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The Gloucestershire Natural Flood Management Partnership

Gloucestershire has been at the forefront of delivery and studying Natural Flood Management (NFM) for over 10 years.  This began with the Stroud Valleys NFM Project which launched in 2014 and has successfully implement more than 1000 interventions with over 50 landowners, becoming a national exemplar. 

Building on successes in Stroud and elsewhere, the Gloucestershire NFM Partnership was established in 2023. Coordinated by Gloucestershire County Council, the partnership brings together 18 local partners involved in sustainable water management, including:

  • Gloucestershire County Council
  • Environment Agency
  • Natural England
  • Forestry England
  • Cotswolds National Landscape
  • Wye Valley National Landscape
  • Logos of the organisations involved in the Gloucestershire Natural Flood Management Partnership.Country Land and Business Association (CLA)
  • National Farmers Union (NFU)
  • Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
  • Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT)
  • Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG)
  • National Trust
  • Severn Rivers Trust
  • Woodland Trust
  • University of Gloucestershire
  • Gloucestershire Nature + Climate Fund
  • Severn Trent 
  • Thames Water
  • Wild Oxfordshire
  • Stroud District Council
  • Cotswold District Council
  • Forest of Dean District Council
  • Tewkesbury Borough Council
  • Gloucester City Council
  • Cheltenham Borough Council

Working together, the NFM Partnership aims to expand the scale, scope and impact of Natural Flood Management in Gloucestershire, for communities and nature.

We will do this by:

  • Building a pipeline of NFM projects across the county, in our priority catchments.
  • Providing or sourcing funding for project delivery, including through our own Gloucestershire NFM Grant Scheme.
  • Providing the tools, network and support to ensure NFM in the county delivers good results.
  • Building on the success of existing projects in the county, like in Stroud and the Evenlode catchment. 
  • Embedding NFM in our Flood Risk Management Strategy, as Lead Local Flood Authority (GCC). 
  • Creating positive relationships with communities and landowners. 

 

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