry of Defence looks at how concepts of societal resilience vary across different countries and identifies good practices on how other nations promote societal resilience that might be adapted to the UK context.