Mangere Budgeting Services Trust

 

Budgeting & Family Support Services (also known as Mangere Budgeting Services Trust), provides educational programmes on:

· Free Financial Literacy Programme / Educational Budgeting Seminars

· Free Healthy Lifestyles Programme

· Free Supermarket Shopping Tours

 

Financial Literacy:

What this course delivers: Financial education is the teaching and learning that leads to financial literacy by creating awareness and also teaching personal money management and budgeting skills to individuals and families.

OBJECTIVE: To empower people through financial education and foundational budgeting skills made effective with follow up and ongoing support.

PHILOSOPHY: "If you give a man a fish you feed him for a day - if you teach him how to fish you feed him for a lifetime"

 

FINANCIAL LITERACY AND BUDGETING WORKSHOPS -3 WEEK COURSE

3 weeks of 1 ½ hour sessions delivered at Budgeting & Family Support Services Mangere @ 59B Mahunga Drive, Mangere.

Week 1 - Learn to prepare and balance a household budget, understand habitual behaviours and learn how to change bad habits. We also teach goal setting and planning for the future

Week 2 - Preparing and planning Cash-flow. Learn how and where to save money. Understand Kiwisaver, retirement and insurances

Week 3 - Learn about borrowing: credit, debt and contracts. How to get out of debt early and stay out of debt. Understanding what security is, repossessions and what being a guarantor truly means

NB: Students will receive a Certificate of Attendance when they have attended all three sessions.

We can also design Financial Literacy classes to meet the need of the audience. These can be a condensed or a comprehensive presentation covering the main aspects of financial literacy as above. We also cover aspects such as investing (we do not give Financial Advice we only discuss the topic), Kiwi Saver, buying your first home, mortgages and how to teach the kids money skills. Giving pocket money to children and teaching them to save a percentage of tit on a regular basis will teach them how to save long-term.

The purpose of these classes and seminars is to create the awareness of the various aspects of one's financial life and shows you 'how to' be and stay in control of your money. Attendees will receive support material so they can put into practice everything they will learn in class.

For more information on the above programme please contact us on 09 - 275 2266 or email us: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Healthy Lifestyles Programme:

 

We are extremely pleased to have received funding from Counties Manukau District Health Board to deliver a Healthy Lifestyles Programme, which delivers cooking demonstrations, offers advice on good nutrition and also supermarket tours, where individuals and families learn how to shop smarter, buy healthier food and make the dollars stretch further; thereby Creating Better Futures.

"A large number of people simply don't know how to cook, bottom line. They certainly don't know how to cook on a budget and putting good healthy and nutritious food on the table is often out of the reach of many families" says Darryl Evans, Chief Executive of Budgeting & Family Support Services, Mangere. "But people do want to come and learn. They want to acquire the skills needed to self-manage and provide better futures for their children".

The goal of the Healthy Lifestyles Programme is that families learn to live healthier lives and also go on to teach their children how to make better choices regarding what it is they buy from the supermarket and how to make tasty and affordable meals.

We teach people how to look for bargains in the supermarket. How to make healthier choices when buying food and how to plan your meals for the week ahead. Shopping smarter teaches people how to make wiser choices and stretch each dollar further. We also teach people how to read food labels, so you know what you're buying, what salt content or fat content is in each item you purchase.

What we do know is that many families currently struggle with the ever-rising cost of living as and putting healthy food on the table can be extremely expensive. What we are hoping to show people is that it doesn't have to be too expensive if you plan your meals, take time when shopping, make healthier decisions around what you eat and put into practice everything you learn from our Healthy Lifestyles Coordinator and Nutritionist, Julie Ash. Healthy living can be affordable!

 

For more information on the above programme please contact us on 09 - 275 2266 or email us: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it