Australia's first inclusive youth community marketplace
Young people create and earn. Single mums and dads get neighbour help. Child safety is engineered into the product, not bolted on after.
We open your local community, not a generic national feed.
Marketplace for teens. Family board for single parents. Noticeboard for orgs.
SOL helps you start safely. A real person approves anything public.
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
Live communities across the inner north west, Hume, northern and western suburbs (Keilor, Sunshine, Caroline Springs and more). Kensington is the founding hub. Pick your suburb, join free, and land in your own feed, Family board and noticeboard.
There is nothing else like this
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.
| Teen job apps | Task apps (Airtasker) | NDIS platforms (Mable) | Youth programs | Ciaralink Projects |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
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
A 14 year old creator. Everything a safeguarding reviewer asks for is answered, in the data.
One suburb, whole community
Your suburb's Family board: meals, school runs, childcare swaps and parent meetups. Parent-to-parent only. Free.
Join as a single parent →Safe local things for kids to join, one-tap pause if something feels off, and a board of real neighbours.
Create a family account →Turn what you love into a real project, make your first sales, and build a Passport that proves you showed up.
Start your project →Real community participation with goals, evidence and outcomes, not busywork. Costs kept clear and separate.
See how it works →Sponsor a project, mentor a team, or find young talent, and be seen backing your community.
Support a project →Measurable local outcomes: participation, skills, employment pathways and safety, all reported.
Talk to us →Your guide inside the 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 →Proof, not promises
Every project, skill and endorsement recorded. Over time it becomes worth more than a résumé, because it is evidence.
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
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 24No 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, 2026Peak 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, 2025Safety is the product
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.
Help first, earn second
$5 of every paid subscription flows into the Community Support Fund: equipment, transport and scholarships for creators who can't afford them.
Demo only. No live card charges. Uses Stripe test mode if a test key is set, otherwise in-app demo pay.