Birmingham Resilience Team

Latest community meeting update

The Birmingham Communities and Neighbourhoods Resilience Group met on Thursday 4th March 2010, to discuss two innovative and exciting projects that the Birmingham Resilience Team is forging ahead with. Birmingham Community Alert Jan Quigley, Emergency Planning Officer, explained how this new ‘fr More...
Partnership working at its best

On Monday the 1st March (St David’s Day) there was a great display of mutual support when community volunteers, officers and elected members all put their best foot forward and carried out a really successful community litter pick of the River Rea in Frankley. Welcome refreshments were served More...
Birmingham volunteers assist in emergency exercise

Community volunteers from Birmingham assisted in an emergency exercise by playing the part of casualties on Saturday 20th February. The exercise, run by St John Ambulance and West Midlands Fire Service required 40 members of the public to play the part of injured and uninjured survivors following More...
Flood meeting held in Birmingham

A flood meeting was held on Friday 26th February to discuss the arrangements or dealing with flooding in the West Midlands. The West Midland Conurbation has over the past three years suffered from flooding emergencies, as experienced in Witton, June 2007 and areas of South Birmingham in September 20 More...
National Flood Forum Annual Conference

Birmingham residents affected by flooding along with officers from Birmingham City Council attended the National Flood forums’ annual conference on 25th February. Read more about the event by reading Melanie’s blog More...