BCI North East England Chapter Meeting 2026
It was a real pleasure to lead my first meeting, introduce the Committee, and share our aims and objectives for the Chapter, as well as bring so many members together for such an informative and hands-on session focused on exercising.
I'd like to thank our speakers:
- Rachel Mitchell and Victoria Crennell - Their session exploring the differences between exercising, assurance and validation prompted some really useful discussion and the importance of demonstrating meaningful outcomes from our exercise programmes. I'd love to continue the discussion with all members in our LinkedIn group - so keep an eye out for this and please join in with your thoughts and experiences.
- David Thorp - It was great to hear the latest updates on the BCI’s strategy, Mini GPGs, and plans for the BCI World conferences.
- Ryan Taylor and Bryan Hurcomb - The facilitated exercise led by DCR Partners brought a real practical edge to the day. Working through a complex and multi scenario exercise, with everyone actively involved, created a great opportunity to share learning and reflect on exercise delivery methods and maturity.
I really enjoyed the opportunity to meet, catch up and chat, and everyone's willingness to share, challenge and support each other - a key aim of bringing our local community together.
A huge thank you to our sponsors, Noggin, for making this meeting possible, and at such a fantastic venue!
Events like this don’t happen without the effort of those behind the scenes, so a big thank you to the Committee for organising and supporting the session.
We’ll be starting to plan the next Chapter event soon, so keep an eye out in the Chapter LinkedIn group for updates.
In the meantime, let’s keep the conversations going.
We look forward to welcoming you again at our future events.
Best Wishes,
Jenny Wilkinson MBCI
Leader, BCI North East England Chapter
Slides and exercise assets from the Chapter meeting
BCI-North- East-Chapter-Presentation 26th June 2026.pdf
BCI NE England Chapter_DCR Exercise.pdf
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About the author
Jennifer Wilkinson
Director
Jenny is the Founder of Rule28 with over 10 years’ experience in financial services and the healthcare sector, working across the business continuity, operational resilience and emergency planning disciplines.
North East based with significant experience in the development and delivery of business continuity and operational resilience programmes. Experienced in operational resilience, Business Impact Assessments (BIA), business continuity strategy and planning (BCP), incident management, third party supplier resilience, resilience in change, training & exercising, and business continuity & resilience system implementation. Supporting organisations to effectively implement continuity and resilience programmes across the strategic, tactical and operational levels.
An MBCI member who is a certified ISO22301 Lead Auditor and Practitioner, with a MSc in Emergency Planning, Resilience and Response. Jenny has a breadth of experience in the analysis, planning, and validation of continuity and resilience activities, ensures the delivery of quality outputs to support the continuous improvement of resilience capabilities within any organisation.
