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IN NEED OF VOLUNTEERS By Susan Sandys
susan.s@theguardian.co.nz
Ashburton Budget Advisory Service is hoping to recruit new volunteers as the need for the service remains as strong as ever. The service has two paid advisors and four volunteers, but would ideally like to take on an extra one or two “special” people with good communication skills. One of the paid advisors is Jeannette
Molloy. She said the person or people they are looking for would have to have commitment, in order to be able to dedicate at least two to three hours each week, as well as flexibility, as meeting clients’ needs was not always possible at a set time each week. On top of that they needed patience, as some clients did not always turn up when they were supposed to. Cases had become much more complex than they
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were when she first started at the service in 2012. There were other things going on in clients’ lives, which would often need attending to before their budget could be worked out. “It does take a special sort of person,” Molloy said.
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