Bank of Ideas 2025
/Do you have an idea for something creative you’d like to make happen in your local area? This could be an interest you’d like to share, something you’d like to change with the help of your neighbours, or any fun activity that brings people together.
By submitting and sharing your idea, you can be in with a chance to get up to £2,000 to make it happen!
Lots of things can be creative. That includes recycling, baking, walking, stamp collecting, gardening, skateboarding, sewing, cutting hair, telling stories, caring for others, music, movies, nail art, teaching languages, bird watching, hopscotching and more…
The Bank of Ideas is run through participatory budgeting, which means that residents decide how public funds are used in their area. Individuals and groups can submit their creative idea for funding and the people of Belfast vote for projects they want to support at a voting event.
The overall Bank of Ideas funding pot is £50,000, which will be divided evenly between North, South, East, West Belfast and the city centre or citywide projects.
A minimum of 25 projects will be funded, each receiving up to £2000.
There is a short and simple form to fill out for your idea.
There will be a final celebration event bringing together all projects in December 2025.
For more information, please visit Bank of Ideas 2025 | Your say Belfast
