UK Resilience Academy

02/11/2026

🎪 Plan Safely. Manage Crowds. Deliver Confident Events.

Crowd safety is a shared responsibility, and effective planning is the key to preventing harm.

Join us for Introduction to Crowd Safety Management at the UK Resilience Academy on 30th Nov – 1st Dec 2026.

This two-day, face-to-face workshop is led by experienced practitioners and gives you a practical grounding in:
✅ Key legislation and guidance
✅ Risk management and crowd analysis
✅ Building a proportionate crowd safety plan
✅ Emergency and contingency planning
✅ The roles of partners and stakeholders

You'll leave with the tools to assess risk, plan with confidence and coordinate effectively with partners.

Ideal for: local authority officers, event organisers, venue managers, and emergency services and safety partners.

📍 Book your place: https://ow.ly/z54R5100uEe

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29/10/2026

Resilience isn’t a plan. It’s a capability. 🛡️

Resilient organisations align leadership, governance, risk management and a culture of continuous learning.

At the UK Resilience Academy, our Organisational Resilience courses help you turn that thinking into practice through interactive e-learning, real-world case studies and facilitated workshops.

Start planning your 2027 learning now.

📚 Business Continuity
Foundation: https://ow.ly/LqUu50ZYnG3
Practitioner: https://ow.ly/TmmA50ZYnFZ
Leader: https://ow.ly/1k7G50ZYnFV

🔐 Cyber Resilience
Foundation: https://ow.ly/IWAG50ZYnFW
Practitioner: https://ow.ly/uM6Q50ZYnFY
Leader: https://ow.ly/fPVs50ZYnG0
Leader (London): https://ow.ly/Hj9l50ZYnG4

🏢 Building Organisational Resilience (Practitioner level)
https://ow.ly/LAPo50ZYnFX

🎓 The BCI Good Practice Guidelines (CBCI)
In person: https://ow.ly/T1Rz50ZYnG2
Online classroom: https://ow.ly/itGu50ZYnFU

From foundation to expert level, there's a course for you.

🤔 📏We can also build bespoke training, exercising and advisory packages for your organisation.
👉 Find out more: https://ow.ly/T4mb50ZYnG5

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28/10/2026

🔐 October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, this year's theme is "Don't Make It Easy for Them."

The campaign, led by the National Cybersecurity Alliance, reminds us that staying safe online isn't about one perfect decision. It's about small habits, repeated consistently, that make life harder for cybercriminals. Their four starting points:
✔️ Use strong passwords and a password manager
✔️ Turn on multifactor authentication
✔️ Recognise and report scams
✔️ Update your software

Free resources to help you get started 👇
📺 Missed the Virtual Kick-off? Watch the recording: https://ow.ly/T32W50ZYnq0
🏛️ NCSC Cyber Security Toolkit for Boards, with briefing packs and questions to ask at your next board meeting: https://ow.ly/99JG50ZYnpX
🔎Interested in what the research says? Check out the National Cybersecurity Alliance Report 'Oh Behave! Cybersecurity Attitudes and Behaviors Report: 2021–2025': https://ow.ly/vM6k50ZYnpZ
🎯 NCSC Exercise in a Box, a free tool for practising your response to ransomware, phishing and supply chain scenarios: https://ow.ly/RuNU50ZYnq1
🎣 Spotted something suspicious? Report scam messages and websites to the NCSC: https://ow.ly/rfiJ50ZYnq2

Ready to go further?
Awareness is the first step. Resilience means being able to anticipate, withstand, respond to and recover from a cyber incident.

The UK Resilience Academy's Cyber Resilience Learning Pathway builds capability progressively, whatever your role:
1️⃣ Foundation (Stage 1): build your awareness
2️⃣ Practitioner (Stage 2): apply it in practice
3️⃣ Leader (Stage 3): lead your organisation's response and resilience

We're proud to be an NCSC Assured Service Provider.

👉 Explore the pathway: https://ow.ly/Ykrr50ZYnpY

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27/10/2026

📋 Are your emergency plans usable, defensible and based on real operational capacity?

Our Developing Preparedness Arrangements course takes you from defining capabilities based on reasonable worst case scenarios through to creating arrangements and plans that stand up in practice.

Over 2 days of face-to-face training, you will:
✅ Understand the legal, professional and organisational requirements for emergency arrangements
✅ Apply risk, consequence and needs analysis to set planning assumptions
✅ Learn good practice in documenting agreements, procedures, protocols and decision controls
✅ Plan how arrangements are communicated, trained, tested and reviewed

✔️ Aligned to the National Occupational Standards and the Emergency Planning National Resilience Standard.

📅 Find out more and book your place: https://ow.ly/NEum50ZY3Oj

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26/10/2026

🌐 If your website went dark tomorrow, would you know how to keep your most important services running?

Last week, websites across Europe and beyond were taken offline as organisations responded to critical vulnerabilities in PHP. Pulling a service offline can be the right call, but it raises a harder question: how do you keep essential services going when the technology you depend on is unavailable?

In our latest article, Bhavick Valand, Resilience Capability Lead for Organisational Resilience, explains why cyber resilience is about far more than technology. It's about people, priorities and decisions.

💡 Key questions to ask your organisation:
✅ Which services would have the greatest impact if disrupted?
✅ Do we understand our dependencies on suppliers, software and platforms?
✅ Can we continue critical activities if our usual systems are down?
✅ Have we tested our contingency arrangements, including alternative communications?
✅ Do our people know who decides what, and when to escalate?

The article also links this to the Government's updated Be Ready campaign, launched on 22 October, a timely reminder that preparedness works best before disruption, at home and at work.

Start the conversation. Test your plans. Take action before disruption makes the decisions for you.

📖 Read the article: https://ow.ly/suU35100yZf

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When Websites Go Dark - Cyber Resilience Starts Before Disruption - UK Resilience Academy

22/10/2026

Our 2027 course schedule is now open for booking! 📅

Whether you're building your career in resilience or strengthening your organisation's preparedness, the UK Resilience Academy has a course to help you do it.

Our 2027 programme covers:

🏢 Organisational Resilience: including Business Continuity, Resilient Leadership & Culture and Resilience Governance
🚨 Crisis & Incident Management: from awareness-level online courses to practitioner-level training
🛡️ Preparedness: building a culture of readiness and learning from every experience
🎪 Crowd & Events Safety: from event safety management to chairing Safety Advisory Groups

Explore a learning method that suits you, with e-learning and workshops, online classrooms and in-person sessions. Our courses are interactive, practical and designed to challenge you in a supportive way.

👉 Explore the full course list and book your place: https://ow.ly/8weF50ZWhX4

Plan your learning for the year ahead 🎓

21/10/2026

UKRA Youth Engagement Programme - Free accessible e-learning Course

💪Resilience Ready: Skills for Life, Learning & Work 🌍

Our new Youth Resilience e-learning course is now live, part of the UK Resilience Academy's Youth Engagement Programme.

This interactive module introduces the fundamentals of resilience: how individuals, communities and organisations prepare for, respond to and recover from disruption, from severe weather to cyber incidents.

✅ No prior knowledge or experience needed
✅ Complete it in your own time
✅ Complements studies in citizenship, public service and social responsibility
✅ A first look at the careers and pathways in resilience and public service

Teachers, college tutors and youth group leaders: this is a great way to introduce your students to a sector many young people haven't yet seen.

👉 Start the course: https://ow.ly/RMsJ50ZWh8V
👉 Find out more about the programme: https://ow.ly/lYlt50ZWh8T

Want to bring a youth engagement day to your school, college or group? Get in touch via our enquiry form using the web page link above ☝️

19/10/2026

Ready to take the next step in your Business Continuity career? 🚀

The BCI Good Practice Guidelines (CBCI) Course is your route to a globally recognised certification and a stronger foundation in organisational resilience.

Aligned with the BCI's Good Practice Guidelines 7.0 and relevant ISO standards, this three-day course covers:

✅ All six Professional Practices, from Establishing a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS), Embracing Business Continuity and Analysis to Solutions Design, Enabling Solutions and Validation
✅ Practical examples and interactive learning
✅ Preparation for the CBCI exam (optional online exam available at additional cost)

What you'll gain:
🎓 A pathway to the CBCI certificate and digital badge
🌍 A first step towards AMBCI or MBCI membership
📘 A digital copy of the BCI Good Practice Guidelines 7.0
💼 The confidence to contribute effectively to resilience in your organisation

Perfect for BC practitioners looking to formalise their expertise, gain certification and advance their careers.

👉 Find out more and book your place: https://ow.ly/Xs5p50ZWlpe
🪜Part of our Business Continuity Learning Pathway: https://ow.ly/OCYg50ZWlpc

15/10/2026

National resilience starts with people.

At the UK Resilience Academy, our mission is to give resilience leaders across the UK the skills, tools and connections they need for the moments that matter.

But building a more resilient country is not just about preparing today’s leaders. It is also about investing in the next generation.

🔹 Building our resilience workforce. From businesses and civil society to local responders and central government, we need the skills and capabilities to prepare for, respond to and recover from disruption. That means making resilience a more accessible profession, showing young people the breadth of career paths available and the difference their skills, expertise and ambitions can make.

🔹 Building a resilient society. We need individuals, families and communities to understand the practical steps they can take to prepare for disruption, look out for one another and support those who may need additional help. Young people can be powerful catalysts for these conversations at home, among friends and across their communities, both online and offline.

That is why days like this week’s UKRA Youth Engagement Day matter.

Through practical sessions and conversations with experts, students from sixth forms and undergraduate studies explored how government, emergency responders, communities and organisations prepare for disruption. They delved into problem-solving, communication and decision-making skills, building confidence in the face of uncertainty, and discovering what preparedness means in everyday life. And hopefully, some will leave inspired to discover future careers in resilience, emergency management or humanitarian work.

We are grateful to our brilliant partners M&C Saatchi, British Red Cross, the Cabinet Office and the Institute for Civil Protection for helping bring these ideas to life.

Our message to participants was simple: whatever your interests, there is a place for you in building a more resilient UK.

Building resilience starts with one action, which leads to another a conversation, a new skill, a plan at home or an idea that inspires a future career. This week we supported some young people take that first step.

Next year, we will build on this work by growing our youth engagement into a full programme.

A more resilient future starts with the people we empower today.

Find out more about our Youth Engagement Programme here: https://ow.ly/wHWo50ZXW44

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15/10/2026

When things go wrong, the people in the room make the difference. 🚨

Whether it's a systems outage, a cyberattack or a major emergency, effective crisis and incident management comes down to clear plans, defined roles and teams who have practised under pressure.

At the UK Resilience Academy, our Crisis & Incident Management courses help you build that capability, from awareness-level e-learning to hands-on workshops and in-person training:

✅ Strategic Crisis Leader (Gold) and Tactical Crisis Leader (Silver)
✅ Strategic and Tactical Multi-Agency Incident Response (including Lite options)
✅ Chairing Multi-Agency Incident Meetings
✅ Leading and Coordinating Recovery Programmes
✅ Multi-Agency Media and Communications
✅ Working as a Loggist
✅ Fundamentals of Crisis Management and Fundamentals of Multi-Agency Incident Response

We can also tailor training and exercising to your organisation's needs.

👉 Find the right course for you: https://ow.ly/4Fci50ZWbev

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