Mind Your Money

03/03/2023

📣Reopening SOON!
We're delighted to share the news that our beautiful building, The Visitors Centre has officially been deemed SAFE to enter! 🥳

Regarding The Gardens themselves, our staff, volunteers and trustees are working to reopen parts of The Gardens that are unscathed. Some parts of the Garden will remain closed for some time while we work on repairing and rebuilding.

Watch this space for more details about our reopening!

14/02/2019

Everyone has a number. What is your number? We could help you work out your financial freedom number on the Certificate in Money Management, a fees-free course at our Whangarei campus.

12/02/2019

The Road from Debt to Home Ownership - how one graduate did it through hard work and dedication.

"In 2016, I decided to take the bull by the horns and tackle my consumer debt once and for all. As a 40 something-year-old, Self-employed single mum of four, I found myself on my own and neck high in debt. I made the decision there‘s got to be more to life than this and I’m going to have to do the work to change it.

After a successful year studying the Certificate in Small Bussiness Management at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, I decided to enrol again in the Certificate in Money Management.

Fast forward to February 2019 and my first house as a single woman has just gone unconditional. It certainly hasn’t been easy. There have been lots of sacrifices, hard work and lots of putting the knowledge that I gained into action.

I pummeled the debt then did a visit to a mortgage broker - it wasn’t good news - with my KiwiSaver and no debt - I probably could get a 2 bedroom ramshackle shack in gang territory or a million miles away from the kids' school and friends.

Ok keep going - the saving started and creating more income was the name of the game.

I can tell you that getting that email that my house has gone unconditional couldn’t have been a better feeling.
I highly recommend you sign up to the Certificate in Money Management, no matter what stage you are at financially.

Now I’m getting ready to set new goals, looking into the future. I've got a mortgage to smash out and a retirement nest egg to build. I only wish I’d done that course earlier." J.H. - CMM Graduate

17/12/2018

Boxing day sale before Christmas??? 🤔🤔🤔

29/07/2018

Do you know you can apply Stephen Covey's time management quadrant to money management too? People often say time is money.

18/07/2018

Free meat pack on completion. 😀😀

Our next course is next week. NOTE meat pack on completion!

31/05/2018

Don't be that person who earns $100k+ and live in provety - join us on our next course and I promise we will provide you with the tools and resources to get ahead financially.

If you understand how money works - your money will start working for you.

COMMENT: When we believe $100k+ is not enough we have lost connection to reality.

21/05/2018

$AVE MONEY on YOUR POWER BILL!
Are your power bills too high? Discover how to save money on your next power bill. One night only….Wed 6 June. Registration essential. Ph 435 0889 or for further details visit http://www.cew.ac.nz/general.html

21/05/2018

What steps are you doing today to be one step closer to your goal?

Avoiding important financial decisions today can have a big impact on your finances tomorrow. Here’s how to stop procrastinating.

03/05/2018

Setting up a 30 year mortgage is like paying the minimum repayment on your credit card. - Why would you do that?

28/03/2018

How much do you pay in bank fees each month?

11/02/2018

One way of sizing up our money choices is to measure how much wellbeing we create.