MoneyMates Fund Round 3

Paeroa Community Support

The project is ‘Cooking on a budget’ and will provide the opportunity to get unemployed youth in a group setting to learn practical skills on cooking and budgeting and provide help with financial management, parenting skills and referrals to other organisations that can assist with any other immediate needs. Testing a wrap-around approach as a way to reach youth.

$13,280.00

Kaipara Budgeting Service

To remove financial barriers to community members who are unable to access financial capability courses due to personal financial limitations. Run MoneyMates courses which will trial offering assistance with travel and child care and providing stationery packs with all the tools required to complete the courses to remove as many obstacles as possible for clients.

$10,527.12

Fale Pasifika O Aoraki Trust Society Inc

Hold a series of Fono with tenants from emergency housing programmes in Oamaru, Timaru and Ashburton based on MoneyMates modules tailored to the Pacific culture then segue Fono attendees into smaller MM groups. The uptake will be part of the learnings.

$46,000.00

Napier Family Centre

To tailor the MoneyMates programme to Women and children at the location of the emergency housing where they are staying. Triple S is an emergency housing provider in Napier catering for women and children under 14. Napier Family Centre will provide MoneyMates at the emergency housing location to test the value of having access to the MoneyMates programme while staying in emergency housing.

$5,449.95

Stopping Violence Dunedin

To make an impact on the level and incidence of family violence by reducing poverty. High needs families who sign up to the programme will participate in MoneyMates sessions which will be run by two facilitators. The participants will be assigned a MoneyMates navigator who will capture, measure and support families’ challenges, outcomes and record progress and regress. With follow up support given after the course finishes.

$49,305.00

Mid North Budgeting Services Trust

Run a feasibility study to see if supporting financially challenged community members by running a MoneyMates project in conjunction with providing tenancy support has a positive impact on financial capability. A project manager will be employed to engage in feasibility study activities such as visiting tenants in their homes, talking about the project in the local media.

$1,000.00

Waihi Budget Services

To weave MoneyMates modules into workshops delivered in an interactive way containing practical tips and guest speakers. A collaborative approach will allow Waihi Budgeting Services to gain a greater understanding of the community and their needs.

$2,570.00

Otamatea Community Services

To offer a free shuttle service to Whangarei for Work and Income client appointments and shopping trips. As well as the shuttle service there will be opportunities for the participants to access life coaching and mentoring as well as onsite days for the group to learn together. This will test the innovation of a bus service as a vehicle for building a peer community and increasing access to Work and Income services for clients and removing the obstacle making clients more likely to engage with financial services.

$10,000.00

Levin Budget Services

To tailor the MoneyMates programme to a Māori world view and deliver within a cultural or social context on marae within Horowhenua.

$2,587.00

Training and Budget Services

To run and test a programme transitioning clients out of total money management and into managing their own finances by employing a staff member who will co-ordinate the transition process for clients. They will assess the clients’ vulnerability, refer to financial literacy courses, attend 1:1 sessions with the clients and review barriers to the clients exiting the total money management programme.

$35,000.00

MUMA Whānau Ora Services Ltd

Provide accessible BFC services to vulnerable whānau living in struggling suburbs. Participants will attend sessions tailored around Kaupapa Māori values including manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and rangatiratanga. The applicant will provide assistance to whānau struggling with challenges such as finding child care, transportation to attend MoneyMates groups etc. They will do this by providing petrol vouchers to assist with transport and providing supervised childcare for participants.

$10,000.00

Affirming Works

To test sessions to groups of 12-15 adults tailored to a Pacific faith-based audience. The graduates of the first programme become ‘enablers’ who will share their learning with other families to create a group for their own peer support.

$25,664.70

Tupoho Iwi and Community Social Services

To modify the MoneyMates programme with a youth focus and deliver it using a wananga approach by holding three rangatahi wananga on the marae of Parikino, Putiki and Kaiwhaiki using the modified MoneyMates programme.

$11,000.00

Waiuku Family Support Network

To trial the value of a follow up with clients 4-8 weeks following being ‘“closed’ from our system. A budgeter will follow up with clients once they have left the system to review how they are doing and identify areas that are working well and any that they require assistance with including any referrals to specialist services e.g. addictions, housing, employment etc.

$1,638.00