While most local businesses have either gone home or trimmed down to essential services, the Whanganui Peoples Centre is busier under lockdown.
The centre's core business is advocacy, support and advice for low-income earners and beneficiaries assisting with appointments and navigating their way through various agencies.
While the Ministry of Social Development has relaxed its processes during the lockdown, new challenges have sprung up, such as finding somewhere to live for prisoners just released by the courts and the Parole Board.
"As the lockdown happened and it became apparent what services weren't available and what was available," centre manager Sharon Semple said. "We're all navigating our way through that process at the moment. There are so many faculties within different agencies and police, MSD, probations and the council."
The centre manages relationships with Whanganui's homeless people for the council, including finding them somewhere to lockdown.