Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
Community Risk Management Plan 2025-28
Our purpose is ‘Creating Safer Communities’, across the City of Nottingham and the county of Nottinghamshire, whether that be preventing emergencies from occurring, protecting people in the built-up environment or responding to 999 emergency calls.
We aim to positively contribute to the wider sustainable development of the communities of Nottinghamshire by improving life chances for young people and supporting our partners and other emergency services.
Our ambition is to be an outstanding fire and rescue service by 2032, where:
Nottinghamshire and City of Nottingham Fire Authority, which is made up of six Councillors from Nottingham City Council, 12 Councillors from Nottinghamshire County Council and the Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner, is legally responsible for the provision of the fire and rescue service.
The Service operates with over 800 people and an annual budget, in 2024-25, of £55m.
Our core services are delivered by a full-time equivalent staff of 704 people operating mainly from our fire stations, and they account for 63% of our annual expenditure. This includes an establishment of 432 wholetime firefighters and 237 on-call firefighters.
Their work is enabled by 134 fulltime equivalent roles working in support functions, who are mostly based at our Joint Headquarters and Service Development Centre. These colleagues account for a further 10% of our annual expenditure.
Our ambition is not just about the work that we do, it also focuses on the way in which we go about our work. Our values and culture are important to us and play a significant role in becoming an outstanding organisation. Culture refers to our identity as an organisation, who our colleagues are, what we do and how we do it.
Our values ensure that we put communities at the heart of all that we do. They align with the national Core Code of Ethics, embedded in our leadership and behavioural frameworks. These frameworks set out the expected standards of behaviour from colleagues at all levels of the organisation.
One team
We are one team working together to create safer communities
Open to change
We open ourselves up to new ideas and become a more sustainable and stable organisation, ready for the future.
Value and Respect
By treating our staff, our community and our service users with respect and consideration we become a more customer-focused and inclusive organisation.
Professional
We behave with integrity and take personal responsibility for our behaviour and decisions.
Culturally, we are a positive, inclusive and welcoming organisation, in which