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In the final part of our Mental Health Awareness Week series, Charlotte, Workforce Health and Wellbeing Lead, and Mental Health First Aider at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, tells us how good habits can make a big difference to our mental health.

As Head of the Leicester School of Nursing and Midwifery based at De Montfort University and a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Gary explains how 'controlling the controllables' and talking to others can help us to cope in a volatile world.

Looking after our mental health helps us build personal resilience and cope with whatever life throws at us. To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Officer Beckie introduces 'five ways to wellbeing' that can benefit us all...

We asked Alice, Delivery Manager for our Risk Ready Communities programme, what we can all do to turn our communities into 'risk ready' communities...

Our community resilience experts have been out and about talking to people about our Risk Ready Communities programme - so why not invite us to your next community event?

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Resilience Officer James Butler explains how his career has taken him from global crises to local resilience – and the key ingredients we all need to make sure our communities are ‘risk ready’.

Communities across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) experienced their second wettest February on record in 2026 with 125.5mm of rain – making it the wettest since 1977*.

When Mark and Sharon moved into their dream home in Leicestershire, they had no idea what lay ahead. In 13 months, their home was flooded twice – even though the property had no previous history of flooding.
The couple, who’ve since installed £15,000 of flood defences, tell their story…

How do we know that Cleo the dog is 'risk ready'?
Because she's one of more than 600 animals cared for every year by the RSPCA Woodside animal centre in Leicester, one of the businesses to take part in our free Risk Ready Businesses project.