Our purpose
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 organisation
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 officers 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.
We have 24 fire stations strategically positioned across the county.
- 11 are staffed 24/7 by whole time crews, 3 of these also have on-call crews
- 1 is staffed by a wholetime crew during the day, with on-call cover at night
- 12 are staffed on an on-call basis only
They host 30 fire appliances and a range of specialist vehicles including two aerial ladder platforms, command and welfare support vehicles, specialist rescue units, a high volume pump.
In an average year in Nottinghamshire we:
Attend over 10,500 incidents, typically including around 3,400 fires, over 560 road traffic collisions, and over 4,500 false alarms
Respond to calls for help in an average of 8 minutes from the time the first fire engine is mobilised
Attend around 1,500 incidents to provide humanitarian assistance and rescues of people
Carry out over 16,000 Safe and Well visits, targeting those people at a higher risk of having a fire at home
Carry out over 2,200 engagements with businesses to ensure compliance with fire safety legislation
We deliver over 700 training events, from a portfolio of over 140 courses, which are attended by more than 3,000 delegates
Our values and culture
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.
