The Flood Hub

Communication of general social media content along with focus week 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/focus weeks 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, Events and Blogs 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 The Flood Team at [email protected].

The Flood Hub Newsletter 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 focus weeks
• An insight into watch content has been added to the site over the last quarter.
• 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 X (formally Twitter), Facebook, LinkedIn and Bluesky. 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 X (formally Twitter), Facebook, LinkedIn and Bluesky 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 social media 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 focus week that we hold and can be created on request from partners for campaigns/focus weeks or to highlight important information.

Below is a sample of some of our social media graphics available, which you can also view and download by clicking here.

 

 

 

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 focus weeks on key topics to increase awareness and showcase good practice from across the North West.

These topics include:

 

Flood Aware	Community Flood Resilience
Natural Flood Management	Business Flood Resilience
Property Flood Resilience	Riparian Ownership
Sustainable Drainage Systems	Types of Flooding
Coastal Flooding and Erosion	Managing Flood Risk
Flood Safety	Flood Risk and Planning

 

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:

2025
28th April – 2nd May	Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)
12th – 16th May	Property Flood Resilience (PFR)
19th – 23th May	Business Continuity
9th  – 13th June	Natural Flood Management (NFM)
30th June – 4th July	Climate Change: Flooding and Coastal Change
26th – 29th August	Focus on the ‘Learning’ section of The Flood Hub
1st – 5th September	Storms
22nd – 26th September	Coastal Adaption
6th – 10th October	Flood Safety
20th – 24th October	Flood Aware? Plan and Prepare
5th November	The Flood Hub’s Birthday
1st – 4th December	Community
2026
19th – 23rd January	Regional Flood and Coastal Committee
9th – 13th February	Who’s Responsible for Managing Flood Risk
2nd – 7th March	National Careers Week
9th – 13th March	Riparian Ownership

Last updated: April 2025

*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 focus week to raise awareness of it. Partners will be contacted again on the first day of the focus week with further information which may contain sample social media posts for partners to use. Each focus week is highlighted on social media in the days and weeks prior to the start of the focus week 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 focus week 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/focus weeks such as the Environment Agency’s Flood Action Week and #Unblocktober.

If you would like us to support any flood related campaigns or have any ideas for new topics, please email The Flood Team at [email protected] or tag @TheFloodHub and we would be happy to promote.

 

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