Flooded people helping each other — and changing what happens next.Flooded people helping each other.

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Flooded People UKFind your next step

By and for flooded people

You don’t have to face flooding alone.

Flooded People UK connects people who have been flooded, helps communities organise, and brings lived experience into the decisions that shape flood risk.

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We work with

Flooded peopleFlood action groupsRisk management authoritiesPolicy makers

Start where you are

What would help right now?

Choose the path that sounds most like you. Each one leads to clear next steps.

01

I’ve been flooded

Talk to people who understand

Find peer support, shared experience and trusted information in our private community.

02

I’m organising locally

Build a voice for your community

Get practical help to start, strengthen or refocus a local Flood Action Group.

03

I work in flood risk management

Partner with lived experience

Explore our policy work, community evidence and opportunities to collaborate.

What we do

Support that leads to change.

Our two areas of work reinforce each other: the experiences of flood-affected communities inform our work nationally, while learning from across the country helps us provide better support locally.

Support & organise

No one should navigate flooding on their own.

We offer direct and peer support, connect flooded people across the UK, and help residents organise strong local Flood Action Groups.

  • A moderated online community
  • Practical, person-to-person support
  • Community visits and group organising
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A Flooded People UK organiser listening to a resident

Advocate & influence

Flooded people belong at the centre of decisions.

We turn shared experience into evidence, coalitions and practical policy proposals for safer, drier and thriving communities.

  • A clear national standard of protection
  • Fairer flood funding and accountability
  • A humane system for coping and recovery
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A home surrounded by floodwater

Local voices.National change.

Floodwater surrounding homes in a communityShared knowledge · Collective action

“To be able to share advice, best practice and support each other is essential.”

Robert CobbFlood Action for North Scarle

Policy & updates

Making flood management clearer.

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Consultation response

Evidence submission – emergency response to flooding inquiry, Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Committee

Introduction We have built this submission by directly submitting the committee’s questions to our online network of flood survivors and recording their answers. In this way, committee members can hear directly from those with lived…

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Policy

Blog: It’s time to stop pitting green and grey interventions against each other

It’s time to stop pitting green and grey interventions against each other:  When it comes to managing floods, there is no ‘either/or’ choice between engineering and working with nature. And yet the arguments surrounding this…

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Community update

September 2026 – the power of people

The Power of People Dear all, A month ago we asked you to help us share something a little different and exciting. We were supporting Severn Together: Communities in Action, a community and flood action…

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For funders, NGOs and flood-sector partners

Work with a network rooted in lived experience.

Bring community insight into research, programmes, funding and policy—and help local experience travel further.

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