Back in 2017, I was running informal budget workshops from my kitchen table. Friends would come over, we'd have coffee, and I'd help them figure out where their money was actually going. One evening, someone asked me why this kind of straightforward advice wasn't available everywhere. Good question.

So we set up rymalexovira the following year. The name came from wanting people to feel like they had control over their own financial rymalexovira—not some abstract concept, just their actual day-to-day money decisions. We started with weekend sessions at the Shire Community Centre, teaching maybe eight people at a time.

What surprised us most was how many people had never actually built a contingency plan. They had savings, sure, but no real strategy for when the car needed repairs or the roof started leaking. That became our focus—helping people prepare for the stuff that inevitably happens.

Now we're planning our 2026 programmes and still working from the same community centre. We could have moved to fancier premises, but there's something about the setting that keeps things grounded. People relax more when they're not walking into a corporate office building.