A SERIES of events is being held to help prepare the community for emergency situations in Dorset - including floods, cyber security and counter-terrorism incidents.

Dorset Local Resilience Forum (LRF) will be hosting online community resilience awareness raising sessions between March 7 and 11.

The Dorset LRF is a multi-agency partnership made up of local councils, emergency services and NHS organisations; national bodies; utility companies, transport providers, and voluntary and community groups.

The Dorset Prepared Community Resilience Workshop links in and works closely with communities to deliver advice, support and training to help build local resilience to emergencies and incidents.

Following the success of a two-day event held in 2021, this year will see a week-long series of online events and awareness raising activities with partner organisations.

The subjects will include:

* Flooding and the flood warden scheme in Dorset

* Climate change

* Avoiding scams

* Cyber security

* Volunteering in the community

* Counter terrorism

* Community resilience and emergency planning

* Fire safety and safe and well advice

* Utility companies and how they plan for incidents

The events will be a range of live and pre-recorded presentations with question and answer sessions between Monday and Friday, starting at 09:30 am each day.

The schedule will see morning sessions running from 9:30am to 1pm, afternoon sessions running from 2pm to 5pm and an evening session running from 6pm to 8pm.

Nigel Osborne, chairman of the Dorset Local Resilience Forum Community Resilience Group, said: “The Dorset LRF is committed to the ‘whole of society’ approach to community resilience so that individuals, communities, businesses and organisations can all play a meaningful part in building local resilience.

"The workshops are aimed at existing voluntary organisations, community emergency volunteers and anyone interested in getting involved with such activities. They are designed to help you develop local initiatives that enhance resilience to emergencies and incidents.”

To find out more and register your interest, go to dorsetprepared.org.uk/community-resilience-week-march-2022/ and follow the link to Eventbrite. The tickets are free and can be reserved now.

By registering ahead of the sessions, you will get the chance to win a Home Emergency Grab Bag worth £168 (kindly sponsored by Communities Prepared. Terms and conditions apply).

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