Possible Clues:

• Manage (with few means)
• Improvise to produce a note
• Using what little is available, manage to arrange party
• Manage to produce fleece?
• Manage to get to social event
• Manage with. even if not satisfactory
• Manage to appoint duty officer initially
• Compel to act, having to improvise
• Makeshift, temporary
• Somehow manage to earn dosh? Not half!