Agape Budgeting Service Ltd

About

Free budgeting advice for individuals and families in financial difficulty. Giving people the skills and resources to manage their money well.

Story

Agape is a Wellington based charity set up by the Community Christian Charitable Trust.

Our budgeting service is a comprehensive service, designed to support clients through difficult financial situations and give them the skills and resources to pay off debt and manage their money more effectively in the long term.

Clients learn how to set up and balance a budget, manage their weekly, monthly and annual expenses using a cash flow, and set up a series of bank accounts to support their budgeting. Our advisors help clients to negotiate with their creditors to agree repayment amounts they can afford, as well as working with Work and Income to ensure clients are receiving their correct benefit entitlements.

We work with our clients as long as they want help. This could be anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 years. Our services are 100% free for our clients and are delivered by comprehensively trained volunteers, mostly in the client’s home.

Meeting our clients in their own homes provides a unique opportunity to identify other needs they might have and connect them up to other services and their local communities.

Agape is a Member of Christian Budgeting NZ.