Moments With Growth & Development

By Rachel Peterson

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Moments With Growth & Development

Project 2022-03-10 15:18:05 +1300

Moments With Growth & Development is a 30 day campaign made to fund the accessibility and growth of our already established gift box company Moments With Love. We run a successful disability owned business that creates & curates gift boxes that contain disability owned and social enterprise products. Not only that, our boxes come with cherishable memories, moments to enjoy with the ones you love most! Very recently we have been put in a tough situation, Easter Sunday we were given 21 days to find a new store. We are currently a small team of three (+ volunteers) with a lot of work on our hands. We would be most appreciative of any  help we could get with the funding of this relocation and would love the oppurtunity to expand! By supporting our campagin - we would be able to employ people with and without disabilities and give them an oppurtunity. We believe the disabled community deserves much more! We want to continue this work, we feel we are just warming up... Can you help us reach $35K in 30 days?

On the 3rd December 2021 with the help of family & friends, we were able to open a pop up store in Silverdale. This was a risk as we had no idea how it might play out + covid, but within 9 weeks of hard work we were able to give back $10,000 to the disability community! Our goal is to continue to do this on a bigger scale and is the main reason for our campaign!

 

About our project & What the funding will go towards 


- At least $10,000 of this funding will help Moments With Love make their new store accessible including their toilet, reception counter and also fund their temperature control. As of recently on Easter Sunday we were given 21 days notice to vacate our old premises. It was always our plan to move to a more accessible location, but due to this our circumstances have become urgent. We have already found a new shop in Orewa which is perfect for us! It only needs a few more accessible features which is what our funding will help go towards. The main feature that is not currently accessible is our toilet. We need to renovate and adjust some of the walls behind the store to make this toilet accessible for ourselves and customers with disabilities. Our new workspace would provide accessiblity for parking and accessible entry spaces. With the old workspace also being uninsurable it meant we could not sub lease our space to people who would make good use of it - which is something we would love to do. Many of our partners already run workshops and tutorials (cupcake making, mandella art classes, knitting circles) to name a few. We would love to be able to host these in our space while we are not using it. We feel this would promote community connection as well as disability and diversity awareness. Helping us helps the community

$2,000 to $5,000 we would like to dedicate to work experience opportunities that we hope will lead to the employment of disabled people. The employment of disabled people, people with mental health and people with other barriers to employment. To be able to help them work with a living wage and create support for those who need it. We have close links with YES disability and Project Employ and can easily make this a reality! We have always envisoned having a team of people similar to us help us in our store and we believe by giving them the opportunity it will boost self esteem in the community as a whole. We would love to give them the opportunity! And if they would like the option to learn about how to start a small business themselves - we would like to help them achieve that. Already we have the Chris Love Foundation which is set up and ready to distribute micro loans & mentorship to those who need it & will be independently looked over by the team.

- To save the laugh and fuss we would kindly like to redirect you to our social media pages (@momentswithlovenz) as our current website isn't all that jazz. We've spent time and money in upgrading our website but it is not up to the standard we need at all! Many people have come to us confused and skeptic and we at MWL want to fix this urgently. We desperately need a website upgrade and would like to use $10,000+ of our funding towards upgrading it. We have already invested $2000+ into our current website, but customers have told us personally it isn't as easy to navigate through as we would've originally liked. Not only that but building a custom gift box or purchasing something in general doesn't run as smoothly as we would've hoped. This is a very costly part of our campaign but we feel is the most crucial as a lot of people are shopping online nowadays we believe this will be where most our revenue eventually comes from. We need to have our website accessible to all people with or without disabilities.

- The team at MWL would like $5,000 to put towards a new product development and inventory. We would love the chance to stock more social enterprises and locally owned products! We believe by supporting these businesses we support the ones who need it most, and by having a wide variety of products the creations of our gift boxes will become unlimited! We also believe that by stocking more of our own products we will save enormous amounts of money by creating and selling our own instead of paying high retail price for others. Currently all stock is on consignment and this has been a wonderful way to start and whilst we appreciate the generosity from our suppliers we would love the opportunity to be able to buy stock in bulk and directly - which in turn saves a lot of time spent on admin. In the near future on a 2 year road map, we will be employing people to make our own brand kits & bath and body care. Evolution and sustainability made by people with disabilities.

- Finally we need $5000 for a Business Growth HUB. We would love to open a Growth HUB for the local community and anybody wanting to know how to start up or how to grow a small business! This growth HUB will be targeted for anybody that feels they need the assistance (disabled or not) and will also have its very own section in our store dedicated to it where people can come in and learn of new business schemes and how to go about opening something similar to what we have! We have a charity arm called the Chris Love Foundation which 5% of our yearly profits go into. This foundation will have its own independant trustees and will give micro loans to people who have come through our Growth HUB who have a solid business plan to start their own. Giving them that head start. After we proved the concept we will apply to external funds to continue to grow this section of work. We are also connected to Manaaki to furthermore help expand this.

 

Pledge little or Pledge lots! 

Every little bit goes a long long way and to reward our pledgers we have many small gifts such as custom mugs, tote bags, t shirts and hats! Bigger rewards such as a Cupcake Making Class with VanillaChic and a Custom Giftbox Experince + Behind The Scenes! A very special reward will be given away to a person who pledges a generous $5K so pledge now!

- The rewards will get better with the amount of compassion - so help us! So we can further help others :)

 

We appreciate all and every contribution to our funding campaign! And we at Moments With Love want to continue to give back in every way we possibly can, for more information on us or to order your very own giftbox visit our website below 

Moments With Love

or check us out on our IG, Facebook, YouTube and Tiktok pages

Facebook - Moments With Love NZ

Instagram - Moments With Love NZ

YouTube - Moments With Love NZ

TikTok - Moments With Love NZ

Feel free to stop by at our store in Orewa


1 Alice Ave,Shop 2 Hillary House (old illuminati tattoo studio) 

Open 10AM - 3PM Tues Wed Fri Sat and late night 10AM - 6PM Thursday

Love from everybody at the MWL team

 

 

Our Partners & Businesses that support MWL

 

Comments

Updates 1

Update & Thank You!

22/06/2022 at 10:04 AM

Just a quick update & thank you to all the businesses and individuals who have already pledged! This video will also be played on our holographic blades in our store in Orewa. Huge love and aroha to you all!

    Pledgers 52

    Anonymous pledger
    13/06/2022 at 9:52am

    "Love u guys"

    Anonymous pledger
    11/06/2022 at 1:22pm

    "Good luck Rachel & Molly with your fundraising! "

    Gene Marr
    11/06/2022 at 1:22pm

    "Congrats on the new premise girls. Looks great 😊❤️"

    Marie
    11/06/2022 at 9:29am
    Wai Thant-Cyn
    10/06/2022 at 9:39am

    "Good luck ladies!"

    Frankie Bee
    09/06/2022 at 10:36pm

    "Love x"

    Roberta Francis
    09/06/2022 at 10:34pm

    "You got this xx"

    Moana Ellis
    09/06/2022 at 9:47pm

    "So my pride and admiration for both of you - love you both "

    Anonymous pledger
    09/06/2022 at 12:07am
    Maddi
    08/06/2022 at 10:29pm

    "good luck! sorry it’s not much x"

    Sarah Travaglia
    08/06/2022 at 4:12pm

    "Good on you! Best of luck"

    Anonymous pledger
    08/06/2022 at 2:53pm

    "Rachel and Molly, best of luck. From All is for All."

    Tamara Bonfante
    08/06/2022 at 7:13am

    "What you do is so amazing and we make our pledge with absolute pleasure."

    Alina Transom
    07/06/2022 at 10:47pm

    "Love you guys ❤️ Love Alina "

    Yaela Raber
    07/06/2022 at 9:59pm

    "🔥🔥🔥"

    Kim
    07/06/2022 at 5:08pm

    "I saw you guys on social media and then on the manawanui livestream. I’m an if user and work for Manawanui . What your doing is great in so many ways . "

    Kylee Black
    07/06/2022 at 5:03pm

    "Go team! Cheering you on in hitting your goals! Will celebrate the win with you when you get the full amount! Xx "

    R McGann
    07/06/2022 at 10:35am
    Anonymous pledger
    24/05/2022 at 8:58am
    Anonymous pledger
    24/05/2022 at 8:49am
    Anonymous pledger
    24/05/2022 at 8:14am

    "I wish you all the best."

    Anonymous pledger
    23/05/2022 at 6:39pm

    Followers 3

    Followers of Moments With Growth & Development

    Moments With Growth & Development

    Project 2022-03-10 15:18:05 +1300

    Moments With Growth & Development is a 30 day campaign made to fund the accessibility and growth of our already established gift box company Moments With Love. We run a successful disability owned business that creates & curates gift boxes that contain disability owned and social enterprise products. Not only that, our boxes come with cherishable memories, moments to enjoy with the ones you love most! Very recently we have been put in a tough situation, Easter Sunday we were given 21 days to find a new store. We are currently a small team of three (+ volunteers) with a lot of work on our hands. We would be most appreciative of any  help we could get with the funding of this relocation and would love the oppurtunity to expand! By supporting our campagin - we would be able to employ people with and without disabilities and give them an oppurtunity. We believe the disabled community deserves much more! We want to continue this work, we feel we are just warming up... Can you help us reach $35K in 30 days?

    On the 3rd December 2021 with the help of family & friends, we were able to open a pop up store in Silverdale. This was a risk as we had no idea how it might play out + covid, but within 9 weeks of hard work we were able to give back $10,000 to the disability community! Our goal is to continue to do this on a bigger scale and is the main reason for our campaign!

     

    About our project & What the funding will go towards 


    - At least $10,000 of this funding will help Moments With Love make their new store accessible including their toilet, reception counter and also fund their temperature control. As of recently on Easter Sunday we were given 21 days notice to vacate our old premises. It was always our plan to move to a more accessible location, but due to this our circumstances have become urgent. We have already found a new shop in Orewa which is perfect for us! It only needs a few more accessible features which is what our funding will help go towards. The main feature that is not currently accessible is our toilet. We need to renovate and adjust some of the walls behind the store to make this toilet accessible for ourselves and customers with disabilities. Our new workspace would provide accessiblity for parking and accessible entry spaces. With the old workspace also being uninsurable it meant we could not sub lease our space to people who would make good use of it - which is something we would love to do. Many of our partners already run workshops and tutorials (cupcake making, mandella art classes, knitting circles) to name a few. We would love to be able to host these in our space while we are not using it. We feel this would promote community connection as well as disability and diversity awareness. Helping us helps the community

    $2,000 to $5,000 we would like to dedicate to work experience opportunities that we hope will lead to the employment of disabled people. The employment of disabled people, people with mental health and people with other barriers to employment. To be able to help them work with a living wage and create support for those who need it. We have close links with YES disability and Project Employ and can easily make this a reality! We have always envisoned having a team of people similar to us help us in our store and we believe by giving them the opportunity it will boost self esteem in the community as a whole. We would love to give them the opportunity! And if they would like the option to learn about how to start a small business themselves - we would like to help them achieve that. Already we have the Chris Love Foundation which is set up and ready to distribute micro loans & mentorship to those who need it & will be independently looked over by the team.

    - To save the laugh and fuss we would kindly like to redirect you to our social media pages (@momentswithlovenz) as our current website isn't all that jazz. We've spent time and money in upgrading our website but it is not up to the standard we need at all! Many people have come to us confused and skeptic and we at MWL want to fix this urgently. We desperately need a website upgrade and would like to use $10,000+ of our funding towards upgrading it. We have already invested $2000+ into our current website, but customers have told us personally it isn't as easy to navigate through as we would've originally liked. Not only that but building a custom gift box or purchasing something in general doesn't run as smoothly as we would've hoped. This is a very costly part of our campaign but we feel is the most crucial as a lot of people are shopping online nowadays we believe this will be where most our revenue eventually comes from. We need to have our website accessible to all people with or without disabilities.

    - The team at MWL would like $5,000 to put towards a new product development and inventory. We would love the chance to stock more social enterprises and locally owned products! We believe by supporting these businesses we support the ones who need it most, and by having a wide variety of products the creations of our gift boxes will become unlimited! We also believe that by stocking more of our own products we will save enormous amounts of money by creating and selling our own instead of paying high retail price for others. Currently all stock is on consignment and this has been a wonderful way to start and whilst we appreciate the generosity from our suppliers we would love the opportunity to be able to buy stock in bulk and directly - which in turn saves a lot of time spent on admin. In the near future on a 2 year road map, we will be employing people to make our own brand kits & bath and body care. Evolution and sustainability made by people with disabilities.

    - Finally we need $5000 for a Business Growth HUB. We would love to open a Growth HUB for the local community and anybody wanting to know how to start up or how to grow a small business! This growth HUB will be targeted for anybody that feels they need the assistance (disabled or not) and will also have its very own section in our store dedicated to it where people can come in and learn of new business schemes and how to go about opening something similar to what we have! We have a charity arm called the Chris Love Foundation which 5% of our yearly profits go into. This foundation will have its own independant trustees and will give micro loans to people who have come through our Growth HUB who have a solid business plan to start their own. Giving them that head start. After we proved the concept we will apply to external funds to continue to grow this section of work. We are also connected to Manaaki to furthermore help expand this.

     

    Pledge little or Pledge lots! 

    Every little bit goes a long long way and to reward our pledgers we have many small gifts such as custom mugs, tote bags, t shirts and hats! Bigger rewards such as a Cupcake Making Class with VanillaChic and a Custom Giftbox Experince + Behind The Scenes! A very special reward will be given away to a person who pledges a generous $5K so pledge now!

    - The rewards will get better with the amount of compassion - so help us! So we can further help others :)

     

    We appreciate all and every contribution to our funding campaign! And we at Moments With Love want to continue to give back in every way we possibly can, for more information on us or to order your very own giftbox visit our website below 

    Moments With Love

    or check us out on our IG, Facebook, YouTube and Tiktok pages

    Facebook - Moments With Love NZ

    Instagram - Moments With Love NZ

    YouTube - Moments With Love NZ

    TikTok - Moments With Love NZ

    Feel free to stop by at our store in Orewa


    1 Alice Ave,Shop 2 Hillary House (old illuminati tattoo studio) 

    Open 10AM - 3PM Tues Wed Fri Sat and late night 10AM - 6PM Thursday

    Love from everybody at the MWL team

     

     

    Our Partners & Businesses that support MWL

     

    Comments

    Update & Thank You!

    22/06/2022 at 10:04 AM

    Just a quick update & thank you to all the businesses and individuals who have already pledged! This video will also be played on our holographic blades in our store in Orewa. Huge love and aroha to you all!

      Anonymous pledger
      13/06/2022 at 9:52am

      "Love u guys"

      Anonymous pledger
      11/06/2022 at 1:22pm

      "Good luck Rachel & Molly with your fundraising! "

      Gene Marr
      11/06/2022 at 1:22pm

      "Congrats on the new premise girls. Looks great 😊❤️"

      Marie
      11/06/2022 at 9:29am
      Wai Thant-Cyn
      10/06/2022 at 9:39am

      "Good luck ladies!"

      Frankie Bee
      09/06/2022 at 10:36pm

      "Love x"

      Roberta Francis
      09/06/2022 at 10:34pm

      "You got this xx"

      Moana Ellis
      09/06/2022 at 9:47pm

      "So my pride and admiration for both of you - love you both "

      Anonymous pledger
      09/06/2022 at 12:07am
      Maddi
      08/06/2022 at 10:29pm

      "good luck! sorry it’s not much x"

      Sarah Travaglia
      08/06/2022 at 4:12pm

      "Good on you! Best of luck"

      Anonymous pledger
      08/06/2022 at 2:53pm

      "Rachel and Molly, best of luck. From All is for All."

      Tamara Bonfante
      08/06/2022 at 7:13am

      "What you do is so amazing and we make our pledge with absolute pleasure."

      Alina Transom
      07/06/2022 at 10:47pm

      "Love you guys ❤️ Love Alina "

      Yaela Raber
      07/06/2022 at 9:59pm

      "🔥🔥🔥"

      Kim
      07/06/2022 at 5:08pm

      "I saw you guys on social media and then on the manawanui livestream. I’m an if user and work for Manawanui . What your doing is great in so many ways . "

      Kylee Black
      07/06/2022 at 5:03pm

      "Go team! Cheering you on in hitting your goals! Will celebrate the win with you when you get the full amount! Xx "

      R McGann
      07/06/2022 at 10:35am
      Anonymous pledger
      24/05/2022 at 8:58am
      Anonymous pledger
      24/05/2022 at 8:49am
      Anonymous pledger
      24/05/2022 at 8:14am

      "I wish you all the best."

      Anonymous pledger
      23/05/2022 at 6:39pm

      Followers of Moments With Growth & Development

      This campaign was unsuccessful and finished on 08/07/2022 at 4:00 PM.
      1 On 1 Mentoring Coaching Session *For Disability Community Members ONLY *
      MWL Personal Thank You + Draw Entry
      MWL Personal Thank You + MWL Discount
      MWL Merch + Thank You + Draw Entry
      MWL Ultimate Merch Package + Window Dedication + Draw Entry
      VanillaChic Cupcake Making Class + MWL Merch + Draw Entry
      A MWL Custom Giftbox Experience + Behind The Scenes Package + Draw Entry
      Ultimate Dinner Date With MWL CEO