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On Friday 30th July the Continuity Forum was delighted to support a Metropolitan Police initiative organised by the Camden Division aimed at providing practical advice and guidance to local businesses and organisations across their area to help combat terrorist threat and boost community continuity and resilience. 

The event was held at the Holiday Inn Bloomsbury near Russell Square, yards from the scene of the Russell Square Bombing on 7/7. 

Nine well attended presentations were held through the day covering a diverse range of Continuity and Security topics.  The Metropolitan Police and its  Counter Terrorism Command provided great information on training available through Operation Fairway scheme and Ordnance Disposal experts explained their work.

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In a few weeks we'll be running our new “Commanding the Crisis” workshop in London, it's on 29 June for those of you that have missed the notices, and I think it is only fair to share what I suppose is a little concern. It is the title that worries me.

Now as a catchy marketing slogan it works, no doubt about that, but business continuity management shouldn't really have an undue focus on marketing slogans. When we were deciding on the name and the options were presented I immediately homed in on “Commanding the Crisis” as the right choice. The problem I have had ever since though is that I don't want to mislead anyone.

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On May 18th we took over the Churchill War rooms in Westminster for our Managing Risk event.    Many who have attended other events will have become familiar with our patronage of the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth,  but for the first time we used the refurbished World War Two  War Rooms, located underneath the Treasury building in Whitehall.

Have you got something on your mind?

Would you like to share it?

Well here is your chance, the Continuity Forum would like to interview you to find out exactly what's on your mind? Now obviously your views on the election or the X factor may be important to you, but that's not what we want to chat about. We're keen to find out your thoughts across a range of Business Continuity, Risk and Security issues.

It's always a little nerve wracking when fairly big changes come along, but despite my doubts it appears as though the migration and virtually complete rebuild of our website has gone remarkably smoothly. Doubtless there remain a few broken links that we have yet to discover and we are still working our way through various page module updates.

We'll be using our new systems to give you a swishy jobs listing service. 

If you are looking for your next position or need to find the right person quickly then just click through to the Continuity Forums  jobs pages. 

If you are an employer you can submit jobs and contracts to our service directly by mailing details to us at info@continuityforum.org

If you are an agency or are regularly recruiting we can give your own access pages to post vacancies directly saving you time and getting your job listings in front of the best BC professionals available faster than your competitors. To find out more on how to use the Continuity Forum Jobs service please contact us directly.

Not a particularly salubrious entrance, but this is the way into one of the most important places in Britain, or at least Britain 70 years ago. 

Back then the risks were clear cut, today the world is very very different and the complexity challenges our ability to plan and cope with the threats that face us, our organisations and communities. 

On the 18th May the Continuity Forum will be holding a special Risk & Security Planning seminar following on from the Think Tank Session held in March.

The War Rooms you will be pleased to hear have of course been fully upgraded to modern standards. We hope you'll be able to join us. 

As you can see we have been busy and this new site is the second major site upgrade we have been through. 

We have ported over a lot of our older content, but the site site is really more focused on some of the other developments we have planned and in some cases already developed.