The Like Me CIC


Experience and expertise to empower women


Expert guidance is one thing, but nothing replaces personal experience when to comes to building trust and giving inspiration to other people facing the same issues you once faced. Jasmine Mbye was at a loss as to what to do when she faced


returning to work after being made redundant and then having a baby. She attended an event organised by Luton Borough Council


Jasmine Mbye Founder The Like Me CIC


called Women Like Me in 2018 and was so impressed by its success that she determined to run the event the following year. T at was the beginning of T e Like Me CIC, a not-for-profi t personal development and employability organisation that organises courses and events that aim to empower and inspire women and girls. T e Community Interest Company is particularly aimed at those


who are vulnerable and want to develop the confi dence and courage to transform their lives.


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Jasmine said: “Our focus is what we call the Double


P Approach – professional expertise but backed up with personal experience. So, take my situation, for instance. I was working in training and coaching when I was made redundant and then I had my daughter and took time off with her until she was around six months old and I decided I needed to get back into work. “I was lost as to what I could do, and what I


wanted to do, and the Women Like Me event inspired me. T e fi rst one was organised by Luton Borough Council but they said that they didn’t want to carry on organising it, they wanted someone to step in to take over the running of it, and suddenly I knew what I had to do. “For the fi rst time ever I was unemployed, so I


was visiting the Job Centre, and that’s how I found out about the New Enterprise Allowance (NEA), and eventually we were granted funding from Near Neighbours that helped to make things happen. So, when I organise events to help people develop


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