Help save our little ray of happiness open in Cuba Street!

$735 of $6,700 goal
Given by 16 generous donors in 12 weeks

Havilah Store located at 221 Cuba Street opened 2 years by Havilah at the age of 21 to bring a little more colour to the streets of Welly.

Wellington

We've come to the point where asking for help from our community is the only way we'll stay open and continue to share our beautiful store with locals.

Times have been very challenging for us, Covid-19 has caused massive worldwide shipping delays (along with an increase in missing parcels), rising costs, and dramatically reduced foot traffic in and around the CBD. We have dealt with extreme weather events, flooding (this has led to store water leakages and power outages as-well), staff shortages due to illness and little to no rent relief along with rent increases. All of this with the added challenge of running a first time business, has meant that times have become quite tough for our little family.

Debt has been rising as we strive to keep production going to stock our racks and shelves, constantly having to fix damages to the store due to leakages and keep the business running. We are reaching a point where we might have to close our doors if our situation doesn’t improve soon.

Asking for help isn’t exactly a strong point for us but we really love what we've built here and would love to keep it going! We know that times are tough for a lot of people out there, so we wanted to delay doing this for as long as possible, ideally avoiding it entirely. Unfortunately, the time has now come and we really need the community's help and support!

Use of funds

All money raised by this campaign will go towards keeping the store open. We want to pay off our debts with our landlord and have the cashflow to pay our staff so our store can be open more hours/days!

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Extending   22 August 2022

Just extending the closing of this page in the hopes of reaching our goal!

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Latest donations

Kirsta
Kirsta on 13 Aug 2022
From one small business owner to another ❤️
$100
Havilah Koledoye

Thank you so much for your donation, it means so much to me seeing how much you love the store!❤️

Havilah Koledoye
Beth
Beth on 10 Aug 2022
Not much but hope every little bit can help :-)
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Havilah Koledoye

Thank you so much for your donation, your support means the absolute world to me!❤️

Havilah Koledoye
Guest Donor
Guest Donor on 27 Jul 2022
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$60
Havilah Koledoye

Thank you so much for your donation, it means the absolute world to me seeing how much you love the store!❤️

Havilah Koledoye
Graham
Graham on 21 Jul 2022
$50
Havilah Koledoye

Thank you so much for your donation, your support means so much to me!❤️

Havilah Koledoye
Jade
Jade on 15 Jul 2022
Hope this helps Havilah!
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Havilah Koledoye

Thank you so much for your donation, your support means the absolute world to me!❤️

Havilah Koledoye

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This campaign started on 12 Jul 2022 and ended on 5 Oct 2022.