Building Business Resilience

Climate East Midlands has launched a survey to find out how resilient businesses in the East Midlands are to extreme weather.

An ABI study revealed that 80% of businesses that do not have an emergency plan in place do not recover from a major incident such as a flood, even where insurance is in place to cover financial losses.

This survey is part of a project to help SMEs in the Midlands become more resilient, as it will provide data from which we can develop free support for SMEs. To do this we need to know:

• if / how your business has been affected by extreme weather in the past
• whether your business is taking any action to become more resilient in the future
• whether you are considering the business opportunities that climate change will bring

Why complete the survey?

• if requested, you will receive the overall results and details of any follow-up support
• it will help you to identify where you are against current good practice
• we will use the survey findings to develop free support for SMEs in the Midlands, and to share examples of good practice.

To access the survey, please click on the link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QMF9Q8G

It will take no longer than 10 minutes to complete.

The survey has been extended to give more businesses the chance to take part, and will now be live until 29th February 2012.
 

This project has been funded by the Environment Agency (Midlands Region) and is being delivered by Climate East Midlands and Sustainability West Midlands. More detail is available in the Projects section.

 

Further information for businesses

Climate East Midlands has published a guide for businesses called "Weathering the storm: saving and making money in a changing climate". The guide is mainly aimed at SMEs, but contains information that will be relevant to many other kinds of organisations. The guide is very accessible and assumes no prior knowledge. Download it from our Resources section.

We have collected many useful resources for businesses into one place in our Adaptation Resource, including publications and tools. Have a browse here.

 

If you have any queries, please contact alex.hopkinson@emcouncils.gov.uk