The Flood Hub

Communication of general social media content along with focused campaign information is shared with relevant risk management authorities and flooding partners to keep them up to date with our social media activity. We also provide partners the opportunity to promote their own information and campaigns through The Flood Hub website and social media channels. If you would like The Flood Hub to promote your organisation’s social media post, please tag @TheFloodHub to ensure we don’t miss them.

In addition, The Flood Hub has a News and Events area, a section that includes good practice case studies and information on some of the proposed, in progress and completed Flood Risk Management Schemes in the Northwest. If you have information that you would like to include in any of the above please forward them to the contact details below.

 

Contact Us

If you are interested in working more closely with us or simply want more information, please feel free to get in touch. You can do this by emailing Newground at flood@newground.co.uk.

 

In April 2020 we launched The Flood Hub Newsletter, which provides a round-up of new content on the website and is published on a quarterly basis. Sections of the newsletter can include:

• News and Events
• Upcoming campaigns
• An insight into watch content has been added to the site
• A feature case study
• Flood Risk Management Scheme updates
• New Knowledge Hub resources
• Newground Flood Team updates
• Top Tips and Facts
• Useful links & contact information

To download the latest newsletter and to sign up for future editions, click here.

 

Social and digital media capabilities

Engagement with the public through social media occurs via Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Our aim is to raise awareness of flooding and how it is managed, as well as to promote resilience and preparedness information for future events, so that individuals can carry out the most appropriate actions at the time of a flood or similar emergency event. We also post information about other flood related topics, such as Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), Natural Flood Management (NFM) and coastal management. Promotion of the website’s pages, downloadable resources, graphics and animations are the main way that information and advice is relayed to the public on social media.

 

Social Media Engagement

The Flood Hub uses Twitter, Facebook and Linked In to increase awareness of all types of flood related information included on the website. Information is posted daily and the posts vary each month, sometimes in response to, or in preparation for flooding to raise awareness. We aim to be proactive as well as reactive and are flexible in our approach so that we can respond quickly to other flood related topics.

Sample social media posts for various topics, can be viewed here.

Social media posts will include hashtags related to flooding and related topics for example #flooding, #floodaware, #SuDS, #ClimateChange and #NFM. Targeted hashtags are used to try and reach the relevant audience. Partner Twitter and Facebook accounts are tagged in relevant posts to try and increase the sharing of posts and to help users access information on their pages.

If you would like The Flood Hub to promote your organisation’s social media post, please tag @TheFloodHub to ensure we don’t miss any relevant posts.

 

Social Media Graphics

We have a range of social media graphics and animations that we use to highlight hot topics and useful tips, aiming to keep them simple and catchy to grab interest. Graphics and animations are also created for each social media campaign that we hold and can be created on request from partners for campaigns or to highlight important information.

Below is a sample of some of our social media graphics available.

 

 

 

The full library of our graphics and animations and to download them for your own use, can be found here.

 

The Flood Hub have developed a number of campaigns on key topics to increase awareness and showcase good practice from across the North West.

These topics include:

• Flood Aware
• Natural Flood Management
• Property Flood Resilience
• Sustainable Drainage Systems
• Coastal Flooding and Erosion
• Community Flood Resilience
• Riparian Ownership

The following campaign topics are new for 2023/24:

• Types of Flooding
• Who plays a part in managing flood risk?

To find out more about upcoming campaigns, click here.

 

This table outlines the current campaigns planned for The Flood Hub’s Twitter, Facebook and Linked In accounts for the year:

2023
April	Natural Flood Management (NFM)
May	Business Flood Resilience  – Linked In
June	Types of Flooding
July (early)	Social media focus on the ‘Learning’ section of The Flood Hub
August (end)	Social media focus on the ‘Learning’ section of The Flood Hub
September	Social media focus on Storm Names
	Individual Resilience
October	Coastal Focus Week
November	The Flood Hub’s 5th Birthday
	Community
December	Christmas Key Messages
2024
January	Who plays a part in managing flood risk? / Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)* The theme for this month is dependent on when SuDS become mandatory on developments in England – the other theme will then be run in March.
February	Riparian Ownership
March	Social media focus flood risk, planning and development*

Last updated: October 2023

*The months of these campaigns are provisional and this table will be updated when dates have been confirmed.

Partners are emailed one week prior to the start of a campaign to raise awareness of it. Partners will be contacted again on the first day of the campaign with further information which may contain sample social media posts for partners to use. Each campaign is highlighted on social media in the days and weeks prior to the start of the campaign and a news article is posted on The Flood Hub website. In 2019 we started a weekly #FloodFactFriday campaign which includes an interesting fact about flooding, rainfall or flood related topics.

Although we directly email many organisations and partner contacts, we also rely on partners to share campaign information to further spread the message and to reach a wider audience. Therefore, any extra help we can receive from partners is greatly appreciated.

The Flood Hub also joins in with external campaigns such as the Environment Agency’s Flood Action Week,  #Unblocktober and #30Days30WaysUK.

If you would like us to support any flood related campaigns or have any ideas for new topics, please email flood@newground.co.uk or tag @TheFloodHub on twitter and we would be happy to promote.

 

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