Good Cents Porirua - Business Plan released

Posted by Peter Mitchell on 23 August 2011 | 0 Comments

Tags: Good Cents, Porirua, Debt management, budget advice, budgeting, financial literacy, debt consolidation

The Porirua Good Cents Initiative emerged from local conversations at the height of the economic boom in 2007. Members of the Wesley Community Action Board were surprised that despite economic growth and high employment rates, demand for the Wesley Porirua foodbank remained high.

Close relationships with families utilising WCA’s foodbank revealed that many of these families were trapped in a cycle debt that was rapidly reducing their financial wellbeing. Conversations with these families revealed the huge impact this financial stress was having on the individuals concerned, their families and the community as a whole.

Good Cents emerged as a locally grown response to this concern about debt and has sort to grow into a community owned initiative that is focussed on transforming systems and structures in our community that create unsustainable debt. Good Cents is about working collaboratively, across the whole community to identify how together each of our contributions can make a difference.

Good Cents Porirua is working to increase the financial stability of individuals, families and our community to protect and grow wealth and well-being.

The Good Cents ‘Business Plan’,  sets out who the core leadership team comprise of as well as the stakeholders and supportersof the initiative. It states our strategic goals which are supported by annual actions plans.

The Good Cents ‘Business Plan”  is a living and evolving plan that sets our horizons at a better future but is prepared for the shape of those horizons to change and shift.

It provides us with a framework for further thinking and development of Good Cents and accountability to our supporters, funders and the community

To receive a PDF copy of the Good Cents ‘Business Plan’, click here.