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— give & serve
Haven has no investors, no ads and nothing to sell you. It runs on small recurring gifts and volunteered hours — and we’ll show you exactly where both go.
the median monthly gift — most of our funding
people giving something each month
of practices stay free, funded or not
spent on advertising, ever
— the bowl, passed
— why ask at all
Every calm app that took investment eventually had to find something to extract — your attention, your data, or your subscription anxiety. We would rather ask you directly and stay small.
A gift here doesn’t unlock anything. There is no members-only tier, no premium library, no badge. It simply pays four people to keep writing and recording, and keeps the whole thing free for the person opening it at 3am who has nothing to give.
If money is tight, give nothing. Genuinely. Serve instead, or just use it.
— ways to give
Sustain
/ month
Covers hosting for roughly 40 readers
Our quarterly letter, if you want it
Cancel in one click, no questions
most chosen
Support
/ month
Funds one new practice recording a year
Early access to the ambient library
Your name in the annual thank-you, if you like
Sponsor
/ month
Keeps Haven free for ~250 people a month
A short call with the studio each year
Full access to our books, line by line
Prefer to give once? Make a single gift instead.
— where it goes
Writing & practice production
58%
The four salaries
24%
Hosting, audio storage & email
11%
Accessibility & translation
5%
Payment processing
2%
— serve
Four ways to help that cost nothing but attention. All of them are genuinely used.
01
Read drafts
Tell us when a reflection rings false. Roughly one short piece a fortnight, no deadline pressure.
2 hrs / month
02
Translate
We’re slowly moving into Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi. Fluency matters more than experience.
flexible
03
Record field sound
Rain, rooms, trains, kitchens. If you have a recorder and somewhere quiet, we’d like to hear it.
as you like
04
Sit with the inbox
People write to us in hard moments. Answering kindly and knowing when to point to real help.
4 hrs / month
— transparency
We publish a full income and spending report every January — every gift received, every pound spent, every mistake we made with it. It is not a marketing document; it’s a spreadsheet with sentences around it.
Haven takes no money from advertisers, wellness brands, insurers or employers. We have turned down four sponsorship offers and we listed them all in the last report, including the amounts.
If something in here doesn’t add up, write to us and we’ll correct it publicly.
— thank you
For someone who needs it at three in the morning and has nothing to give. That’s the whole pitch.
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