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Moments from our recent event: real women, honest conversations, and the kind of room we’re building more of.
Her Best Steps · A London CIC for women 18–25
Relationships, money, work, identity, loneliness, and the weight of working it all out at once. Usually with no map, and no one to ask. Her Best Steps is the support, guidance and community a lot of us wish we'd had earlier.
Honest conversations. Human support. Real guidance.
What I wish I knew.
Who I hoped I had.
The older sister, the honest conversation, the person who'd already worked it out. That's the space we're building.
So you end up stitching it together yourself, while already stretched. Her Best Steps brings it into one place.
Her Best Steps is a London-based social impact organisation (a Community Interest Company) for women aged 18 to 25. We bring emotional wellbeing, relationships, mentorship, community and career opportunities into one place, so it feels more accessible and human.
We're here for the in-between years nobody really warns you about, when you're working out relationships, money and who you are, often all at the same time.
Not performative. Not preachy. Not clinical. Just honest support for the stage of life where things can get overwhelming and hard to navigate.
Nobody prepares you for this stage of life. You shouldn't have to work it out alone.
Four foundations shape how this stage of life actually feels. When one is shaky, it usually shows up in all the others, so we work across all four rather than one at a time.
Healthy connection, boundaries, and spotting unhealthy or controlling dynamics early.
Your relationship with yourself: confidence, identity, and self-trust.
The home you came from, and the patterns you carry from it.
Independence with money and work, because stability creates real choice.
Small, human-led circles where women can talk honestly and be heard, guided by women who understand this stage of life. Because sometimes what changes everything is access to someone who gets it.
Events where women working in business, media, law, beauty, tech and the creative industries share what they do and how they got there. Real people, real access.
Open, honest sessions on the things women are already talking about privately. Finally said out loud, in a room that feels safe.
Most young women are never taught what a healthy relationship looks like, or how to spot the early signs that one isn't. We help women recognise unhealthy and controlling patterns early, understand boundaries and coercion, and know where to turn before things escalate.
Support for women rebuilding confidence, identity and direction after an unhealthy relationship or a hard start. Where specialist help is needed, we connect women to it rather than working beyond what keeps them safe.
You are not a product of your environment. Where you started doesn't have to be where you're going. This is where you write a new story.
The thread running through all of it: you can't become what you've never had the chance to see.
Guidance matters. Access changes circumstances.
We want women to leave feeling less alone and more equipped. We also want something they can hold: a placement, an introduction, a mentor, a real next step. We build relationships with employers and organisations to open doors into work experience and entry-level opportunities.
What changes
Moments from our recent event: real women, honest conversations, and the kind of room we’re building more of.
Jasmin Barrett, FounderHer Best Steps began with something its founder, Jasmin Barrett, lived herself.
Her own path through this stage of life was anything but smooth, shaped by a home that came apart and a relationship she later had to find her way out of. She entered adulthood without a map, navigating relationships, money, identity, and self-worth in real time, often wishing someone had walked it before her.
She didn't leave those experiences where they were. She turned them into understanding, including training as a Croydon Domestic Abuse Ambassador, and developing a deeper awareness of how unhealthy dynamics, environment, emotional wellbeing, and access quietly shape the choices young women make.
What stayed with her most was watching younger women continue to hit the same walls, often facing the same gaps in support, guidance, and opportunity.
Her Best Steps is what she wishes had existed earlier: relatable, informed, emotionally honest, and human rather than out of reach.
Because when young women genuinely trust the spaces created for them, they reach out sooner. That trust is what Her Best Steps exists to build.