Struggling? Help is at hand

NILS coordinator Peter Cole, St Vincent de Paul's Juliet Guy and Centrelink manager Julie Holden urge locals to reach out to the Financial Services team at Castlemaine Community House if they are in need of support.
NILS coordinator Peter Cole, St Vincent de Paul's Juliet Guy and Centrelink manager Julie Holden urge locals to reach out to the Financial Services team at Castlemaine Community House if they are in need of support.

The Castlemaine Community House (CCH) Financial Services team and local charities have expressed concern about what the end of the JobSeeker Coronavirus Supplement and JobKeeper will mean for locals struggling to make ends meet.
The local organisations feel that many local job seekers, low income earners and families will be feeling the pinch after the programs aimed at assisting jobseekers and businesses during covid dry up. They encourage locals struggling to make ends meet to reach out for the help of the services at CCH including Centrelink, the No Interest Loans Scheme (NILS), Financial Counselling and Job Ready Courses. See the latest Mail for the full story.

Lisa Dennis
Editor of the Castlemaine Mail newspaper and senior journalist on our sister paper the Midland Express. Over the last 24 years Lisa been proudly reporting news in the Mount Alexander and Macedon Ranges communities.