About
I couldn't find my village. So I built it.
I moved to London six years ago. I built a life here, a career here, a home here. And when I became a mother, I looked around and realised I had done all of that without building the one thing I needed most.
A village.
My family were 200 miles away. My friends were in a completely different season of life. And the city I had chosen, one of the biggest, loudest, most connected cities in the world, suddenly felt very quiet.
I looked for spaces where I could meet other mums. I reached out for connection and heard nothing back. And for the first several months of my daughter's life, I navigated one of the most significant transitions a woman can go through almost entirely alone.
What made it harder was that when I did find the confidence to go out, what was available did not feel built for me. Cold church halls. Baby sensory classes designed entirely around the baby, with nothing for the mum sitting behind them, exhausted and quietly wondering who she was now.
Nobody was asking: how are you? Not the baby. You.
So I stopped waiting for someone else to build that space and I built it myself.
What we are
What Mère + Me is.
Mère + Me is a community for mothers in London, built around a simple belief: that becoming a mother is one of the most significant transformations of a woman's life, and she should not have to go through it alone, unsupported, or in a grubby church hall.
We run events across London: walks, brunches, reformer Pilates, workshops and coffee mornings. Every event is baby-friendly, genuinely warm, and designed for the mum, not just the baby she brought with her.
We also run The Mère Collective, a coaching community and business network for mum founders who are building something whilst raising someone.
Both pillars exist because of the same conviction: no mum should lose herself in motherhood. And no mum founder should lose her ambition to it.
The vision
What we are building.
Over 400 mums have found their village through Mère + Me. We have partnered with BabyBjörn, GAIL's Bakery, and Elizabeth Marsh. We are developing a six-week postpartum programme launching in North London this autumn. And we are just getting started.
In five years, Mère + Me will be the go-to space for mothers, from postpartum to founder. A brand that millions of mums find in their most isolating moments and think: this was built for me.
We want brands to seek us out because they understand the value of this community. We want mums across the country to find each other through us. We want the village to keep growing.
Because no mum should ever feel the way I felt in those first months. Not if we can help it.
Shakila, founder of Mère + Me
From the community
400+ mums in the community
Events across London every week
Partners include BabyBjörn and GAIL's Bakery
Six-week programme launching autumn 2026
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