Budget service granted $10,000

Press, 23 September 1980, Page 6

Budget service granted $10,000

"A - - $lO,OOO ■ grant' froir Golden . ‘Kiwi profits will help prevent the Householc Budget and Advisory Service in Christchurch from closing. In July the ■ chairman ol the sendee’s management committee (Mr ■ " M.. > F Rogers) warned that/.-funds were running so low that the service might be forced to close. ‘Last month the committee was advised by the Directoi of Social Welfare in Christ church (Mr C. L. Waters) tc apply to the Welfare Ser vices Distribution Committei of the Internal Affairs De pprhnent for a grant. News qffthe grant arrived on Fri day, just in time for the sef vice’s annual meeting to bi field today,' 5 Mr .Rogers said he was de lighted with the news of th< grant'.

n The service’s statement of [j accounts, for the year ended . June 30 shows a total of a $5102 from grants,, against e $9322. the previous financial >- year. The main item of ex- : penditure was $7486 for the if salary of the service’s fullit time secretary-organiser,- Mr r . J. F. Maguire. s The service is still looking it for a more stable form of. i income and has been trying to involve the Canterbury e Retailers’ Association in a ,r scheme whereby a pert- centage of repaid debts o would ■be returned to the ■- service. Mr Rogers said that e the association had been !- “sympathetic” but so far s nothing definite had come of i- the talks. r- The service interviewed >e. 397 people with a total indebtedness of $349,343, of ;- whom 192 accepted the help ie of the service and repaid $219,490.