Gain tips and knowledge about financial wellbeing, discover our latest updates and pilot projects, and hear from people who have used our services.
Toolkit to improve financial conversations between partners
14/06/2021
We’ve partnered with the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) to develop a toolkit to help you have successful and effective conversations about money with your partner. Money can
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Supporting people to overcome economic harm
03/06/2021
We’re combining our knowledge of financial wellbeing and economic harm to support New Zealanders through financial difficulties and abuse. Our Economic Harm Advisor has
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Creating access to affordable car insurance
14/05/2021
We have partnered with Vero to trial a car insurance product that addresses the gap for clients without insurance. We noticed our clients using a
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Why conversations about money matter
21/06/2021
Healthy financial conversations with your partner are just as important as any other relationship conversation. Without regular conversations about how money and resources will be
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How is DEBTsolve different?
16/06/2021
DEBTsolve is designed to help you take back control of your unmanageable debt. We explore DEBTsolve in detail to find out what makes our programme stand
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Should you use a ‘buy now, pay later’ service?
01/06/2021
Services such as Afterpay have given us the opportunity to purchase goods we might not ordinarily be able to buy – however, there are a
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Perspective: experiencing economic harm
08/06/2021
Economic harm can be invisible and the controlling behaviours that inflict this harm often feel inescapable and create hostile environments. Sarah shares her economic harm
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How DEBTsolve helped get me back on my feet
28/04/2021
From having a stable job to relying on benefit payments – this is the story of Hannah, who fell into bad debt but found her independence again
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A life changing impact
08/04/2021
Maria’s Good Loan gave her the confidence to smile again, all while keeping her car on the road. Maria had been looking for a no and
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Discover what other financial support is available from other organisations.
Research: Economic abuse in New Zealand
Good Shepherd NZ worked with the specialist research team based at Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand to establish an understanding of economic abuse in New Zealand.
Evaluation: Community finance initiative
Malatest International undertook an evaluation of Good Shepherd NZ’s no and low interest loans scheme.
Evaluation: No interest loans scheme
The evaluation of the pilot no interest loans scheme reports on microfinance as a family violence response.
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