Community Resilience Handbook

Posted & filed under Blog, Community Resilience.

This Handbook has been produced by Southwell Flood Forum and Southwell Town Council as a useful handbook to build personal and community resilience and reference for use before and during an emergency. It was launched on May 15th 2016 at a huge community resilience event at Brackenhurst and delivered to every household in Southwell. You… Read more »

Talk on Gravel Gardens – Southwell Gardening Club – Tuesday 19th April 7.30

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Mike Wilkinson of University of Sheffield will talk on Beth Chatto inspired and flood mitigating gravel gardens. A gravel garden is a great option for a low maintenance garden. It lends itself to Mediterranean-style drought-tolerant planting so things like lavender, euphorbias, Cistus, Santolina and Phlomis are ideal and provide plenty of nectar and pollen for… Read more »

Johnny Fenn, a former Gurkha officer and his book about life after the earthquake in Nepal

Posted & filed under Community Resilience, Media Interviews.

Johnny Fenn was a Gurkha officer for 15 years before becoming a professional photographer. A week after the devastating earthquake in Nepal in 2015, he returned to the middle valleys of the country with his camera. In this area, the main recruitment region for Gurkha soldiers, he photographed local people left devastated after the disaster,… Read more »

Flood Re starts – 4th April 2016

Posted & filed under Community Resilience, insurance - Flood Re.

Flood Re should make it easier for people in flood-risk areas to get affordable household insurance. Thousands of homeowners and residents currently struggle to get buildings and contents insurance which creates anxiety, stress and frustration.  The National Flood Forum has been working with government and the insurance industry for several years to come up with… Read more »

The Life Scientific (Radio 4) – Carolyn Roberts – 22.3.16 on “problem solving in watery places”

Posted & filed under Community Resilience, Flood Mitigation, Nottingham Trent University.

Barely a month goes by without news of another catastrophic flood somewhere in the world, like the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 or the flooding of New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina a year later, and the role of climate change is often mooted. Here in the UK this winter, flood victims were once again caught… Read more »

Presentation on The impact of climate change – 9th March 2016

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The impact of climate change 4.00pm-6.30pm Wednesday 9th March 2016 Nottingham Sustainability & Enterprise Centre New College, Basford Hall, Stockhill Lane, NG6 0NB The recent severe storms and floods that affected many parts of the UK demonstrated the increasing impacts of climate change on our local environment.  This event features presentations from: – Environment Agency –… Read more »