Resilience can have many meanings. In general, it is about having coping skills in times of adversity, and having some capacity to handle the unexpected as well as everyday life. To improve our resilience, we can work on being better prepared so that we respond well and experience less stress in emergencies. The Resilience Directory aims to help us become more connected and organised as a community and is a first step for our community resilience plan. The directory identifies assets in the community such as those with equipment e.g. 4x4 vehicles, snow ploughs, warm homes when there is a power cut, and first aid training. The directory also gives people an opportunity to make their needs known. Although these are hard to predict and depend on the event, examples are: help with obtaining medication or food, snow or tree clearance, sandbag storage in preparedness for flooding.

The current Eskdalemuir Community Resilience Directory can be downloaded here -