Manchester City Council

Aim Of The Business Continuity Forum

The City Council, alongside its partners, has been active in establishing and promoting a Manchester Business Continuity Forum, the first of its kind in the Greater Manchester region and the only Business Continuity Forum in the country to provide this type of service free of charge.

Through a range of events, discussions and publications, the Forum aim to increase awareness of business continuity management amongst Manchester's businesses and voluntary organisations to enable them to survive the impact of broad range of disruptions.

For further details about the Forum and what the group is trying to achieve, please use the following links:

• Proposed Outcomes document (PDF 173KB) 
• Terms Of Reference document (PDF 173KB) 

Programme of Work

The Manchester Business Continuity Forum steering group is made up of representatives from a variety of organisations in Manchester, ranging from large commercial organisations, Universities, our partners in Health and the Emergency Services, other City Council departments and specialist business continuity consultancies, to help best reflect the needs of the City.

The content of Forum Steering Group meetings is informed by delegate feedback from our events and other reliable consultation findings. The Forum Steering Group has recently produced a work plan for the forthcoming year, based on these findings, to help provide clear focus to the group and to enable us to measure our success.

We currently have about 250 members in the Forum, a combination of private and voluntary organisations, but we are hoping to extend our membership even further in the future.

If you would like to register on the Business Continuity Forum electronic mailing list, please contact our Business Continuity team via email:

business.continuity@manchester.gov.uk 

...or by telephone on 0161 234 3293. 

Details of future events and other emerging information will be emailed to you.  Please note that places for future events may be limited and will be reserved on a first come, first served basis.