Young person
Make something real
Projects, podcasts, challenges and clubs live in one calm workspace without followers, likes or an endless feed.
Workspace
Private drafts
Creator tools
My Passport
Invitation-only · Built for under-16s
Create. Learn. Achieve. Safely.
Somewhere a young person can make something real — a podcast, a film, a story, an invention — and be recognised for it by adults who actually watched them do it. No followers. No scores. No strangers.
- Podcast
- Short film
- Story
- Invention
- Game
Children join through a verified parent/guardian or school invitation. Schools start here.
Illustrative example
“Episode 3: Finding Voice.”
Recorded, edited and finished — then shared only after a guardian said yes.
One protected journey
The work moves. The boundaries stay put.
Aurelia connects making, family approval, professional verification and lasting evidence without collapsing children, parents, schools and adults into one social network.
- 01
Create
Make the work in a private, child-owned workspace.
- 02
Approve
A guardian controls what can leave the family space.
- 03
Verify
A teacher confirms skills they genuinely witnessed.
- 04
Keep
Evidence is added to a portable Achievement Passport.
Parent / guardian
See what needs your yes
Parents approve sharing, manage permissions and see achievements without turning private creative work into surveillance.
Workspace
2 approvals waiting
Sharing controls
Family permissions
Teacher / school
Verify what you witnessed
Schools can set briefs, review evidence, verify achievement and keep safeguarding and role boundaries visible.
Workspace
Review queue
Achievement issuer
Safeguarding
16+ Alumni
Carry the work forward
At 16, selected work can move into a separate adult environment for portfolio, mentoring and opportunities.
Workspace
Portfolio
Mentoring
Opportunities
Childhood first
No public popularity metrics, behavioural advertising or open child discovery.
Verified adults
Parents, teachers and organisations receive explicit roles rather than blanket access.
Evidence that lasts
Finished work can become verified evidence a young person carries forward.
What children actually make here
Real things, finished and kept
Not worksheets and not content. Work with drafts behind it, a decision inside it, and someone specific it was made for.
A three-episode series about their neighbourhood
A one-minute film about their street
A picture book written for a younger sibling
A painted series about somewhere they love
A prototype that fixes one annoying thing
A game built around exactly one rule
An answer to a brief about their own community
All images and project titles on this page are illustrative examples created for Aurelia. They are not member work and do not depict identifiable people.
Start with what they love
Interest first, always
A young person who cares about the subject will do harder work than one who is told what to make. Choose a way in — nothing here is ranked, recommended by behaviour, or personalised by tracking.
Making & creating
Podcasts, shows, films and everything that starts with making something.
Science & invention
Prototypes, experiments and the failures that come first.
Storytelling
Writing, illustration, audio and the shape of a good idea.
Design
Type, colour, posters, objects and the craft of making it clear.
Coding & games
Small games, tools and interactive work with real logic behind it.
World & culture
Places, languages, history and the world beyond the classroom.
Enterprise & ideas
Local problems, real audiences and work that is useful to someone.
Verification means an adult who saw the work confirms the skill it shows. It is deliberately harder to earn than a badge, and it belongs to the young person.
One piece of work, one learning journey
From a half-formed idea to something that counts
Every project in Aurelia travels the same route. Nothing skips a step, and nothing is published because it was popular.
- An ideaSomething they actually want to make, not an assignment they endure.
- A draftThe messy first version, kept rather than hidden.
- The makingTools, iteration and the decisions that shaped the outcome.
- Constructive feedbackSpecific, kind, about the work — never a score or a ranking.
- Guardian approvalNothing leaves the family without an explicit yes.
- Teacher verificationAn adult who witnessed the work confirms the skill it shows.
- The PassportDurable, portable evidence the young person keeps.
Childhood first
We left out the things that make children feel measured
Most of what a child meets online is designed to hold their attention. Aurelia is designed to hand it back. What we deliberately did not build matters as much as what we did.
- No follower counts, no likes, no leaderboards and no popularity score.
- No endless feed — sessions end because the work is finished, not because attention ran out.
- No adult direct messages to children, and no open child directory to browse.
- No behavioural targeting, no advertising and no engagement-optimised recommendations.
- Built-in pause points that treat finishing as the reward.
- Creation before consumption, in the structure of the product itself.
Challenges & Clubs
A reason to make something, and people to make it with
Challenges give the work a purpose. Clubs give it company — small, named-adult-supervised groups, with no open messaging and no audience metrics.
- Challenges set by verified schools, groups and organisations.
- Small clubs with named adult supervision and bounded membership.
- No follower counts, no public popularity metrics, no livestreams.
- Submissions inherit the same guardian approval rules as all work.
For the adults around them
Everyone gets exactly the access their role needs
Six roles, six deliberately separated workspaces — and clear limits on every one of them.
Parents & guardians
You approve what leaves the family and you can change your mind later. You see achievements and shared work — not every private draft.
Teachers
Set a brief, review the evidence, and verify the skill you genuinely witnessed. Verification is a professional act, not a button.
Schools & groups
Oversight, safeguarding routes and reporting across classes and sites, with clear role boundaries.
Organisations
Provide challenges, content and opportunities through institutional workflows. Never a child directory, never private contact, never account creation.
Parent community
A verified adult space for the people raising young makers — separate from the child world.
16+ Alumni
A distinct adult environment for portfolio, opportunities and mentoring.
16+ Alumni
Growing up without starting over
At 16, a member moves into a separate adult environment — different rules, different community, no shared social surface with the under-16 world. What they choose to bring, they keep.
- A deliberate transition, not an automatic merge of accounts.
- Selective portfolio and Passport continuity, chosen by the member.
- Opportunities, mentoring and community designed for adults.
- Parent Alumni gives families continuity without child-world access.
Why Aurelia exists
We wanted somewhere children could make things online without becoming the product
Children are creative long before anyone gives them permission to be. What they mostly find online is a place to consume, compare and be counted — and the work they make disappears into someone else's metrics.
We built Aurelia because the alternative should exist: a protected place where a young person makes something real, is given honest feedback by someone who cares about the work, and ends up with evidence of what they can actually do. Not a follower count. Not a streak. Evidence.
That is also why the boundaries are strict. No open registration for children. No organisation browsing children. No adult messaging a child. If a feature would make Aurelia stickier but a child less safe, it does not get built.
Compare the model
Aurelia is not social media, and it is not a school portal
A plain comparison of three different kinds of place a child's work can live. No competitor names, no marketing arithmetic.
| Ordinary social media | Ordinary school portal | Aurelia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Attention and engagement time. | Administration and reporting. | Making real work and recording genuine achievement. |
| Child identity | A public profile, often discoverable. | An institutional record owned by the school. | A protected identity with no public directory of children. |
| Adult access | Strangers can often reach a child. | Staff access defined by the institution. | Verified roles only; organisations never contact children privately. |
| Feedback | Likes, comments and counts. | Grades and marks. | Structured constructive feedback tied to the work itself. |
| Achievement | Popularity signals. | Attainment data. | Verified by an adult who witnessed the work. |
| AI | Often generating and ranking content for you. | Rarely addressed explicitly. | Bounded, age-banded assistance with authorship labelled. |
| Data | Behavioural profiling and advertising. | Institutional data retention. | Minimal data, purpose limits, no behavioural targeting of children. |
| Turning 16 | Nothing changes. | The record usually stays with the school. | A deliberate move to a separate adult environment, carrying selected work. |
Safeguarding
Worried about something you have seen?
Anyone — child, parent, teacher or member of the public — can raise a safeguarding concern. Reports are triaged by urgency and handled through human safeguarding workflows. If someone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first.
Bring Aurelia to your family, school or organisation
Aurelia is invitation-only. Under-16 accounts are sponsored by a verified parent/guardian or school. Tell us who you are and we will guide you through it.