MNbS at the Northumbrian Innovation Festival 2026

The MNbS team are pleased to be running a sprint in collaboration with Mott MacDonald at this Year’s Northumbrian Innovation Festival, during which we will be tackling the question: How might we design a catchment resilience driver and test it through a regulatory sandbox framework, to enable nature-based solutions address catchment wide challenges and provide a model that could be taken forward through water reform?

The sprint will focus on developing a catchment resilience driver and testing it through a regulatory sandbox framework for catchment resilience. Participants will explore how such a sandbox could operate in practice, how it aligns with current policy direction, and how it could unlock nature-based solutions at scale. The sprint will apply the emerging framework to one or more real trial areas and develop the foundations of a formal proposal.

Registration for this event is now closed.