TaskHer bags £650K to put more women into UK homes and into the trades workforce — TFN

• TaskHer, the platform connecting homeowners with verified tradeswomen, has raised £650,000 from Trust for London, Resolution Ventures, Ufi Ventures, and Second Century Ventures.
• Women make up under 3% of the UK’s skilled trades workforce — TaskHer’s entire thesis is that the sector’s talent shortage cannot be solved by recruiting from the same 97% that already exists.
• The round will fund B2B expansion into housing associations, lettings agencies, and women’s refuges, building on a partnership with Refuge, the UK’s largest domestic abuse charity.

A repair visit to a home riddled with distrust from an abusive partner is not routine work. TaskHer, the platform that books verified tradeswomen for UK homeowners, has spent the past year sending its network into exactly those situations, supplying trauma-informed maintenance to domestic abuse safe houses run by Refuge, the UK’s largest domestic abuse charity. It has now raised £650,000 to do more of it.

The round was co-led by Trust for London, Resolution Ventures, Ufi Ventures and Second Century Ventures, as part of the REACH UK programme, with additional participation from angel investors via Daring Capital. 

“This seed round is a vote of confidence in our mission to normalise women in the trades and provide a more inclusive experience for homeowners, strategic partners, and tradeswomen alike,” says Anna Moynihan, founder of TaskHer.

Why now: a £56 billion market with almost no women in it

Skilled trades remain one of the United Kingdom’s most male-dominated industries.

TaskHer puts the share of women in the sector at under 3% in a UK trade services market estimated at £56 billion. That gap is the company’s entire thesis: the shortage of tradespeople the industry keeps warning about will not be solved by recruiting from the same 97% of the workforce that already exists.

The TaskHer platform lets homeowners book and pay verified tradeswomen online, with pricing set upfront rather than negotiated in person, and has now connected over 4,000 customers with tradeswomen across London.

From a kitchen renovation to a Refuge partnership

Anna Moynihan co-founded TaskHer in 2022 with her husband, Paul Moynihan, after the two hired tradesmen for a kitchen renovation who directed every question to Paul and ignored Anna throughout. The platform lists only women, arguing that visibility and demand are what keep tradeswomen locked out of the sector.

That mission extended earlier this year into the Refuge partnership, providing trauma-informed maintenance in domestic abuse safe houses: work that turns an ordinary callout into something closer to trust-building for people rebuilding their lives.

TaskHer competes for attention, though not always for customers, with far larger UK trade directories. Checkatrade, now owned by Brookfield-backed HomeServe, generates over £55 million in annual revenue. Bark and MyBuilder run pay-per-lead models open to contractors of any gender.

None of the major platforms screen specifically for tradeswomen, which is the gap TaskHer is taking, competing for supply within a workforce that is, by its own numbers, vanishingly small.

The investors, the money, and what comes next

This is not TaskHer’s first raise. The company previously took in £200,000 in pre-seed funding in January 2023 from Bethnal Green Ventures, Resolution Foundation and Ufi Ventures, later growing that pre-seed total to £350,000 with angel participation, and ran a £300,000 Crowdcube campaign in December 2024 after reporting 79% revenue growth that year

The new £650,000 round will fund expansion into B2B partnerships with housing associations, lettings agencies, and women’s refuges, continued platform development, and growth of TaskHer’s tradeswomen network.

Luke Kavanagh of Trust for London says: “TaskHer really aligns with our mission to build a fairer London by opening up access to good, well-paid work for women who’ve been shut out for too long. We’re excited by the team’s vision and the real difference this platform can make.”

Louise Marston, director of ventures at Resolution Ventures, adds. “We’re really pleased to continue supporting TaskHer’s mission, creating better work opportunities for tradeswomen as well as building the future talent pipeline in the trades, and addressing the gender pay gap. This investment will mean that the platform is able to help many more people in the UK.”

Whether a platform this size can grow the actual supply of tradeswomen, rather than better-organising the small pool that already exists, is the harder question the sector will need to answer as more impact investors chase returns in UK trades.