A Singapore grantmaking foundation. We help individuals take control of their own destiny, rather than leave it to fate or the circumstances of birth.
Founder’s / Family Statement
In Greek myth, Clotho was the first of the three Fates — the spinner. From her distaff came the thread of every mortal life: its beginning, its texture, and the point at which it would be cut. Destiny was something issued to you.
Clotho Trust exists to move the spindle into human hands. Our grantmaking is directed at the places where birth still dictates outcome, so that a person's future is authored rather than inherited. We weave; we do not decree.
Through the Weavers of Change Foundation, we choose not to leave positive outcomes to fate alone. Instead, we seek to deliberately weave compassion, dignity, and opportunity into the lives of individuals and communities. Like skilled weavers, we understand that lasting fabric is created not through a single thread, but through the careful interlacing of many.
By empowering people with tools and skills, and by supporting organisations that strengthen entire ecosystems of change, we hope to contribute to a society that is healthier, more just, and more resilient—for this generation and those that follow.
Three pillars
We fund work at the intersection of nutrition, food science and longevity research — how what we eat shapes metabolic health, and how that science translates into active healthspan rather than mere lifespan. More years lived well, not simply more years counted.
We work to eradicate the sources and the systemic traps that hold people in bondage across Asia, supporting prevention, rescue and lasting reintegration.
We fund the full education path all the way to full university degrees for women in fields that uplift whole communities — medicine foremost among them — from first semester to graduation.
About us
Founder / Chief Executive Officer
Hunger gave me the iron will never to be poor again.
Self-made entrepreneur, Anthonia, describes what it was like growing up poor in Hong Kong.
“At six years old, I had to look after my 4 siblings and the household, whilst my parents tried to find work. I couldn’t sleep because I was so hungry all the time. Worse still, was seeing my mother crying out of guilt for not having enough money to put food on the table for us.
My father, a strict Confucianist, believed girls didn’t need an education and their only purpose was to get married and make baby boys! Despite this, I put myself and younger sister through secondary school, by working part time. Poverty taught me the value of money and financial security, and the only way to break the vicious cycle, was to ALWAYS be of value. I did this by working harder and smarter than anyone else. I controlled my fate.”
After four decades working in the various banking sectors across London, Paris, Zurich, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Leonardo and I co-founded our own independent wealth management firm to care for our clients and fully align our mutual interests, free from the conflicts pervasive in the industry.
I am passionate about education. There’s always something new to learn! In my free time I love reading tax and legal journals, participating in industry workshops and more importantly, helping my clients’ navigate and bridge the communication intricacies they may have with their tax/planning specialists.
Co-Founder / Chief Investment Officer
“I am NOT giving you a cent!” That was the response my father gave to my twelve-year-old self when I had asked him why I wasn’t getting pocket money like all my school mates.
“Money must be earned, not given” My father was a hard taskmaster, and he wanted to teach me a lesson. So he gave me access to a small brokerage account where I could not touch the capital, only the profits made. Within a year, I blew it all away, learning a critical lesson that I will never forget. This started my personal quest to learn everything I could about different investment strategies and their inherent risks.
My other obsession is in the research of anti-aging and longevity, particularly how nutrition can improve the “healthiness” of the last few decades, giving us more life in our years so that we can continue to be active into old age. All the wealth in the world is of little comfort if you do not have the health to enjoy it.
Chief Morale Officer
Unfailingly present at the door to greet every visitor. Paid in walks.
Chief Entertainment Officer
Keeps the board meetings on track and considerably shorter.
Charity portfolio management
“Our charity portfolio management is optimised for survivability and designed to last for the next 150+ years.”
A foundation that intends to give for a century and a half cannot invest like one that reports quarterly. Capital preservation comes before return; the thread must not be cut by a single bad year … or a bad decade.
If you would like to find out how this multi-generational survivability is engineered:
www.weaversofchange.comInquiries & governance
We keep this deliberately simple. Tell us who you are and what you are trying to change. The trustees read every submission.