FCERM project metrics and benefit areas

This guidance is for projects that have been funded through the Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) investment programme.

If you are preparing a bid for a new project opportunity, refer to Applying the 2025 FCERM funding policy: new project opportunity guidance and resources.

These guidance documents explain how to:

• refine your project benefit area
• calculate the new properties benefitting metric
• calculate the metrics that capture environmental improvements