APSE Northern Region - Building Resilient Communities

Free for APSE Northern members

Tuesday 16 December 2025 

Programme

Local authorities play a key role in building community resilience by strengthening a community's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. This is achieved by developing social connections, sharing information, and planning collaboratively. Key strategies need to be adopted including building trust, making information accessible, encouraging participation in local activities, and using local knowledge and resources to plan and act. 

This APSE Northern Online Event is free to attend for APSE Northern region members and brings together a range of expert speakers who will demonstrate how community resilience can be measured, and the presentations will showcase projects and approaches that councils are adopting to build resilient in the community.

Presentations:

A landscape of need: mapping community resilience in England.
Christine Camacho, PhD Fellow ARC-GM, The University of Manchester

Malandry Community Archaeology Dig
Caroline Bird, Community Services Manager (Programme), City of Lincoln Council

Homes for Hedgehogs: Building Brighter Futures Together
David Calland, Apprentice Co-ordinator, Wigan Council

Newcastle’s Climate Change Forum
David Trousdale, Principal Advisor – Climate Change, Newcastle City Council – Winner of Green Cities Initiative award for youth engagement by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations

Tackling economic inactivity
Laure Renault, Pathways to Work Projects and Contracts Manager, Barnsley Metropolitan Council

(Link to Laure's video clip - Finding the right job for me)

Discussed documents and links from the meeting: 

EV chargers presentation

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