The North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum is a partnership that brings together a range of organisations to prepare, respond to, and recover from any major incident or emergency in York and North Yorkshire.

It includes local emergency service responders - police, fire and ambulance - local authorities, businesses and voluntary organisations such as Community First Yorkshire, York Centre for Voluntary Service and Ready for Anything.

Each agency within the forum is legally required to deliver their own duties as stated in the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. You can find out more about the Act on the Government website.

The forum can provide you with information on how to prepare for an emergency, as well as give you an insight into how local responders work together to minimise the impact on the public, property, environment, and help people and communities recover after adverse events.

The forum has developed the  North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum strategy (pdf / 2 MB) to help us meet new and existing challenges by looking at all the ways in which we can be ready together. The strategy is divided into six resilience themes:

• risk
• responsibility and accountability
• partnerships
• communities
• investment
• skills

These are taken directly from the UK Resilience Framework and are the priority areas that we have determined to be important for building York and North Yorkshire’s resilience.

Contact the North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum

Call the North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum on 0300 131 2131.

We are open:

• Monday 9am to 5pm
• Tuesday 9am to 5pm
• Wednesday 9.30am to 5pm
• Thursday 9am to 5pm
• Friday 9am to 4.30pm

Keeping up to date

Follow these social media accounts for the latest information during emergencies:

• North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum on Twitter
• North Yorkshire Council on Twitter 
• North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service on Twitter
• Environment Agency York and North East on Twitter
• Yorkshire Water on Twitter
• North Yorkshire Police on Twitter
• British Transport Police on Twitter
• Northern Power Grid on Twitter - electricity supplier for North Yorkshire
• Met Office on Twitter
• Highways North East on Twitter
• HM Coastguard on Twitter 

You can keep up to date from the following websites:

• Weather warnings from the Met Office
• Flood warnings from the Environment Agency
• City of York Council
• North Yorkshire Council
• Northern Power
• Yorkshire Water
• National Highways
• Network Rail
• North Yorkshire Police
• North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service