For the busy reader: SUMMARY: This newsletter showcases all the little successes of 2025 and looks back at our first year as Flooded People UK.  At the bottom, you have a full list of our recent media work!  CALL TO ACTION: We’ve reached out to people asking why they like this newsletter. So now we have a clearer purpose, with it written out in our signup page.  For flooded people, this newsletter summarizes the month and showcases their work and others.  For non-flooded peop

For the busy reader: Storm Claudia couldn’t kill our gathering in Birmingham, which was a huge success. You can watch the film here. In spite of fierce opposition from Defra, we managed to get our investigation into stealth cuts into the Times. You can read it here.  The community is growing as it should. Welcome to our new members. Thank you for the heroes who have stepped up to help. You amaze us every day. Little ways to help: Go on our FACEBOOK PAGE and invite all your c

From: Katia Sanhueza-Pino Dear all, For several years, across England and Wales, I have witnessed firsthand the struggles of flooded communities. Time and again, people tell me they feel unheard, misunderstood, and unsupported. Tangible commitments to prevent flooding and protect lives are too slow in coming.  Whether we call it climate change adaptation or sustainable investment in new and existing infrastructure , both are desperately needed. The level of “resilience” expe

Dear all,   If you’re just joining us, welcome to edition 8 of the ever-evolving Flooded People UK newsletter.    FOR THE QUICK READER: WE’RE GETTING READY FOR WINTER  Our political plan is ready: We’re going to flood the zone with your stories. In order to get politicians to listen, we will spend our winter shining a giant spotlight on everything that happens before a flood, after a flood, and during the stressful season.  So we’re looking for spokespeople! Write me if you’r

Dear all,   If you’ve had a holiday and are slowly checking back in, welcome. I’m personally at that sweet spot with my batteries fully charged, ready to get back to work.    I want to share some massive news.   Flooded People UK have successfully led a group of organisations in applying for a £1.47million grant, which will fund work around flooding in highly disadvantaged neighbourhoods for the next four years.    The process started some time ago when, in 2024, I met Sanjay

Hi everyone,   I can’t believe it’s been six months since we’ve launched. It’s flown by. Thinking about those months before we slow down for summer, I thought I’d share a bit of a recap of what we’ve been up to. So it’s a bit of a send off before we get back to full-speed this coming September.   To put it simply, six months ago a few flood professionals and community organisers came together to decide on our vision. Now we have a well moderated online community where 96 floo

Dear all,   With the government now consulting on major changes to its flood policy, I wanted to dedicate this newsletter to the daunting task of explaining them.    If you are a flooded person who would like to respond to the consultation and would rather not read 70-pages of flood-Whitehallese, we are building a shared response where we’ve made it accessible,  just click on this questionnaire .       The tools are complicated, involving changes to formulas for investment an

Dear all, A note from Louis: Welcome to newsletter #4. If you're just joining us, happy to have you! Today, we are delighted to share our strategy for working with flooded communities moving forward. I therefore thought I'd let Sanjay, the strategy's architect, take the lead in explaining. As always, your responses welcome. A new way forward: turning local flood action into national change If you’ve been flooded, you know how urgent it is. You don’t waste time. You learn abou

Dear all,   To those just joining us, welcome to the third edition of the Flooded People newsletter. It’s now been three months since we’ve kicked off our project, and the reaction from flooded communities has been amazing. More on that later, but for now suffice to stress that you are always invited to respond to this newsletter. Shout out to Hugh Disley for a good exchange last time.   IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER: A takeaway from yesterday’s online meeting of Flooded People.  Leg

Dear all,   Welcome to the second edition of Flooded People UK’s newsletter. As always, please feel free to answer these emails with feedback or thoughts. Your suggestions have been most helpful last time, and hopefully thanks to comments by David Webb, the deliverability issues are now fixed!    A couple of weeks back, our cofounder and organiser extraordinaire Heather invited me to tag along with her to an event in London. As always, the idea was to have flooded people or t

Dear all, This is our first email for the Flooded People UK newsletter, through which we will keep you up to date on our journey. In the long run, we will work to make this a trusted source of information about flooding. We’d love to hear back from you, and you can let us know what you think, or about anything flood-related. We intend for this to be a dialogue and for your experience to shape what we share. Last week, the Flooded People UK team - Heather, Harry, Sanjay, Chris