VIBE YOUTH CIC - A SPECIALIST YOUTH ORGANISATION IN SWANSEA
VIBE Youth CIC was founded in 2017 by social entrepreneurs Karen Henry and Jacob Henry. VIBE was born from lived experience. Jacob knew what it meant to be written off, to be seen as a problem before a person. Karen knew what it meant to carry trauma and still show up with compassion. Together, they saw the cracks in the system and chose not to patch them, but to rebuild from the ground up. They founded VIBE not as another youth support service, but as a movement, and one that challenges systems, rewrites narratives, and meets young people where they are. They designed projects that don’t just inform, but transform.
VIBE is rooted in truth, in the belief that change doesn’t come from top-down policies, but from people who’ve lived it, survived it, and now lead it. Karen and Jacob didn’t just create a CIC; they created a mission. One that says: your story matters, your voice matters, and you are never too far gone to come home to yourself.