Future Ready: Money Confidence 1
Building Strong Financial Foundations
This award-winning programme is designed to raise financial capability among Pacific people by exploring money through a cultural lens.
Learners gain practical tools for managing money, setting goals, and understanding spending habits – all in a supportive, relatable way that connects to Pacific values and everyday realities.
As the first in a two-part series, this programme lays the foundation for long-term financial wellbeing and confidence.
Watch Diversity Works NZ Video
Hear from Beatrice Clarke, Diversity Awards Judging Panel Chair, on why Upskills won the Impact Award for Future Ready Money Confidence and from Upskills previous Programme Manager, Tafā Iakopo.
Winner Diversity Awards NZ Impact Award 2022 and Best Adult Financial Education Project, Money Awareness and Inclusion Awards 2024
Learning
Graduates from this programme will be able to:
- Set financial goals
- Connect with the Fonofale model of wellbeing
- Understand the concept of compound interest
- Keep a spending diary
- Harness the power of saving
- Identify the real cost of debt
Format
How we deliver this programme for your organisation is flexible depending on your needs. Groups of 8-10 learners are ideal to work through a 16-hour programme together.
It can be delivered in weekly blocks of 2-hours or a more intensive programme, as you prefer. Training delivery is on-site at your organisation.
Talk to our team for more details
Contact Julie Tagaloa at Upskills on +64 21 129 3770 to find out more.
Testimonials
"Before the course, sometimes we would withdraw savings and use them because we didn’t have enough money, now we’re saving from my wages – that’s a good thing. We go to the shops and buy only the things that we need, we don’t buy everything."
Niusila, Van den Brinks – Course graduate

Our Other Project Ikuna Courses
- Project Ikuna: Money Confidence 2
- Project Ikuna: Life Online
- Project Ikuna: Life Online 2
- Project Ikuna: Wellbeing
- Project Ikuna: Kaitiakitanga (Sustainability)
- Project Ikuna: Introduction to Leadership
- Project Ikuna: Leadership Confidence
- Project Ikuna: Preparing For Your Retirement
- Project Ikuna: Confidence and Assertiveness
- Project Ikuna: Conflict Resolution
- Project Ikuna: Preparing For Home Ownership