DownStreams is a social enterprise that connects upstream and downstream communities to prevent flooding. It links communities financially and socially to provide flood prevention opportunities through crowdfunding and volunteering. The social enterprise helps communities understand flood risks, funds upstream prevention projects, and enables volunteering like tree planting. The goals are to reduce flood risk, improve the environment, bring communities together, and increase company and public engagement and funding for solutions.

1. DownStreams
A social enterprise providing a link between
downstream communities that flood &
upstream communities that could prevent it

4. Why? Catchment Management
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Looking at the whole river system
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Preventing water entering the river
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Absorbing the water upstream
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Creating urban sustainable drainage
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Kickstartr + facebook + flood prevention!

5. What? The Social Enterprise
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Joins up flooded & upland communities
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Links them together
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Financially
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Socially
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Provides a link to local & national business
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Peacetime volunteering to prevent floods

6. How? What we do...
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Aid understanding of community flood risk
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Crowdfunding of upstream flood prevention
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Opportunities for business funding
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Clear demographic of affected people
Corporate social responsibility match funds
Enabling volunteering opportunities
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Tree planting upstream

7. Catchment overview

8. Localised view
Tree planting
volunteer opportunity
Cost: Free
Culvert repair
Cost: £21,500

9. So? Outcomes...
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Flood risk reduced
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Environment enhanced in catchment
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Communities joined up
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Greater community engagement of firms
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Enhanced funding from companies & public