Building Business Resilience

This page brings together content related to our Building Business Resilience project, which aims to support businesses to stay in business whatever the weather. It provides practical guidance, free workshops, case studies, awards and stimulates discussion about how to manage increasingly frequent extreme weather events through business continuity, risk management, health and safety and climate projections. It was commissioned by the Environment Agency (Midlands) and delivered in partnership with Sustainability West Midlands, Staffordshire Business Environment Network, Business in the Community, local authorities, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and businesses who are kindly hosting events.

The project is described here in more detail.

The summary programme of 12 business workshops (Nov 2012 - April 2013) across East and West Midlands can be downloaded here.

Details of the East Midlands Business Resilience Award 2013 with Business in the Community (there is an equivalent West Midlands version). The closing date has now passed.

Follow the commentary and conversation on Twitter via the hashtag #BBRworkshop (also shown on our Home page)

Workshop summaries and highlights (more will be added once the events have taken place)

1. Northampton, 27th November 2012 (Sainsbury's Distribution Centre)

2. Lincoln, 15th January 2013 (Simons Group)

3. Cannock, 22nd January 2013 (Finning Ltd)

4. Stafford, 29th January 2013 (Staffordshire Business Environment Network)

5. Leicester, 31st January 2013 (Severn Trent Water)

6. Cheddleton, nr Leek, 5th February 2013 (F Ball & Co)

7. Nottingham, 7th February 2013 (Boots UK)

8. Lincolnshire Showground, 7th March 2013 (SUSTAIN Lincolnshire)

9. Chesterfield, 12th March 2013 (Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce)

10. Solihull, 14th March 2013 (Birmingham International Airport)

11. Telford, 17th April 2013 (Business Environmental Support Scheme for Telford)

12. Coventry, 25th April 2013 (Severn Trent Water)