Banknote design challenge for families and schools

Get the kids involved

Our next series of banknotes will feature images of wildlife native to the UK. An expert panel has helped us put together a shortlist of animals that could feature on them. 

We are asking the public to take part in our consultation and let us know which animals they would like to see on our banknotes. But we have also come up with a fun – and simple – way for the children of the UK to take part.  

Teachers and parents – download and print the worksheet below, and challenge the kids to design their own versions of the new banknotes. They can choose an animal from our shortlist and draw a picture to show us how it could look.

Design challenge worksheet

The shortlist

Mammals	Birds	Amphibians, insects and fish
bottlenose dolphin brown hare European hedgehog grey seal pine marten red fox	Atlantic puffin barn owl common kingfisher Eurasian curlew great spotted woodpecker white-tailed eagle	Atlantic salmon basking shark buff-tailed bumblebee common frog emperor dragonfly marsh fritillary butterfly

Scan and send your designs to banknotedesignchallenge@bankofengland.co.uk before 3 July 2026 and we will share some of our favourites on our social media channels. 

You can also post them to us at: 

Banknote Imagery Consultation
Notes Directorate
Bank of England
Threadneedle Street
London
EC2R 8AH 

Publication terms

What will be published?

The child’s banknote design artwork may be published with the child’s first name and school only. 

You must tell the Bank of England when you submit the banknote design artwork if you do not want the child’s first name and/or school to be published on our social media channels.  

Conditions of participation

You agree that by submitting your class’s/child’s banknote design artwork, the Bank of England (‘the Bank’) may share these designs on our official social media channels and/or our website.  

Copyright in the artwork remains with the child. By submitting the banknote design artwork, you grant the Bank a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use it for the purposes stated above and to grant sub-licences to media outlets for use in news reporting. 

Use by third parties

If a child’s banknote design artwork, first name and school are made public, third parties may access, share, or reproduce them outside the Bank’s control. The Bank is not responsible for any third-party use. 

Privacy and the Bank of England

The Bank will retain banknote design artwork and any personal details (including contact information) only for as long as they are needed for the stated purposes, after which they will be securely deleted.  

More information on how the Bank processes personal data, your privacy rights, and how to contact the Bank’s Data Protection Officer.