Kent Fire and Rescue Service
Rural Plan

Community resilience is the ability of a group of people living in the same area to work together to prepare for, respond to, and recover from, challenges or emergencies. These challenges can be natural disasters like floods or storms, or human-caused events like economic downturns or pandemics.

What we do to support community resilience:

Villages across Kent and Medway are encouraged to complete emergency plans, which identify volunteers, resources and key partners who may be able to offer support.

This work is co-ordinated by the Kent and Medway Resilience Forum (KMRF), which brings together emergency services, local authorities and other key partners like water companies and the Environment Agency. We support the KMRF and KALC (Kent Association of Local Councils) to build community resilience. 

New actions to deliver our plan:

• Develop new partnerships with rural groups to better understand the risks facing people living and working in villages and small towns and helping to put plans in place to address the risks.