Jacky Huson of Southwell Flood Forum attended this conference.
“It was useful to network with other community flood groups and I made a couple of particularly useful contacts. When I talked to other local Flood groups, it was affirming that Southwell Flood Forum is developing very successfully with good practice and very much along the lines of Community Resilience.”
Below is a summary of the event and presentations.
The National Flood Forum Conference 2014
13th March 2014 — 09:00 to 16:30
Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Community Flood Risk Management: Improving effectiveness and efficiency
Early Lessons from the Flood Resilience Community Pathfinders
National policy on flood risk management is increasingly focused on the benefit of flood risk management interventions to communities and empowering them to take ownership and work with partners. This presents a challenge to many organisations. The aim of this conference is to explore the details of this approach and by assessing evidence from early lessons from the Flood Resilience Community Pathfinders and other projects.
Objectives:
- To promote and focus on the benefits of community based approaches to flood risk management
- It will become increasingly important to be able to demonstrate how community approaches help to deliver services efficiently, at less cost and through a range of external partnership arrangements that protect staffing and budget lines
- Community engagement processes will increasingly become more sophisticated. We need to learn from best practice and take early lessons from the Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder programme
Conference Outputs:
- Working with businesses - Christina Worsley - Environmental Consultant, Newground
- Why a community approach to flood risk management is important - an EA perspective - Pete Fox - Head of Strategy and Investment, Environment Agency
- Property level protection schemes learning - Robbie Craig - DEFRA
- Paul Cobbing - Chief Executive National Flood Forum - Welcome
- Incentivising flood resilient behaviour - role of Central Government - Mary Stevens, Team Leader, Flood Insurance and Resilience, Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management, DEFRA
- Forums groups of groups - Martin Alvey, Community Flood Resilience Manager, Cornwall Council
- Flood risk insurance - Paul Cobbing Chief Executive National Flood Forum
- Community Engagement - Hannah Tankard - Flood Risk Support Officer, The National Flood Forum
- Community based approaches early learning from the Flood Resilience Community Pathfinders - Paula Orr and Clare Twigger-Ross, Collingwood Environmental Planning Unit
- ClimateJust - identifying and addressing flood vulnerability - Katharine Knox - Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Building Community Flood Resilience in West Sussex - Louise Goldsmith - Leader, West Sussex County Council
- Broadbrush vs concentrated impact - Grace Martin - Community Resilience Officer (Swindon) National Flood Forum