MoneyMates Fund Round 1

Napier Family Centre

Introduce MoneyMates to parents/caregivers increasing their capability to talk with teens and young adults about money matters.

$2000

The UMMA Trust

Empower refugee families to achieve financial independence while working in a way that considers cultures and religious values. The learnings will be developed into a web-based resource for communities and agencies to use.

$15,000

Wairoa Financial Literacy Service Inc

Deliver MoneyMates modules weaving in NCEA unit standards (for participants that are willing or able) allowing participants to gain qualifications to assist in progressing their financial capability.

$25,000

Whakatu Te Korowai Manaakitanga Trust

Deliver MoneyMates to clients based on Kaupapa Maori adding a ‘homemade’ module with practical advice on how to make ‘do it yourself’ household products and gifts.

$20,000

Te Runanga o Whaingaroa Conditionally approved

Develop a MoneyMates programme tailored for their communities needs. Budget navigators will deliver the newly developed educational sessions to assist the client group to reduce debt and work towards financial freedom.

$20,000

Whakaatu Whanunga Trust

Take an innovative approach to shared financial learning and development by a series of incentivised and digitally recorded coffee morning sessions where participants work through the MoneyMates modules and share learnings via multi media outlets.

$15,000

Jubilee Budget Advisory Service

Start conversations with long term beneficiaries and low income families about their financial wellbeing and increase their financial knowledge.

$14,420

Wellbeing Charitable Trust

To build stronger money sense in the Asian community and help them to understand how money can work for them and how they can access services to build their financial capability.

$13,440

Matamata Household Budget Advisory Service

Run community group workshops about building financial capability with rewards for participants to build a supportive group culture. As well as develop a simple online learning environment using scaled down MoneyMates modules that can be shared throughout the community allowing participants to access information online.

$9,000

Te Awa Ora Trust

To coordinate a community conversation around finances with a focus on housing to see if whanau are accessing financial help services and how effective the services are to help inform and develop ideas for additional MoneyMates resources.

$24,761.50

Rotorua Budget Advisory Service

Part 1 of a three-part project that will employ a market researcher to identify previously unreached groups that they can approach and provide MoneyMates at community venues.

$2,000