Our Flood Resilient Garden is to be permanently rehomed to Howbery Park after this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, subject to planning approval. Howbery is a particularly fitting venue for the Flood Re: Flood Resilient Garden, given that it is owned by HR Wallingford, an organisation that helps develop resilient approaches to flooding. The aim is for the garden be open to visitors, free of charge, at its Oxfordshire home from spring 2025. HR Wallingford and garden sponsors Flood Re believe embedding the garden at Howbery will offer lots of people the chance to enjoy and benefit from it. For t ..read more

One of the show gardens for RHS Chelsea 2024 is the Flood Resilient Garden designed by Naomi Slade and Ed Barsley for Flood Re. It offers tips for managing water flow in an ordinary garden such as planting an apple tree on a mound, a traditional way of preventing plants from becoming water-logged. Read The Daily Mail article here The post Work with the weather to save your plants from water-logging appeared first on Flood Re ..read more

The garden is designed to be a relatable, enjoyable and beautiful space, and to help reduce flood risk and to recover quickly after periods of heavy rainfall. Read the Royal Horticultural Society article here The post The Flood Resilient Garden appeared first on Flood Re ..read more

We have been announced as one of the Top Insurance Employers in the UK by Insurance Business UK (IBUK) for a second year running. The award recognises our commitments to staff health and wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, flexible working, career development, incentive programs and a number of other factors. We also scored 83% in a staff satisfaction survey conducted by IBUK to be crowned among the 2024 winners. Jenny Cooper, Director of HR at Flood Re, said: “I am thrilled that Flood Re has been chosen as a IBUK Top Insurance Employer for the second year running. This continued recognition s ..read more

Welcome to our new look Downstream News!  We are pleased to be launching our quarterly newsletter.  We’ve been very busy over at Flood Re HQ, and have some exciting updates below including the recent launch of our newest Transition Plan.  A big part of our exit from the market in 2039 is to get everyone ready for a world without Flood Re so we are focusing on how best to make that happen. I hope you enjoy reading our updates – feel free to share with your colleagues and should you have any questions the team and I would love to hear from you at events@floodre.co.uk&n ..read more

Read the Reinsurance News article here. The post Flood Re names Bridget Rosewell as new Chair appeared first on Flood Re ..read more

Read the Insurance business article here. The post Flood Re names new chair appeared first on Flood Re ..read more

Bridget Rosewell CBE, FICE, MA, MPhil has been appointed to the Board of Flood Re as Non-Executive Director (NED) and Chair-Designate. New chair brings extensive and valuable experience in economics, regulation, and the development of strategic policy across a wide range of stakeholders, including investors, regulators, and government. Out-going chair Mark Hoban, who will step down in September 2023 at the end of his term successfully oversaw the creation, authorisation, and effective delivery of Flood Re’s purpose. Bridget Rosewell has been appointed as Non-Executive Director and Chair-De ..read more

Read the Insurance Times article here. The post Flood Re grows policy numbers and GWP despite profit drop appeared first on Flood Re ..read more

Read the Insurance Post article here. The post Flood Re aims to make Build Back Better the industry standard within a year appeared first on Flood Re ..read more