# Paperboat Consulting

Paperboat Consulting is a women-led consultancy collective based in Frome, specialising in supporting organisations working at the intersection of peace building, youth engagement, gender equality and women's movement building. They work with movements, communities and institutions seeking transformative change grounded in feminist values.

The firm serves organisations navigating complex social change agendas, particularly those operating in fragile or contested spaces where conventional consulting approaches fall short. Their clients include NGOs, social movements, grassroots organisations and institutions committed to progressive social impact.

What distinguishes Paperboat is their explicitly feminist, politically informed methodology that moves beyond generic consulting templates. Rather than imposing external solutions, they adopt a collaborative and reflective approach that recognises power dynamics, contextual specificity and the lived realities of those driving change. This means their work acknowledges trauma, centres community wisdom and builds sustainable capacity rather than extractive engagements.

Their consultancy spans strategy development and organisational culture change, but with particular depth in feminist resourcing—helping organisations align their funding and resource allocation with their values. They bring trauma-informed practices to sensitive contexts and conduct gender-sensitive research and evaluation that generates insights meaningful to movements, not just funders.

Paperboat represents a departure from conventional business consulting: they're explicitly values-aligned practitioners who understand that meaningful social change requires different thinking, different approaches and different kinds of partnerships.