Australia's first inclusive youth community marketplace

Ciaralink Projects · Made in Kensington

Your community, all in one place. Discover, create, grow.

Make an account and we take you straight to your own community. See what your neighbours are making, join a local project, and back an idea growing near you.

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Free to joinGuardian consented for under 18sHuman checked before anything goes live
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Tell us your suburb

We open your local community, not a generic feed.

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See what's happening near you

Local creators, projects and events, updated this week.

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Join, create or support

Get involved, or start your own project with SOL's help.

Your community right now: Kensington 3031 · 9 things happening this week
Built to meet Australia's child safety standardsSafety we engineer in, so your family never has to carry it We never store your ID A real person checks every listing No stranger messaging kids Built for Victoria's Child Safe Standards eSafety Safety by Design Money to the guardian How we keep everyone safe →

Nervous about your teen online? Good. So are we. That's why the platform carries the safety, not your family, accredited checks, a real human approving every listing, and no adult can message your child directly.

One community at a time

Find your community

Kensington is our founding community. The suburbs around it open next, so kids and families in the inner north west can get involved close to home. Join the waitlist and be first when yours goes live.

Kensington
3031 · founding community
Live now
Flemington
3031 · next door
Opening next
North Melbourne
3051
Opening soon
Ascot Vale
3032
Opening soon
Moonee Ponds
3039
Opening soon
Braybrook
3019
Opening soon
Maribyrnong
3032 · nearby
Opening soon
Footscray
3011 · nearby
Opening soon
Your suburb?
Tell us and we'll bring it next

There is nothing else like this

The first platform in Australia to bring all of it together

We looked. Teen job apps, task marketplaces, NDIS platforms and youth business programs each do a piece of this. Not one of them does the whole thing: young people and people with disability creating real local projects, kept safe, building a verifiable record, and earning when they sell.

Youth-led Disability & NDIS included Your own suburb Child-safe by design A verifiable SOL Passport Earn when you sell
Teen job appsTask apps
(Airtasker)		NDIS platforms
(Mable)		Youth programsCiaralink
Projects
Young people create & earn~✕✕~✓
Includes people with disability✕✕✓✕✓
Scoped to your own suburb~~✕✕✓
Child-safe safeguarding ladder✕✕n/a✕✓
Verifiable skills Passport✕✕✕~✓
Earn when you sell✓✓✕✕✓

Kensington · your community this week

What's happening in your community

This is what a Kensington account opens to. Real neighbours making, baking, fixing and building, each carrying a visible trust status.

Featured projects in the Kensington pilot include Max's Cupcakes, Kai's Computer Help, Leo's Bin Cleaning, Mira Photography and Sam's Gardening, alongside supported community projects such as the Community Cafe Team, Local Stories Media, the Garden and Market, the Teen Business Builder and the Inclusive Events Crew. Every listing shows its safety level, from family supported to verified business, so families can see how each young creator is supported before anything goes live.

The archetype, safely built

Max's Cupcakes

A 14 year old creator. Everything a safeguarding reviewer asks for is answered, in the data.

Max, 14
Kensington baker
Family supported

Home-baked cupcakes, made with mum on weekends

★★★★★ “Delicious, and Max was so proud handing them over.”
PriceFrom $24 a box of six
VerificationFamily supported · guardian supervises all contact
AccessibilityPickup point is street-level, step-free
PayoutGoes to the guardian, never the child directly
Why this is safe: Guardian consent is on file. A human on the Ciaralink Safety Team approved it before it went live. Any adult who enquires is supervised and routed to Max's mum, never to Max.

Built for everyone in your community

Whoever you are, there is a way in

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Families

Safe, local, meaningful things for your kids to do, and an easy way to support young people nearby.

Create a family account →
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Young people & teens

Turn what you love into a real project, make your first sales, and build a record that gets you noticed.

Start your project →
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NDIS participants & support workers

Real community participation with goals, evidence and outcomes, not busywork. Costs kept clear and separate.

See how it works →
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Local businesses

Sponsor a project, mentor a team, or find young talent, and be seen backing your community.

Support a project →
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Councils & schools

Measurable local outcomes: participation, skills, employment pathways and safety, all reported.

Talk to us →

Your guide inside the community

Meet SOL

Not sure where to start? SOL knows your community.

Tell SOL what you like and it finds real, safe, local things to do, or helps you turn your own idea into a project. It only ever recommends listings that genuinely exist near you.

Talk to SOL out loud →
Hi, I'm SOL. Tell me what you're into and I'll find something near you in Kensington this week.

Proof, not promises

The SOL Passport

Every project, skill and endorsement recorded. Over time it becomes worth more than a résumé, because it is evidence.

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Max

Kensington 3031 · member since July 2026
SOL Passport
1Project done
1Skill
12Volunteer hrs
1Endorsement
1Badge
Employment-ready summary
I made my first real sales through Ciaralink Projects in Kensington, learned baking and cake decorating, ran a stall at the Market Day, gave 12 volunteer hours at the community garden, and earned an endorsement: “Max shows up, listens, and takes real pride in his work.”

Why now

The need is real, and the timing is right

1 in 5

Young people with disability are left out of work

Only about one in five NDIS participants aged 15 to 24 are employed. Ciaralink Projects turns local participation into real experience, evidence and first earnings.

NDIS participant employment outcomes, ages 15 to 24
First

Of its kind in Australia

No other platform brings youth, disability inclusion, local projects, child-safe safeguarding, a skills passport and a real marketplace together. This is new.

Verified across 100+ sources, 2026
Backed

By the direction advocates are calling for

Peak body CYDA has asked government to fund youth and disability led social enterprises and local, place based community hubs. Exactly this model.

CYDA submission to the Department of Social Services, 2025
For councils and MPs, see the case → Open the pitch deck

Safety is the product

The verification ladder

Every creator carries a visible trust status. Only verified creators take payment. Anything involving a minor needs guardian consent and human approval before it goes live.

  1. 1 Community idea · still forming, cannot take money
  2. 2 Family supported · guardian supervises
  3. 3 Mentor supported · backed by an approved adult or org
  4. 4 Verified business · ABN and WWCC checked
  5. 5 Organisation run · delivered by a registered org

Help first, earn second

Honest pricing

Community memberYoung people, participants, familiesFree
Growing creatorOnly when you're already earning$19 to 29/mo
OrganisationProviders, schools, community groups$99/mo
Founding KensingtonFirst 6 months of the pilot$49/mo
Platform feeOnly on a successful sale5%

$5 of every paid subscription flows into the Community Support Fund: equipment, transport and scholarships for creators who can't afford them.