Meet the Changemaking Founders of 2025!
Thank you for joining us for Sisterhood Summer’s Self-Built Pitch event! As you’ve been hearing the pitches, we encourage you to give feedback and connect with the changemakers if you’d like to offer them additional support and resources, be that mentoring, connecting them to a relevant person or opportunity, or offering any funding.
We’re gearing up for Sisterhood Summer 2026 and we would love for you to be involved! If you would like to join as a mentor, designer, changemaker, sponsor, or collaborator, please get in touch:
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Caitlin, Founder of Rewired
REWIRED is a trauma-informed rehabilitation tool to support young offenders through self guided reflection, emotional development, and goal setting. Using psychology and criminology based strategies, the journal empowers youth to take accountability, build resilience, and work toward reintegration into society — even in restricted or secure settings.
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Alexia, Founder of Motherly
Motherly is a media platform that provides girls with knowledge about their reproductive and feminine health ;zs be present in themselves because knowledge isn't just power- it's empowerment and women shouldn't see their bodies and needs as a barrier but as stepping stool to growth.
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Kamilla, Founder of Femme Floor
Femmefloor is an affordable women-only events space. By day, it is a co-working hub where people can work, socialise, and host events like exhibitions, talks and lectures for the local (female) community. By night, it functions as a bar/lounge where women can socialise in an environment free of discrimination and harassment.
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Shabiha, Founder of PCOYES
PCOYES is a personalised health app that helps women with PCOS track their symptoms, access culturally relevant nutrition and lifestyle guidance, learn from expert-led content, and connect with a supportive community. It empowers users to manage their condition holistically through science-backed, inclusive tools.
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Wonderful, Founder of InteGreat
InteGreat is hub designed to support immigrants when integrating into the UK by focusing on cultural and practical adaptation. We offers information about rights and cultural norms, AI-driven legal advice and pro bono lawyer connections, tailored English teaching, mentoring and counselling for potential work and educational opportunities. Our platform empowers immigrants to navigate their new environment and progress toward stability and sovereignty.
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Raquel, Founder of Locked In
P2D is an app that provides young people with the tools to advance towards their dream career paths. Through an abundance of information and interactive stages young people from lower economic backgrounds will be able to experience a multitude of career paths, pave an actionable plan to get their and ease the path into work experience and post 16 progression.
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Roismi, Founder of My Trauma Is Chronic, But I Am Iconic!!
THRIVE (Life After Care) is a bold, co-produced six-month programme designed with and for care-experienced young people aged 16 to 25, grounded in lived experience and collaboration. It combines weekly workshops, one-to-one mentoring and practical life skills to help young people navigate adulthood with confidence while still having the freedom to enjoy being young.
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Chidinma, Founder of Apprentaville
Apprentaville offers safe, comfortable and affordable housing solution for apprentices. We aim to overcome the barriers that apprentices may face, elimating the feeling of loneliness and hopelessness by providing their living needs central to their working locations, weekly workshops/events focused on finance, personal branding and workspace transitioning and more.
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Mariana, Founder of FeFe
We help women feel more alive. FeFe is an iron-fortified Nigerian hibiscus drink called Zobo. It contains all your daily iron in one can. Have a kiki with FeFe!
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Priscilla, Founder of Say Less
An AI assisted platform that transforms complex academic writing into clear, engaging formats designed for young people, students, and curious minds which is tailored to their preferred learning style.
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Hillary, Founder of Bus. Name
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Zahra, Founder of BrightWeb by Hifaz
BrightWeb creates a safe and secure online environment for young people by using advanced sotware to prevent predatory cybercrimes targeted at teens.
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Rebecca, Founder of Party Again
To make every celebration special while reducing waste, Party Again provides high-quality, reusable decoration kits. Our mission is to offer an affordable and accessible alternative to party supplies, helping people celebrate sustainably.
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Tosin, Founder of CTRL + Create
CTRL + Create is dedicated to fostering creativity and community among young people. Our spaces offer a supportive and inspiring place where they can explore a variety of creative fields, including photography, design, drama, and music. Our mission is to equip them with valuable skills and open their eyes to new career possibilities, while also giving them a place to connect and grow.
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Saanvi, Founder of Care Less
CareNest focuses on helping new mothers after pregnancy to book trusted home services like postnatal massage, cleaning, baby care, and healthy meal prep. These services would be provided by verified professionals, with an option to choose female providers for comfort and safety.
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Ghubeny, Founder of LexiLearn
LexiLearn is redefining accessible education for neurodivergent students in STEM. Our mission is to provide an AI-powered platform that doesn't just accommodate learners but deeply understands and supports their unique needs. We strive to create a calm, personalised space where students can confidently thrive in high-barrier fields like science and innovation.
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Lynna, Founder of Guidr
Guidr addresses social harassment affecting women and children in the UK, particularly those with special educational needs. It's an inclusive, interactive tracking app featuring a real time safety map, highlighting sensory sensitive areas and safe spots. The app includes ASL friendly images and audio support, and links to a stylish bangle or smartwatch, allowing parents to track their child to, during and from school with ease.
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Angel, Founder of Trade In
Trade In is an on-demand community-driven platform where teenagers can sell, buy and exchange clothes with an additional option of donating them to charity. My platform encourages young people to reduce the devastating impact of clothing watse by promoting the use of second hand clothing. As they say "One mans trash is another mans treasure".