Monique and Finn are selling handmade, locally influenced soaps for their Young Enterprise Scheme company. If you are interested and would like to support our young entrepreneurs, you can contact them directly here.


Finn and I embarked on a soap-making journey this year. We aimed to have at least one local or locally influenced ingredient in each soap and have developed our Te Manahuna range (Mackenzie Basin). 

Through YES, we have learned some very valuable business lessons and have made some great progress. 

Thank you to everyone who has supported our business, given us advice, and of course, bought some soap! 


We still have soaps available for sale, so do not hesitate to get in touch before we sell out for the year and unfortunately, we have to close our doors as I am off to uni next year. I am sure Finn will have an amazing business next year, so keep an eye out! 


Gold Tiki Ventures 

CEO - Monique van der Westhuizen 

CFO - Finn McKinley


EMAIL - [email protected] 

INSTAGRAM - @gold_tiki_nz