Weathering the Storm How to Climate Proof your Business and Supplier Contracts

Start date: 21/05/2014
Cost: Follow Link to Reserve Place

A Workshop for the Automotive Supply Chain in Cheshire and Warrington

Wednesday 21st May 2014
8 am – 10 am, Registration & Refreshments from 7.45am
Vauxhall Sports & Social Club, Rivacre Road, Ellesmere Port, CH66 1NJ

The Automotive Sector and its supply chain is one of the most important industries in Cheshire & Warrington. Like other businesses, the sector is increasingly being affected by severe weather events such as flooding, high winds, ice & snow and disruption to power supplies and transport links. Whilst most large businesses have measures in place to deal with these events, it is well recognised that smaller businesses are far less likely to have taken steps to improve their climate resilience. The insurance industry has found that 80% of businesses affected by a major incident either never re-open or close within 18 months.

To assist businesses in understanding, preparing for and recovering from climate impacts and protecting their supplier contracts, the Cheshire & Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has commissioned a series of support measures. This workshop will introduce the background work that has been carried out and will help businesses to understand the impacts of severe weather events, to put plans in place to become more resilient and to develop business continuity procedures through a “Business Resilient Health Check”.

A new document “Weathering the Storm” will also be launched. This has been produced specifically for Cheshire & Warrington and aimed at helping smaller businesses to take action to protect themselves and their supplier contracts against climate impacts.

Further support will be available later in the project and future funding may be available for sites and businesses to invest in resilience measures. We would like to hear from you what types of support would be most useful to yourselves.

You can reserve a place online at: http://automotiveresilience.eventbrite.com

Or RSVP to gill.fenna@quantumst.co.uk with your name, organisation and any dietary requests

Link to Event Poster:- Weathering the Storm – Automotive Sector Invitation