Posts by Downlights
232 days ago

Downlight Social Enterprise Needs Your Help Now!

Jennifer Del Bel from Downlights

🚨 We need your help.
This is more than a sale. It’s a lifeline 💛


Dear Downlights Community,

We’ve always believed in the power of light — not just in the candles we create, but in the lives we help shape through meaningful employment.

Since Covid, Downlights has faced ongoing challenges, and today we’re reaching out to you — our loyal supporters — with open hearts and an urgent request.

We need your help to keep our Social Enterprise alive.
Downlights exists to create inclusive employment opportunities for young adults with disabilities. But right now, we can’t do it alone.

Here’s how you can help:

🕯 BUY OUR CANDLES
– Every purchase fuels employment, purpose, and hope.
Click here to shop candles

💛 DONATE TO THE DOWNLIGHTS CHARITABLE TRUST
– Your support helps us continue our mission.
Click here to donate

📢 SHARE THIS MESSAGE
– Spread the word with your friends, family, and community.

This is more than a sale. It’s a lifeline.

Together, we can ensure Downlights remains a shining example of what’s possible when business is driven by purpose.

Act now – we can’t do this without you.

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💜 Thanks From The Downlights Crew

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More messages from your neighbours
5 days ago

Poll: Are our Kiwi summer holidays helping us recharge, or holding the economy back? ☀️🥝

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

There’s growing debate about whether New Zealand’s extended Christmas break (and the slowdown that comes with it) affects productivity.

Tracy Watkins has weighed in ... now it’s your turn. What’s your take? 🤔

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Are our Kiwi summer holidays helping us recharge, or holding the economy back? ☀️🥝
  • 71.7% We work hard, we deserve a break!
    71.7% Complete
  • 16.4% Hmm, maybe?
    16.4% Complete
  • 11.9% Yes!
    11.9% Complete
1008 votes
1 hour ago

Thank you all who helped this year

Aminiasi from Mount Wellington

"Wearing my heart out to my amazing neighbours -

THANK YOU for an incredible year! 🙏🏼
Your generosity in donating lawnmowers to restore and resell has enabled me to volunteer in prison every month, sharing hope and encouragement with the guys inside. There are lives being changed, testimonies being born, and yes, there are also lives not changed YET... but I won't give up! 😊 I'll keep turning up, month after month, year after year, because I know there is lives to be change.

If you still have lawnmowers you don't want or have upgraded, please keep donating! Every mower contributes to the ripple effect of changing a man’s soul, which can change a nation. 🌟 Wishing you all a wonderful festive season and a happy, healthy new year! 🙏🏼 #blessed #gratitude #prisonministry #changinglives"

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19 days ago

Some Choice News!

Kia pai from Sharing the Good Stuff

Many New Zealand gardens aren’t seeing as many monarch butterflies fluttering around their swan plants and flower beds these days — the hungry Asian paper wasp has been taking its toll.

Thanks to people like Alan Baldick, who’s made it his mission to protect the monarch, his neighbours still get to enjoy these beautiful butterflies in their own backyards.

Thinking about planting something to invite more butterflies, bees, and birds into your garden?

Thanks for your mahi, Alan! We hope this brings a smile!

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