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Welcome to your Winter 2025/6 Ousewem newsletter
Follow our journey towards a flood-resilient future in North Yorkshire's Swale, Ure, Nidd, and Ouse (SUNO) catchments. We're bringing innovative solutions to flood and water environment management, ensuring our communities are better prepared and protected.
Across the rivers, catchments and landscapes of North Yorkshire, Ousewem is turning learning into action as the programme continues to March 2027. Work on the ground, improved evidence and public-facing projects are shaping how people and places live with water now and adapt for the future.
 Looking ahead to 2026
As we move into the final year of the programme, our emerging priorities centre on scaling delivery, strengthening the evidence behind natural flood management (NFM) and making that work more visible and useful to communities and decision-makers.
Watch our most recent compilation to see how Ousewem’s work is evolving. It brings together our film series including land managers' challenges, monitoring, modelling, partnership delivery and emerging green finance thinking, showing how local action is shaping flood-resilient landscapes across North Yorkshire
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Delivery in action
Our delivery team, led by YDRT, continues to work with land managers and implement NFM that responds to local conditions.
Their most recent update shares what is being delivered, what is proving effective on the ground and how learning is feeding back into wider catchment thinking.
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Seeing NFM in action
At the recent Yorkshire NFM CoP – Winter Webinar, our delivery team shared a virtual walkthrough of the Hauxwell Estate. Drone and 360-degree footage give a unique view of NFM in action, showing how measures are being delivered across the site.
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Measuring success
Understanding impact matters as much as delivery. Discover how we are exploring more meaningful approaches to monitoring NFM, moving beyond simple counts towards evidence that supports better decisions, long-term investment and confidence in nature-based solutions (NbS).
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York rivers trail, shaped by young people
Schools across York are helping shape the York rivers trail, bringing local knowledge, creativity and curiosity into how people connect with the city’s rivers. Their involvement reinforces that flood resilience is not just technical, it is cultural, educational and rooted in place.
News from our partners
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Flooding and mental health
Have you been flooded, or do you live in a West Yorkshire community at risk of flooding? Researchers at the University of Huddersfield want to hear from you.
Deadline: 31 January 2026
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Make sure you don't miss out
Never miss an update - visit our news page to explore all the latest developments.
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