How we can finance our landscapes and communities in joined-up, responsive and really resilient ways.

We invite you to a Bioregional Finance Discussion Circle from 10.30-12.30 in person at Dunhill - or join for the core discussion from 11.00-12.00 online (zoom room open from 10.30).

If you come to Dunhill there will be a light lunch provided and we encourage you to stay for the afternoon’s Féasta na Feirme from 14.00 - 17:00 (separate registration required)

Bioregional Finance (BioFi) Discussion Circle 
Financing our futures in ways that just make sense! 

Our landscapes, soils, rivers and seas, and the communities they support, need coherent financial flows that work with people, place and nature. 'Bioregional Financing' is one way of framing the need for place-based investment in complex, interrelated portfolios of interventions for change.

Join us to consider what else can be done that might be missing from the bigger picture of financial policy and opportunities that currently exist for landscapes, seascapes in need of regeneration and restoration - agriculture, forestry, community and/or water focussed. 

Bioregioning South East Ireland has been busily experimenting with different kinds of financial interventions and analysis to see what works. We'd love to share these with you and hear what else you think we collectively could bring into the mix. 

Agenda: 

- Introduction to why place-based, (bio)regional and landscape finance could/should be a way forward. 

- Bioregional South East Ireland's toolkit and analyses: We'll share results from our Regranting Strategy (Catalyst, DO IT and Bioregional Basic Incomes and Infrastructure), our Bioregional Finance Analysis (written with Natural Capital Ireland) and first insights into from our 4 Returns Financial Assessment (written with Commonland) for ambitious levels of joined-up investment and financial flow. 

- Round-Table Input:  Participant contributions: Make a case for your favourite financial interventions. What are they, why they work and how they could be part of an integrated landscape finance ecosystem? 

- Next steps: a regular BioFi Discussion Circle in Ireland? Potential collaboration? 

We are delighted to be able to welcome some of our most valued international and Irish partners at this event: Corien Botman from De Roeper Funds, Ana Klaric from Commonland, Deirdre Lane and Karl Bryne from Natural Capital Ireland. We hope you too will be able to join.