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Emergency Planning, Business Continuity & 24/7 Incident Support UK | Applied Resilience

Built for complexity. Trusted in crisis.

We were the first Public Service Mutual (PSM) in the UK to deliver dedicated resilience services—and ten years on, we’ve built one of the most experienced, hands-on teams in the sector. We’ve supported over a dozen major incident responses, helped shape resilience strategy across the UK, and delivered outcomes that stand up to real-world pressure and scrutiny.

We currently work with a number of central government bodies in the resilience and emergency planning space and act as the fully outsourced emergency planning function for eleven local authorities across England.

As a PSM, we’re employee-led and mission-driven—combining public service values with innovation, flexibility, and impact. Our team works daily across emergency planning, business continuity, and incident response. We don’t just understand resilience—we deliver it.

Whether you’re facing disruption, planning ahead, or under pressure to improve, we help you navigate crisis, ensure continuity, and lead with confidence.

Our services

Emergency Planning, Business Continuity & 24/7 Incident Support UK | Applied Resilience

Local Authorities

Helping Local Authorities meet their legal duties, strengthen emergency and continuity plans, and support confident leadership—from Duty Officer to Chief Executive. We are currently supporting councils through the Surrey Local Government Reorganisation process, helping organisations maintain statutory compliance through transition and ensuring successor authorities are safe and legal from day 1.

Emergency Planning, Business Continuity & 24/7 Incident Support UK | Applied Resilience

NHS & Healthcare

Partnering with health systems to deliver compliant, confident preparedness across planning, continuity, on-call support and EPRR assurance.

Emergency Planning, Business Continuity & 24/7 Incident Support UK | Applied Resilience

Local Resilience Forums

Supporting LRFs with strategy, exercising, peer review and governance—helping to embed JESIP, MAGIC principles and multi-agency effectiveness.

Emergency Planning, Business Continuity & 24/7 Incident Support UK | Applied Resilience

Financial & Industry

Helping critical industries, fintech, and private sector boards build resilience they can trust—through red teaming, board training and assurance.

Emergency Planning, Business Continuity & 24/7 Incident Support UK | Applied Resilience

24/7 Retained Incident Support

When a major incident occurs — at any hour, on any day — your organisation needs immediate access to experienced incident judgement. From the first call through triage and escalation, to strategic (Gold) and tactical (Silver) advisory support from practitioners with direct major incident experience. Confidential, always-on, and integrated into your existing arrangements.

Emergency Planning, Business Continuity & 24/7 Incident Support UK | Applied Resilience

Training & Exercising

Bespoke training and exercising programmes designed around your organisation's specific risks, plans, and statutory obligations — delivered by practitioners who continue to manage live incidents right now. Tabletop exercises through to Tier 1 multi-agency simulations. Strategic (Gold) and Tactical (Silver) command training. Nationally recognised trainers. 99% of attendees agree our sessions are a good use of their time.

Emergency Planning, Business Continuity & 24/7 Incident Support UK | Applied Resilience

Specialist Services

Independent challenge and expert assurance for organisations that need to know their resilience arrangements will hold under real pressure. Red-teaming, stress testing, organisational health checks, independent scrutiny, and crisis leadership assessment — delivered by practitioners with direct operational experience of what failure looks like and how to manage it.

Emergency Planning, Business Continuity & 24/7 Incident Support UK | Applied Resilience

Fully Outsourced Resilience Partnership

For organisations that want a single partner to manage their entire resilience function — emergency planning, business continuity, training and exercising, active LRF representation, and 24/7 retained incident support — under one flexible, scalable partnership. Currently operating as the fully outsourced emergency planning function for eleven local authorities across England.

What our clients say

"Working with Applied Resilience provides all of us at Elmbridge with peace of mind when it comes to Emergency Planning and Business Continuity. By working with AR we have access to continuity of service 24/7…

Head of Performance, Borough Council

"Applied Resilience exemplifies the very best of public/private partnerships. Over the years, their unique model as the UK’s first public service mutual delivering 24/7 emergency planning has proven invaluable to us at RBBC – whether…

Strategic Head of Organisation & Transformation, Borough Council

"Applied Resilience have become a much-valued partner to Worcestershire County Council, both within the county and the wider West Mercia LRF area. Nick and his team are exceptionally knowledgeable and skilled and bring a wealth…

Emergency Planning & Business Continuity Manager, County Council

"The training was highly engaging and directly relevant to my role. I left feeling much more confident in applying the skills I learned." "I’d highly recommend this training to my colleagues. It was well-structured, practical,…

Arqiva, Arqiva

“Applied Resilience are just brilliant! Their extensive expertise is applied in a practical, pragmatic and human way. We are in such better shape now than we were. Definitely value for money, there’s no way…

Chief Executive, Borough Council

“Fabulous training, really engaging trainers, great examples – would definitely recommend” “It was the best emergency planning session I have ever had. It was informative and engaging” “Fantastic trainers, incredibly knowledgeable, experienced and engaging. Best EPRR training…

On Call Directors & Managers, Integrated Care Board

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