Independent candidate David Pollard said his campaign was entirely self-funded but hoped to see political donation reform to make the process more transparent.

"I can tell you that at the moment that all of my donations come from one place, and that's myself," Mr Pollard, speaking at a public forum for minor parties organised by the Canberra Progressives party on Thursday night, said.

Belco Party leader Bill Stefaniak told the forum businesses in Canberra were afraid of donating significant amounts of money to minor parties because of the political consequences.

Mr Stefaniak, a former Liberal Opposition leader who is running again for the seat of Ginninderra, said people were scared of Chief Minister Andrew Barr and the current ACT government victimising them if they were named as donors to other parties.

"This isn't the Soviet Union, it is not Nazi Germany, or fascist Italy, or fascist Japan, or communist China, or North Korea. This is Canberra, Australia, one of the most democratic countries in the world," Mr Stefaniak said.

"It annoys me, and scares me, quite frankly, the amount of people who are scared actually to make donations because they don't want to be named.

"You might say they should put their money where their mouth is - yep, maybe that's true too. But it's an interesting phenomenon I've found in terms of us seeking donations."

Mr Stefaniak said his party had mostly received a series of small donations, which he did not have to disclose. Three donations over $1000 had come from personal friends, he said.

"There are lots of little people - ordinary working people in Belconnen - who are coming forward and donating us money. It's not much. The biggest amount of money so far, I don't hide it, is $10,000 I've lent the party, so we could get corflutes and things like that," he said.

"Little parties don't get big donations."

Mr Stefaniak said the party would love to get donations but would likely say no to money offered by tobacco companies.

"We will not take donations from the Communist Chinese Party, nor would we take donations from [Russian president] Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, or the fat man in North Korea," he said.

"We would obviously take donations from any legitimate, legal Australian association."

Canberra Progressives candidate Robert Knight said his party would not accept more than $4000 from anyone in a four-year period.

"We also have restrictions on which businesses, organisations, etc, can donate to the party ... fossil fuels, development industry, gambling industry, tobacco, that kind of thing," Mr Knight said.

"We have a rigid adherence to ethics and integrity and our donations policy reflects that."

Mr Knight said donations of more than $150 would be self-declared by the party within 14 days on its website, and the party would not accept donations from sources it deemed unethical.

Community Alliance Party candidate Dr Alvin Hopper joked the form from the ACT Electoral Commission asking his party to disclose donations over $1000 was the easiest to fill out, having never had to report a large donation.

"We are concerned that there is not sufficient transparency and we would favour a scheme to make sure donations, particularly from developers and other big business interested parties, they all come to light," Dr Hopper said.

The Legislative Assembly last week passed legislation banning donations to political parties from developers.

Labor has not accepted donations from developers since 2016, while the Liberals received funds from one development company in 2018-19.