THE PROJECT The SFI project takes an innovative catchment scale approach to natural flood and water management in a lowland catchment. We help to deliver multiple benefits to communities and wildlife by using a range of landscape restoration techniques, to create long term, low impact, sustainable and low cost solutions which reduce downstream flood peaks and support sustainable land use, alongside traditional flood risk management. Since 2012, the Sussex Wildlife Trust, the Environment Agency and the Woodland Trust have been delivering this partnership project called the Sussex Flow Initiative - www.sussexflowinitiative.org. In 2016 Lewes District Council also joined the team. Locally, we hope this role will become part of a growing team of NFM practitioners responding to flood and droug