KBC extends the deadline for Galway’s Bright Ideas
KBC Bank has extended the deadline for community groups in Galway to apply for funding through its Bright Ideas programme.
A total fund of €100,000 is available for creative projects that can demonstrate tangible ways to transform, improve or rejuvenate any aspect of Irish community life. And with enquiries still pouring in, KBC is giving community projects until May 31 to get their applications in.
The applications submitted to date show that community groups are asking for help to fund projects that can improve physical and mental wellbeing, create better civic spaces, protect people online and provide for youth initiatives.
KBC is seeing a trend across the following four aspects of community life:
- Bright Lives: From companionship for the elderly to arts groups and mental health initiatives, these projects are working to make a difference to the mental and physical wellbeing of communities.
- Bright Spaces: From regeneration projects to sports grounds and civic spaces, physical improvements to our immediate environment that can benefit the entire community.
- Bright Technology: With ideas for apps, technology support for the elderly, kids and parents, there is a clear desire to create a safer online community.
- Bright Youth: Through music and song, sport and drama, these projects are using the arts to create vibrant communities that reach out to younger members in particular.
With just over three weeks to go, KBC is encouraging community leaders in the Galway region who have an innovative idea or progressive project to get in touch and be in with a chance of securing funding, with multiple winners to be selected across the country.
In addition, ten winners will be selected by KBC’s judging panel to enter a public vote for Ireland’s ‘Brightest Idea’, with an additional €5,000 funding reserved for the overall winning project.
Applications to KBC’s Bright Ideas can be submitted through the bank’s easy to use online portal at www.kbcbrightideas.com where you can also view last year’s winning projects – or pop in to the KBC Hub at 124 Eyre Square Centre.