Restless Women was born out of a shared frustration with the status quo of social impact. Having operated at the highest levels of both corporate boardrooms and frontline civil society, we kept seeing the same disconnect repeat itself.
Traditional philanthropy routinely relies on fragmented, short-term grants that exhaust frontline leaders with endless bureaucracy. Conversely, traditional corporate social responsibility heavily favours safe, surface-level box-ticking over genuine structural change.
We saw a critical gap. The frontline organisations doing the heaviest lifting, especially those tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), cannot survive on unpredictable, haphazard funding. They need insulation, resilience, and multi-year commitment. We built Restless Women to bridge these two worlds, transforming institutional capital and corporate influence into robust, long-term funding architecture.
We are here to move wealth past transactional charity and direct it toward true systemic justice.
We believe in shifting power, not just paper. By applying a rigorous, gender informed lens to capital deployment, we design funding frameworks that move resources directly to grassroots movements where it can drive the most immediate structural impact.
Our practice is rooted in real-world operational realities. We understand the acute safety, political, and systemic risks inherent to gender justice and VAWG work. We ensure our investors and partners navigate these complex socio-political landscapes safely, ethically, and effectively.
We reject performative gestures. True community resilience requires moving away from tokenistic corporate giving and embracing multi-year, predictable financial commitments. We structure legacies that actively dismantle structural inequalities from the inside out.
An expert in corporate alignment, strategic partnerships, and structural change, Henrietta brings over a decade of experience in family wealth management and institutional capital navigation. Having operated extensively within high-stakes corporate and financial environments, she understands exactly how wealth is held, deployed, and protected.
Henrietta specialises in guiding high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and business leaders through the cultural and operational shifts required to align commercial influence with authentic social impact. By combining her financial background with an uncompromising commitment to gender justice, she builds the strategic blueprints that allow corporate power to move past performative marketing and drive measurable, long-term community resilience.
Andrea is a senior social impact executive and management consultant with over two decades of experience scaling grassroots pilots into robust, multi-million-pound operations. Having operated as both an institutional grant-maker and an organisation builder, her approach is rooted strictly in what works in complex, high-stakes environments.
Throughout her career, Andrea has managed deployment budgets, structured complex cross-sector boards, and successfully scaled local pilots into multi-country international movements. A trusted advisor within the VAWG and broader civil society sectors, she specialises in translating operational grit into high-level funding strategy, helping family offices and foundations transform complex systemic challenges into self-sustaining vehicles for structural change.