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It’s this wonderful mix of perspectives that creates a strong foundation for learning, ensuring everyone walks away with the skills they need to tackle even the most demanding situations. The shared experiences of these diverse groups really highlight how crucial it is to work together across different fields to develop effective training programmes.
Stephanie Buller BSc, MRes
Disaster Science / Multi-Hazard Risk Management / Resilience
Winter Storm is a truly unique conference, bringing together a rich tapestry of perspectives from across sectors and disciplines. What sets it apart is its unwavering focus on pragmatic, real-world problem-solving. It isn’t just another event—it embodies a whole-of-society approach, translating theory into tangible action.
Winter Storm fills a long-standing gap by providing an innovative space for sector partners to collaborate on emerging challenges of growing urgency. These challenges carry real consequences for the protection of resilience professionals and the continuity of critical business and emergency response operations—especially under the increasing strain of extreme weather
James Boyd
Key Account Manager TSG Associates LLP
TSG Associates LLP has exhibited at Ex Winter Storm for the last few years. As a event it is a first, in that we were able to demonstrate equipment on the stand, run workshops out in the snow and then should the delegate teams wish to, have the opportunity to use the equipment during the live exercise.
Winter Storm 2025 saw a dynamic agenda of thought-provoking lectures. We look forward to future extreme weather event exercises under the Winter Storm brand, raising awareness, capability and response.
Phil Ridley
Training Officer Mountain Rescue England & Wales
The recent series of Exercise Winterstorms illustrates how all statatory and volunteer emergency services are working together by sharing knowledge, skills and experiences. These events have continued to grow in scale, covering a number of multi-agency topics from the practical to the academic"
The full on practical scenarios are definitely where the teams/crews on the ground gain the most experience and insight into how each other work efficiently together
Phil Ridley
Training Officer Mountain Rescue England & Wales
Michael Broadley
Station Manager Merseyside Fire & Rescue
Exercise Winter Storm has provided an invaluable opportunity for the fire and rescue service to assess the performance of its equipment and PPE in extreme weather conditions, specifically sub-zero temperatures. From a research and development perspective this exercise has served as a real-world opportunity to highlight both areas within our PPE, equipment that requires immediate attention.
Whilst exercising at the Snow Dome in -5°C, highlighted a number of challenges. Defibs and battery-operated rescue equipment struggled to perform reliably in the cold, with reduced power output and delayed response.
It was clear that the current clothing issued to crews was hard to work in and failed to provide adequate thermal insulation during extended periods of deployment which then effects their performance.
These limitations highlighted considerations around firefighter safety and operational capability as the UK faces increasingly frequent extreme weather events.
The learning acquired from Exercise Winter Storm is already influencing our procurement processes. Environmental performance particularly, in cold weather is being embedded into technical specifications and product evaluation. Findings are being shared with the NFCC PPE Group and National Resilience to support sector-wide improvements in kit design, testing, and deployment.
Having this unique opportunity to take part in this research is priceless in validating our assumptions, challenging product suitability and, ensuring we future proof our response capability in a changing climate. With this project being supported by Liverpool John Moores University it provides credible evidence to support my business case and financial bids.