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25 local projects demonstrating how practical innovative actions can improve resilience to flooding and coastal erosion in a changing climate.
Our programme of 25 projects will address current and future flood risks, from the sea, rivers, groundwater and surface water. The programme will learn from doing. We will share lessons widely. The evidence gathered through this 6 year programme will guide future approaches in flood and coastal risk management.
Video introduction to the Flood and coastal resilience innovation programme
The Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme (FCRIP) is part of the government's National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy for England. The strategy’s vision is for England to be a nation ready for, and resilient to, flooding and coastal change - today, tomorrow and to the year 2100.
Our programme aims to:
encourage local authorities, businesses and communities to test and demonstrate innovative practical resilience actions in their areas,
improve the resilience of 25 local areas, reducing the costs of future damage and disruption from flooding and coastal erosion,
improve evidence on the costs and benefits of the innovative resilience actions and demonstrate how different actions work together across geographical areas,
use the evidence and learning developed to inform future approaches to, and investments in, flood and coastal erosion risk management.
Geographical location of the projects
How the 25 projects are testing innovation
The 25 local projects will demonstrate how practical innovative actions can improve resilience to flooding and coastal erosion. The projects are testing 10 resilience actions building on existing evidence and previous work. These resilience actions go beyond those funded through the government’s main flood and coastal erosion grant in aid programme.
Projects have created their detailed plans and are now beginning delivery.
Innovation in this programme means the projects will:
gather evidence on how combinations of different actions can deliver benefits to place-based resilience
trial a broader range of resilience actions to improve our understanding and evidence of the costs and benefits of different actions
increase uptake and find new ways to achieve a resilient action. For example, using new partnerships, or different ways of working or funding projects, or overcoming barriers to achieve the outcomes.
Find your perfect project!
We have grouped the projects into categories and resilience actions to help you find those you are most interested in in this project finder.
There are 5 categories:
Catchment scale
SuDs and groundwater
Community
Coastal
Technology
There are 10 resilience actions and 3 policy challenges:
Integrated water management solutions
Nature based solutions
Property flood resilience
Community infrastructure resilience
Monitoring and management of local assets
Minimise damages and disruption to small and medium sized businesses
Community and voluntary sector action to be better prepared and recover more quickly
Local emergency response equipment
Enhanced flood warning systems
Investigate policy challenge areas
Balancing agricultural, flood and environmental priorities in low-lying agricultural land.
Meeting the need for major new developments in areas with flood risks
Retrofitting drainage and water management arrangements in urban areas
Click on the links in the tables below to find out more about these projects and how you can get involved.
Resilience actions
Integrated water management solutions
Pilot integrated water management solutions which increase the resilience to flooding and coastal change whilst also providing secondary benefits such as, managing water levels, improving water quality, reducing drought risks, helping nature recovery and mitigating the impacts of climate change.
Implement nature based solutions which increase the resilience to flooding and coastal change whilst also providing secondary benefits such as, managing water levels, improving water quality, reducing drought risks, helping nature recovery and mitigating the impacts of climate change.
Undertake activities which improve the resilience of existing public or community owned infrastructure (e.g. local roads, community centres, libraries and sports halls) to flooding and coastal change. For example, by implementing sustainable drainage, property flood resilience measures, adapting roads to convey floodwater away from properties / infrastructure, or providing temporary or secondary defences.
Minimise damages and disruption to small and medium sized businesses
Work with groups of small and medium sized businesses to identify the types of actions which could minimise business disruption and damage (e.g. on assets, supply chains and operations), from flooding and coastal change in the project area.
Community and voluntary sector action to be better prepared and recover more quickly
Test innovative ways to develop community and voluntary sector action to: (1) Better involve communities in collaborative decision making about how to manage the risk of flooding and coastal change their area; (2) Help communities become better prepared to manage their own risk, and; (3) Build community and voluntary sector capacity and skills to recover from flood events.
Provide local emergency response equipment for the community to use when there is a flood, for example; flood sacks, temporary barriers, safety equipment and pumps.
Throughout the next six years, the projects, partners, and programme will share knowledge, learning and insights. Each project will quantify and analyse the results of their resilience actions.
Defra is evaluating projects at a strategic programme level. This includes:
how well the projects have met the programme’s aims,
cost-benefit of the resilience actions investigated by the projects, both combined and individually.
We are looking at how best to share learning as widely as possible. Our goal is to make sure this is embedded in Flood and coastal risk management. To get involved in our research or learning email innovative resilience@environment-agency.gov.uk .
Funding background
In 2021, 25 areas across England were awarded £150 million of funding by Defra to develop innovative solutions to flood and coastal resilience in their communities as part of this new Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme. This was allocated from the Innovation Fund.
Our programme is running for 6 years and is managed by the Environment Agency. It fulfils a key commitment of the government’s policy statement on flood and coastal erosion and the Environment Agency’s National Flood & Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy to develop and test new approaches to tackle the threat of flooding and coastal change.
This programme is funding 25 projects to provide innovative practical actions. Working locally, each project will help communities to become more resilient to the effects of flooding and climate change. Local authorities, together with other risk management authorities, partners and communities will develop innovative solutions to flood and coastal resilience in communities across England, in towns and cities as well as in the countryside.
25 local projects demonstrating how practical innovative actions can improve resilience to flooding and coastal erosion in a changing climate.
Our programme of 25 projects will address current and future flood risks, from the sea, rivers, groundwater and surface water. The programme will learn from doing. We will share lessons widely. The evidence gathered through this 6 year programme will guide future approaches in flood and coastal risk management.
Video introduction to the Flood and coastal resilience innovation programme
The Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme (FCRIP) is part of the government's National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy for England. The strategy’s vision is for England to be a nation ready for, and resilient to, flooding and coastal change - today, tomorrow and to the year 2100.
Our programme aims to:
encourage local authorities, businesses and communities to test and demonstrate innovative practical resilience actions in their areas,
improve the resilience of 25 local areas, reducing the costs of future damage and disruption from flooding and coastal erosion,
improve evidence on the costs and benefits of the innovative resilience actions and demonstrate how different actions work together across geographical areas,
use the evidence and learning developed to inform future approaches to, and investments in, flood and coastal erosion risk management.
Geographical location of the projects
How the 25 projects are testing innovation
The 25 local projects will demonstrate how practical innovative actions can improve resilience to flooding and coastal erosion. The projects are testing 10 resilience actions building on existing evidence and previous work. These resilience actions go beyond those funded through the government’s main flood and coastal erosion grant in aid programme.
Projects have created their detailed plans and are now beginning delivery.
Innovation in this programme means the projects will:
gather evidence on how combinations of different actions can deliver benefits to place-based resilience
trial a broader range of resilience actions to improve our understanding and evidence of the costs and benefits of different actions
increase uptake and find new ways to achieve a resilient action. For example, using new partnerships, or different ways of working or funding projects, or overcoming barriers to achieve the outcomes.
Find your perfect project!
We have grouped the projects into categories and resilience actions to help you find those you are most interested in in this project finder.
There are 5 categories:
Catchment scale
SuDs and groundwater
Community
Coastal
Technology
There are 10 resilience actions and 3 policy challenges:
Integrated water management solutions
Nature based solutions
Property flood resilience
Community infrastructure resilience
Monitoring and management of local assets
Minimise damages and disruption to small and medium sized businesses
Community and voluntary sector action to be better prepared and recover more quickly
Local emergency response equipment
Enhanced flood warning systems
Investigate policy challenge areas
Balancing agricultural, flood and environmental priorities in low-lying agricultural land.
Meeting the need for major new developments in areas with flood risks
Retrofitting drainage and water management arrangements in urban areas
Click on the links in the tables below to find out more about these projects and how you can get involved.
Resilience actions
Integrated water management solutions
Pilot integrated water management solutions which increase the resilience to flooding and coastal change whilst also providing secondary benefits such as, managing water levels, improving water quality, reducing drought risks, helping nature recovery and mitigating the impacts of climate change.
Implement nature based solutions which increase the resilience to flooding and coastal change whilst also providing secondary benefits such as, managing water levels, improving water quality, reducing drought risks, helping nature recovery and mitigating the impacts of climate change.
Undertake activities which improve the resilience of existing public or community owned infrastructure (e.g. local roads, community centres, libraries and sports halls) to flooding and coastal change. For example, by implementing sustainable drainage, property flood resilience measures, adapting roads to convey floodwater away from properties / infrastructure, or providing temporary or secondary defences.
Minimise damages and disruption to small and medium sized businesses
Work with groups of small and medium sized businesses to identify the types of actions which could minimise business disruption and damage (e.g. on assets, supply chains and operations), from flooding and coastal change in the project area.
Community and voluntary sector action to be better prepared and recover more quickly
Test innovative ways to develop community and voluntary sector action to: (1) Better involve communities in collaborative decision making about how to manage the risk of flooding and coastal change their area; (2) Help communities become better prepared to manage their own risk, and; (3) Build community and voluntary sector capacity and skills to recover from flood events.
Provide local emergency response equipment for the community to use when there is a flood, for example; flood sacks, temporary barriers, safety equipment and pumps.
Throughout the next six years, the projects, partners, and programme will share knowledge, learning and insights. Each project will quantify and analyse the results of their resilience actions.
Defra is evaluating projects at a strategic programme level. This includes:
how well the projects have met the programme’s aims,
cost-benefit of the resilience actions investigated by the projects, both combined and individually.
We are looking at how best to share learning as widely as possible. Our goal is to make sure this is embedded in Flood and coastal risk management. To get involved in our research or learning email innovative resilience@environment-agency.gov.uk .
Funding background
In 2021, 25 areas across England were awarded £150 million of funding by Defra to develop innovative solutions to flood and coastal resilience in their communities as part of this new Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme. This was allocated from the Innovation Fund.
Our programme is running for 6 years and is managed by the Environment Agency. It fulfils a key commitment of the government’s policy statement on flood and coastal erosion and the Environment Agency’s National Flood & Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy to develop and test new approaches to tackle the threat of flooding and coastal change.
This programme is funding 25 projects to provide innovative practical actions. Working locally, each project will help communities to become more resilient to the effects of flooding and climate change. Local authorities, together with other risk management authorities, partners and communities will develop innovative solutions to flood and coastal resilience in communities across England, in towns and cities as well as in the countryside.
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