‘Every Time it Rains’, a new play about the 2007 floods and its effect on local people, opens at Hull Truck Theatre on June 18th and runs until July 4th. Rupert Creed, a member of the deepwaterhull team  has based a lot of the play on stories gathered through the project. He said ‘the fantastic range and quality of stories gathered as part of the deepwaterhull  project, has given me the opportunity to write a play which authentically and acurately portrays what happened during the floods and the aftermath’. For more information go to http://www.hulltruck.co.uk/whats-on/drama?action=view&id=10

deepwaterhull is a city-wide project that documents the Hull 2007 Flood through the stories of the people who lived through it. The project will produce a lasting archive of video, audio and photographic material documenting the personal experiences and consequences- emotional, practical and financial- of the participants. We will also collect uplifting stories of communities coming together to help and support each other. This material will be made available via this website as well as a book and DVD produced at the end of the project.

This project is run alongside another British Red Cross funded project also co-ordinated by Jellycat Media which is providing mental health awareness training to organizations and communities affected by floods. There is emerging anecdotal evidence in Hull that the impact of flooding is having an effect practically and psychologically on residents of the city particularly given the time it is taken for many to move back into their homes. Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a new national training programme which was developed in Australia and is being rolled out across England. MHFA increases the confidence of members of the general public to provide a listening ear to people who are in distress and give advice on self help strategies/ materials as well as the knowledge to signpost them to professional support services should it be necessary. Courses are run across the city.