By the end of the workshop, Councillors will:

• Understand what evidence and best practice tells us about how to invest to support and achieve environmental gain.
• Have a greater understanding of how this fund and funding mechanism could impact local TA’s, community stakeholders and other funders.
• Discuss a definition of ‘large-scale’ and the high-level criteria that will form this definition from the Otago context.
• Discuss on the ideal long-term aspiration of the Council for the future model of funding – determine the ‘end game’. 
• Understand the implications and timing of the implementation of the large-scale fund in relation to the ORC Biodiversity Strategy refresh.
• Be more familiar with the range of funding mechanisms available, their strengths and risks, the potential long-term impacts and considerations, and insight into how the model is currently working in practice.
• Identify and agree a short list of funding model options, based on an assessment against risk, value, cost and effort, that require further investigation for the final report to be presented to Council in May 2025.