Vaults and Garden

01/05/2026

What a gorgeous bunch of local souls sharing their hearts and voices with a wonderful A Capella performance at 7am this morning, thank you for making May morning as magical as it could possibly be in our new home ♥️

20/09/2025

A boost from our donation box 💚

Thanks to you, our new tap-to-donate box at the counter has already raised £1,842.

Together with our CrowdJustice appeal, now £16,216 from 357 supporters, your generosity is keeping us in the fight.

We’re less than two months from the High Court hearing that will decide the café’s future. With legal costs at £200,000, every bit of support helps us carry on.

How you can help today
• Tap to give when you visit the café (look for the CrowdJustice box by the till).
• Donate online: 👉 https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-the-vaults-and-garden-cafe/
• Share this post with friends on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or X.

Thank you for standing with us.
— Vaults & Garden Team

We seek help to save a favourite Oxford destination for students, locals and tourists. We need at least £10,000 for our campaign to go live for the full amount of £100,000 we need. Please give now.

01/09/2025

We've raised £13k+ so far!

Thanks to this community, 300+ supporters have donated £13,924 to our CrowdJustice campaign, and our petition has passed 15,700 signatures. We’re very grateful.

⏳ Two months to go until the High Court hearing. Legal costs are expected to be £100,000+ — and we need urgent support to keep fighting.

💳 New in-café option: there’s a donation card machine on our counter — choose an amount and tap to give.

❗️Important: Donations made on Change.org support the petition platform, not the café.
If you can help the café directly, please donate here:

👉 CrowdJustice (official appeal):
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-the-vaults-and-garden-cafe/

Average donation so far is £42, but any amount helps.
If just 10% of petition supporters gave £10, we’d more than double what’s in our solicitors’ client account.

Please share this post with friends on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and X — every share brings us closer.
Thank you for standing with us. 💛

— Team Vaults & Garden

We seek help to save a favourite Oxford destination for students, locals and tourists. We need at least £10,000 for our campaign to go live for the full amount of £100,000 we need. Please give now.

10/08/2025

💳 Tap to Back Our Legal Costs Campaign

The fight to save the Vaults & Garden Café from eviction just got easier to support.

We are very grateful to the 296 donors who have given a total £12,705 to date but we are a long way short of our target of £100,000 before trial in the High Court in October.

We’ve now installed a CrowdJustice donation card machine right on our café counter — making it quick and simple to give when you visit. Just choose your amount, tap your card, and you’re done.

📍 Where to find it:
At the end of the tray counter, next to our usual payment machine.

If you haven’t donated yet — or want to give again — please try it next time you’re in. Every tap helps us defend the café we’ve built together over the last 20 years.

Please share this post with friends and fellow café lovers so they know there’s now another way to help when they pop in.

Prefer to donate online?
👇Click the link below

Thank you for your continued support,
Team Vaults

We seek help to save a favourite Oxford destination for students, locals and tourists. We need at least £10,000 for our campaign to go live for the full amount of £100,000 we need. Please give now.

20/07/2025

🚨 The Café Needs Your Help Now 🚨

We’ve raised £11,900 from 259 amazing supporters — but we still need your help to reach our £100,000 goal.

Over 15,680 people have signed our petition. If each of you gave just £10, we’d hit our target and secure the Vaults & Garden’s future.

🌱 Every donation, big or small, goes directly to our legal defence fund via our solicitor’s client account.
💛 Any excess goes to the Access to Justice charity.

📍 Please donate now:
👉 https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-the-vaults-and-garden-cafe/

🔁 And please help us spread the word:
✅ Share this post
✅ Tag friends
✅ Post on Instagram, WhatsApp, X

Let’s keep this movement alive.
Thank you for standing with us.
– The Vaults & Garden Team 🌿

We seek help to save a favourite Oxford destination for students, locals and tourists. We need at least £10,000 for our campaign to go live for the full amount of £100,000 we need. Please give now.

15/07/2025

Why we need £100,000

A message from Will Pouget, cafe founder….

More than two years has passed since I and the cafe’s operating company were given three months’ notice as trespassers to quit the Old Congregation House by our landlord, the Parochial Church Council led by the vicar, the Revd Will Lamb.
The public response against the eviction proceedings which have followed has been demonstrated by the 15,660 supporters of the cafe who have signed the Save the Vaults petition on change.org.

At the time, I had no idea of the level of legal costs that would be needed to defend our claim that we had a statutory tenancy resulting from our 20 years of occupation and substantial investment in the premises.

As the legal process has unfolded, our costs have escalated dramatically and we have had the benefit of the advice of a leading firm of solicitors together with a barrister specialised in both property and ecclesiastical law. They have extended credit to us in the belief that we will win our case eventually but I had no idea when we began how long this might take.

We are now faced with a trial in the High Court in London and our legal costs are already in excess of £100,000 with the need for at least another £30,000 before trial begins at the end of October.

The Vaults & Garden has been a successful and profitable small business but is not able to afford the level of costs which have been incurred to date and which are needed to continue our fight.

Our opponent is a wealthy charity with assets of more than £2 million and income of more than £700,000 a year. We are a very small business by comparison and I have tried to settle this dispute without success despite my best efforts to seek mediation.

We need urgent financial help now if we are to survive this legal battle and continue to keep the Vaults & Garden open for the benefit of all of you who love us and the future of our devoted staff.

Please pass my message to all your friends and share on social media. Thank you for your support.

Will Pouget

We seek help to save a favourite Oxford destination for students, locals and tourists. We need at least £10,000 for our campaign to go live for the full amount of £100,000 we need. Please give now.

12/07/2025

Why we need £100,000

A message from Will Pouget, cafe founder….

More than two years has passed since I and the cafe’s operating company were given three months’ notice as trespassers to quit the Old Congregation House by our landlord, the Parochial Church Council led by the vicar, the Revd Will Lamb.

The public response against the eviction proceedings which have followed has been demonstrated by the 15,660 supporters of the cafe who have signed the Save the Vaults petition on change.org.

At the time, I had no idea of the level of legal costs that would be needed to defend our claim that we had a statutory tenancy resulting from our 20 years of occupation and substantial investment in the premises.

As the legal process has unfolded, our costs have escalated dramatically and we have had the benefit of the advice of a leading firm of solicitors together with a barrister specialised in both property and ecclesiastical law. They have extended credit to us in the belief that we will win our case eventually but I had no idea when we began how long this might take.

We are now faced with a trial in the High Court in London and our legal costs are already in excess of £100,000 with the need for at least another £30,000 before trial begins at the end of October.

The Vaults & Garden has been a successful and profitable small business but is not able to afford the level of costs which have been incurred to date and which are needed to continue our fight.

Our opponent is a wealthy charity with assets of more than £2 million and income of more than £700,000 a year. We are a very small business by comparison and I have tried to settle this dispute without success despite my best efforts to seek mediation.

We need urgent financial help now if we are to survive this legal battle and continue to keep the Vaults & Garden open for the benefit of all of you who love us and the future of our devoted staff.

Please pass my message to all your friends and share on social media. Thank you for your support.

Will Pouget

We seek help to save a favourite Oxford destination for students, locals and tourists. We need at least £10,000 for our campaign to go live for the full amount of £100,000 we need. Please give now.

23/06/2025

We’re almost there — £9,826 raised, just £174 to go to hit our first target of £10,000!

For over 20 years, Vaults & Garden has been a much-loved part of Oxford — a home for students, locals, tourists, and anyone seeking good food and community. But now, we urgently need your help to defend our future.

💼 After three years of legal battle and rising costs, we’re heading to the High Court this October to defend our right to stay. Legal costs are expected to reach £150,000 and we’re raising funds to continue the fight.

❤️ Over 15,500 people have signed our petition — now we need your help to keep going.

✅ Here’s how you can help:
🟢 Pledge anything from £10: Your card is only charged if we reach the £10,000 minimum
📢 Share this campaign with your friends on Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and X
💬 Ask 2 friends to share the link with 5–10 others

🔗 https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-the-vaults-and-garden-cafe/pledge/?amount=50.00

Let’s reach that first £10,000 milestone together — 12 days left and every action counts.

🙏 Thank you to everyone who has backed us so far — let’s keep pushing!

22/06/2025

90% Raised – Thanks to You!

After Thursday’s Oxford Mail article, support for our legal fundraiser has surged — we’ve now reached £9,213 from 162 amazing supporters! 💚 That’s 92% of our initial £10,000 goal in just two weeks.

But we still have a long road ahead: our legal costs are expected to reach £150,000 before the High Court trial this October.

🟢 If you’ve signed the petition — thank you! But please note: petition donations on Change.org go to the platform, not the café.

🎯 To help the café directly, please donate via our official CrowdJustice page:

👉 https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-the-vaults-and-garden-cafe

Average donations are £55 — but every £5, £10 or £20 helps.
And if you’ve already donated, please share the link far and wide — on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and X.

From all of us at Vaults & Garden — thank you for standing with us. 🙏

We seek help to save a favourite Oxford destination for students, locals and tourists. We need at least £10,000 for our campaign to go live for the full amount of £100,000 we need. Please give now.