The Community Hub is a new feature stage within the Collaboration Zone, delivering real stories, frontline skills, and vital insight from those working across voluntary groups, non-profits, and emergency service support teams.

From live demonstrations and bite-sized training, to personal stories and peer learning - these sessions highlight the incredible work happening behind the scenes to support frontline response, community resilience, and recovery.

Community Hub

FOCUSED CONTENT THEMES

Frontline Skills You Can Use

From first aid to bystander intervention and defib demos, learn practical techniques that could help save a life - delivered by the charities and professionals who live it every day.

Animal Heroes & Hidden Support Roles

Explore the roles of police dogs, therapy animals, and the unsung support services that strengthen emergency response. Hear from those working with four-legged team members, and the organisations giving them lifelong care.

Real Stories from Real Rescues

Get inspired by the missions, rescues and moments that mattered. These sessions celebrate the courage and teamwork behind life-saving responses — from coastguard to underground, RNLI to mountain rescue.

Conversations That Stick With You

Honest, personal and sometimes unexpected, these talks offer unique perspectives on mental health, leadership, career change, and fundraising within the emergency services and charity sector

2025 Content Agenda

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09:30
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    Last year, three paramedics brought their boat to The Emergency Services Show before they embarked on an incredible journey where they spent 50 days battling the elements rowing 3000 miles across the …
10:00
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    Can you help someone who isn’t breathing before the emergency services arrive? Learning CPR could save someone’s life, so join us in this bitesize hands on session to find out what to do and build you …
10:30
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    Sergeant Rob Simpson has run two major multi agency exercises called Winter Storm. He joins us to share  his top tips on how to set up a challenging exercise scenario, what works, what doesn't and how …
11:00
  1. Community Hub
    55 mins
    In a first for the show, we're hosting a special meet up where we're giving you the chance to meet dogs and their handlers who are working in various roles across the emergency services. You may have …
12:00
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    Ever wondered why there are so few women firefighters? Join Ellie and Amy in this interactive session on gender parity which aims to get you thinking about the biases that hold women back from applyin …
12:30
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    Stepping beyond the therapy room or online session, and out into nature with professional wellbeing support. Mind Over Mountains offers something different and deeply appealing for emergency responders - a chance to take time out of day to day life, walk side-by-side with counsellors and coaches, and find calm, clarity and resilience in the outdoors. Helen from the charity will explain why this approach is changing lives in the emergency services, and how you can access it for yourself or your teams.
13:00
  1. Community Hub
    50 mins
    The first of our two Resilience Action Plans lunch and learn sessions at this year's show sees the VCS Emergencies Partnership lead a discussion about strengthening partnerships between Category 1 and …
14:00
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    Get up close to one of the Casualties Union volunteers and find out how they make those injuries look so realistic. Judith is a show veteran and is going to share the secrets of why they are a key part of helping responders develop vital skills in care, diagnosis, and treatment.
14:30
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    Thanks to the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, you can access this short training session designed to empower you to be an active bystander when you see harassment taking place. Learn how to do this without putti …
15:00
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    Come and learn some basic sign language and be inspired to go further in this engaging and fun session with our new exhibitor, Deaf Unity.
15:30
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    Join clinical psychologist Nicola Colgan who will share key strategies you can use straight away to protect your mental health, and build resilience. She will explore how to create opportunities for g …
16:00
  1. Community Hub
    60 mins
    As part of the the #SheServesToo campaign, where we are celebrating women working in the emergency services - frontline to leadership - come along for an informal networking session in our new Communi …
09:30
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    In this practical session, join Kieran Stanbridge who will share tactics on how to influence Parliament to change legislation so that retired police dogs get a pension, just like their handlers.
10:00
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    Do you want to draw attention to your charity’s great work? Listen to Sudden Cardiac Arrest as they share how they set a Guinness World Record and how you can do the same. 
10:30
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    Find out about the SNOMED system, a means for GPs to consider whether firefighters concerned about their health may be showing early signs of cancer. He will share how firefighters can register with t …
11:00
  1. Community Hub
    55 mins
    In a first for the show, we're hosting a special meet up where we're giving you the chance to meet dogs and their handlers who are working in various roles across the emergency services. You may have …
12:00
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    Thanks to the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, you can access this short training session designed to empower you to be an active bystander when you see harassment taking place. Learn how to do this without putti …
12:30
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    This is your chance to meet Matthew Hopley, the National Police Chaplain and discover how chaplaincy is bringing pastoral care to all and the value it has not only in times of crisis but in day to day activities as well. 
13:00
  1. Community Hub
    50 mins
    The second of our Resilience Action Plans lunch and learn sessions allows our speakers to delve into the world of the local resilience forum (LRF). What issues may be facing LRFs as they dig into the …
14:00
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    In this engaging session hear from one air ambulance where they have learned how to raise funds in engaging and inclusive ways. Come and learn about the magic ingredient and how you can leverage their …
14:30
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    Lifesaver VR is an innovative CPR training game that puts you in the centre of the action. Join our friends from Resuscitation Council UK and immerse yourself in their training tool to see how it coul …
15:00
  1. Community Hub
    25 mins
    Discover the experiences of women working as lifeguards with the RNLI, from patrolling beaches to carrying out rescues at sea. This session shines a light on female representation in lifeguarding, the …