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    What we do

    The expert financial mentors at NSBS provide confidential and personalised support and advocacy services to help Kiwis manage their money, reduce debt, and set budgets and long-term goals so they can get control of their financial future.
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    Who we serve

    All Kiwis are eligible for our confidential and customised financial mentoring services to help set budgeting goals, manage day-to-day money issues, and reduce debt and the heavy burden of financial stress so that they can live happier, healthier lives.
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    How we work

    Mentors work with individuals or families face-to-face or via video, phone or email to grow their financial resilience and capability. We provide services at Citizens Advice Bureaus, and also offer corporate mentoring at workplaces as an individual employee wellness benefit.
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    Financial capability experts

    As the trusted leader in financial capability, NSBS has been helping Kiwis for more than 30 years, and is one of New Zealand’s only providers of both BFC and BFC-Plus (TMM) financial mentoring services.
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    Building financial resilience

    Finance is one of the biggest causes of mental health problems in New Zealand – especially in a cost of living crisis. NSBS helps Kiwis struggling with debt and gives them the peace of mind of knowing that they can make ends meet and pay the bills.

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BFC

The Building Financial Capability (BFC) programme helps people and whānau to improve their financial wealth and wellbeing and get control of their money. We help set goals, relieve financial stress and debt, and increase cash flow and long-term savings.
The Building Financial Capability Plus programme, also called Total Money Management (TMM), is a holistic and all-encompassing money management service that improves the wellbeing of people and whānau by protecting their financial future.

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NSBS Mentor Academy

All NSBS financial mentors are professionally trained and fully accredited by FinCap, the non-governmental national body, and licensed to work in the financial capability sector. NSBS runs an independent school where students undergo the intensive and accredited Financial Mentor Training Course (FMIC). The NSBS Mentor Academy is the nation’s leading provider of financial mentor training.

‘I got myself out of debt and now I mentor others’

Jane Be knows what it is like to feel the shame, embarrassment and helplessness of being in debt and the overwhelming stress of trying to find a way out.

“I didn’t tell anyone about my debt. Not my family. Not my friends. I felt ashamed. It was really hard to hold on to those emotional feelings, and even though my debt was relatively small, it still took me a long time to pay off and a big toll on my health and wellbeing,” she said.

 

The payroll executive worked overtime and took on extra jobs to pay off her debt. She felt alone and spent many sleepless nights worrying about money. “I didn’t know budget mentoring existed at the time,” Jane said. “Now I know there are specialists like NSBS who are happy to listen and help you through your money problems with no bias and no judgement.”

 

The sense of liberation when the arrears were paid off was immense. So much so, Jane felt her reward was to give back to her community and to let others like her know that help is available. 

 

Jane signed up to the NSBS mentor school and successfully completed the Financial Mentor Introductory Course (FMIC), an intensive training programme for people wanting to become a financial mentor. Jane graduated top of her class, and now she volunteers at NSBS every week to help others who find themselves in a financial predicament. She’s proud of how far she has come, and wants others to feel that same sense of self-worth and freedom from money stress.

 

“I got myself out of debt and now I mentor others. It’s a fulfilling, rewarding role and a privilege.”

 

If you would like to book a financial mentoring session with Jane, or with any other NSBS financial mentor, please contact info@nsbs.co.nz or 0800 283 238.

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      BFC

      The Building Financial Capability (BFC) programme helps people and whānau to improve their financial wealth and wellbeing and get control

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      BFC Plus

      The Building Financial Capability Plus programme, also called Total Money Management (TMM), is a holistic and all-encompassing money management service

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  • Partnerships

      Grace Foundation

      Grace Foundation offers safe shelter and holistic rehabilitation services to marginalised people including the homeless, single parents, children without parents,

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      Te Puna Hauora

      Our successful strategic partnership with Te Puna Hauora has allowed NSBS to deliver one-on-one BFC financial mentoring services to clients

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      Seniors

      NSBS is one of the only financial mentoring organisations in the country that caters especially to seniors and retirees to

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      Library Programme

      Our partnership with Auckland Council Libraries, in collaboration with ASB Bank, will see the rollout of a pioneering programme offering

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      Māori and Pasifika

      NSBS continues to improve the outcomes of Māori and Pacific Island clients and whānau and meet their holistic financial mentoring

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      Women

      NSBS is committed to helping women attain financial independence and security for themselves and their families.Through our BFC programme and

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      Youth

      NSBS is committed to fostering financial capability among school-leavers to provide money skills and knowledge for employment preparedness. NSBS financial

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