Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Policy Template – UK

A professional, ready-to-edit Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Policy Template designed for UK businesses.

This comprehensive template helps organisations prepare for unexpected disruption, maintain critical business activities and restore normal operations as quickly and safely as possible.

This template covers:

• Business continuity roles and responsibilities
• Identification of critical business activities
• Business impact considerations
• Key systems, information and dependencies
• Maximum tolerable disruption and recovery priorities
• Emergency contacts and escalation
• Loss of premises or workplace access
• IT and system outages
• Cyber-security incidents
• Power, internet and communications failures
• Staff shortages and key-person absence
• Supplier and third-party disruption
• Severe weather and other major incidents
• Alternative working arrangements
• Remote-working contingencies
• Backup and data-recovery arrangements
• Disaster recovery procedures
• Internal and external communications
• Customer and supplier communications
• Incident decision-making and authority
• Restoration of critical services
• Return to normal operations
• Testing and exercising continuity plans
• Lessons learned following disruption
• Training and employee awareness
• Regular review and maintenance

Designed to be 95% ready to use, simply add your company details, identify critical operations and contacts, and tailor the recovery arrangements to your organisation.

The structure reflects UK resilience guidance emphasising identifying critical systems and processes, maintaining tested backups, assigning responsibilities, documenting important contacts and planning how operations will recover following disruption. 

Ideal for: Small businesses, startups and growing organisations wanting a professional framework for keeping their business operational when unexpected disruption occurs.

Format: Editable digital template
Delivery: Instant digital download

This template provides general business information and does not constitute legal, regulatory, insurance or specialist business-continuity advice.