A team from the Flood Innovation Centre will visit Hessle in East Yorkshire on Thursday 2 March to hold an informal drop-in session for local businesses & charities who interested in receiving a FREE flood survey and follow-up support to make their premises more resilient to flooding.
Our team will be based at Hessle Town Council’s offices on South Lane between 10am and 2pm, when local business owners, as well as representatives of charities and community groups, are encouraged to pop in for an informal chat with them. No need to book!
Hessle was flooded in the June 2007 floods, so staff at the Flood Innovation Centre are particularly keen to visit to raise awareness of the fully funded support that’s on offer to eligible businesses and charities. As well as offering free flood surveys, they can help eligible organisations to understand the findings of their survey and support them to make changes aimed at making their premises more resilient to flooding.
Property flood resilience is a term used to describe measures that reduce the risk of flood damage to properties, speed up the recovery process and enable people to get back into their properties quicker after flooding. These measures are installed in business premises, as well as people’s homes, to make them less vulnerable to flooding. Property flood resilience solutions are bespoke to each property; we can help you to identify the measures that are most appropriate for your premises and the type of flooding you face.
The Environment Agency estimates that the average cost of damage suffered by businesses during a flood event is around £82,000. As many as 40 per cent of businesses never reopen after being flooded, and a further 25 per cent of businesses that do reopen go on to fail within a year.
Part of the University of Hull, the Flood Innovation Centre is funded to provide support to eligible Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in several areas of the country, including East Yorkshire. However, eligible businesses are rapidly running out of time to take advantage of the funding that’s on offer because it comes from European Regional Development Fund and is only available for a few more months.
Business owners in the Hessle area, as well as representatives of charities and community groups, are encouraged to pop in to Hessle Town Council’s offices on South Lane on Thursday 2 March, between 10am and 2pm.
If you can’t make the drop-in, but want more information about the Flood Innovation Centre’s FREE services, please email flic@hull.ac.uk.
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