Book for Somerset Community Resilience Day 2023 – and tip a winner
The fifth annual Somerset Community Resilience Day is being held at Wincanton Racecourse on Thursday 5 October, 10am to 4pm.
Entrance is FREE, lunch is also FREE, and there is a choice of stimulating talks, workshops, demonstrations and activities.
Attendees also get some good opportunities to chat with other guests about interesting experiences and ideas from towns and villages across Somerset.
The opening speaker will be the new Somerton & Frome MP Sarah Dyke, who is also a Somerset Council representative on the Board of Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA).
Subjects and sessions currently lined up this year include:
- emergency planning
- flooding
- topical case studies from communities
- localised flood warning systems funded by the SRA
- the rights and responsibilities that come with owning a watercourse
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillator training
- throwing life-saying gear with Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service, to help people who have fallen into dangerous waters (a practice session from 2022 is pictured at the top of this page)
Book your free ticket: Somerset Prepared Community Resilience Event 2023 Tickets, Thu 5 Oct 2023 at 10:00 | Eventbrite
Somerset’s Community Resilience Award
On the day there will also be a presentation ceremony for Somerset’s Community Resilience Award.
This Award was launched at last year’s Somerset Community Resilience Day.
Its purpose is to honour individuals or groups in Somerset who have put some real time and effort into making their communities better and stronger.
Tip a winner
If you can think of possible worthy winners for the Community Resilience Award, don’t be shy: it’s quick and easy to put names forward.
The link below will take you a form on the Somerset Prepared website:
Make a nomination for the Somerset Community Resilience Award 2023 (office.com)
The award and the event are both being organised by the Somerset Prepared partnership, which includes Somerset Rivers Authority.