MY STORY ORGANISATION COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

What MY STORY ORGANISATION COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY does

My Story Organisation Community Interest Company is a UK-based not-for-profit established in 2024, headquartered in Thatcham, and structured as a Community Interest Company to serve the public benefit. The organisation develops and operates the My Story app, a secure digital life-story platform purpose-built for care-experienced children and young people, alongside the foster carers and social workers who support them. The app enables collaborative recording of life events, relationships, culture, history, interests, and aspirations through multiple media types including drawings, written text, photos, videos, certificates, and documents, supporting a 'Present-Past-Present-Future' framework that underpins traditional life story work in the children's social care sector.

The platform is differentiated by a multi-contributor model in which foster carers add current events and achievements, social workers contribute back-story information prior to placement, and young people themselves own the resulting lifelong digital record. Its positioning is grounded in British Medical Journal research showing that lower-intensity life story work delivered by foster carers can improve wellbeing without requiring specialist professional input over many sessions. The organisation surrounds the core app with a library of more than 30 downloadable professional resources covering identity, mental wellbeing, EHC planning, photo journaling, and cultural planning, distributed through content marketing and professional networks.

The business model is grant and donation funded rather than commercial. The app is provided free to end users, there is no publicly disclosed pricing, and no subscription or per-seat revenue mechanics exist. Distribution is self-serve digital via mobile app stores with a globally available download. The team comprises six identified members combining clinical social work expertise, child protection and advocacy experience, finance leadership from Eurojust, and software development with over 20 years of experience building apps for the children's social care sector. No funding rounds, acquisitions, enterprise customers, or geographic expansion plans are disclosed in the source materials.

Name

MY STORY ORGANISATION COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Legal name

My Story Organisation Community Interest Company

Website

https://mystoryorg.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Short description

My Story Organisation is a UK Community Interest Company that develops the My Story app, a secure digital life-story platform enabling foster carers, social workers, and care-experienced young people to collaboratively build a lifelong digital record of life events, relationships, and heritage, funded by grants and donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Child Welfare Software

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Patient Education, Content & Personalized Journey Orchestration (HLACAEAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Patient Community, Peer Support & Social Engagement (HLACAEAK)

Keywords

• Care-experienced children
• Digital life story
• Foster care support
• Child welfare software
• Life story work

Headquarters

HQ city

Thatcham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding: My Story Organisation is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company supported by grants and donations, committed to investing in the futures of young people

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

My Story Organisation provides the My Story app, a secure digital mobile application that enables care-experienced young people, foster carers, and social workers to collaboratively build a unique lifelong digital record containing drawings, written text, photos, videos, certificates, and other documents. The app supports life story work by allowing multiple stakeholders to contribute present circumstances, back-story information, and future aspirations into a coherent autobiographical narrative that supports identity, belonging, and mental wellbeing.

Product overview

My Story Organisation Community Interest Company offers a single unified product: the My Story App. This app is a digital life-story building platform designed specifically for care-experienced young people and those caring for them. It enables users to record and preserve significant life events, interests, talents, aspirations, relationships, culture, and history through multiple media types including drawings, written text, photos, videos, certificates, and documents. The platform supports a 'life story work' approach, allowing foster carers, social workers, and young people themselves to collaboratively build a coherent autobiographical narrative.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• My Story App A secure, unlimited, and easy-access digital mobile application enabling care-experienced young people and their carers to build a unique lifelong digital record of their life journey, including drawings, written text, photos, videos, certificates, and other documents. Designed for foster carers, social workers, and care-experienced young people to collaboratively record and preserve significant life events, interests, talents, aspirations, relationships, culture, and history.

Quantifiable outcome

• Life story work delivered in lower-intensity way by foster carers can support children's wellbeing and future expectations without requiring specialist professional input over many sessions

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Liquidlogic: Liquidlogic supplies digital case-management and workflow software to health and social-care organisations, including children's services. It is comparable through the same institutional social-care buyers and digital record infrastructure, but not through life-story journaling.
• Access Group: Access Group offers broad social-care and public-sector software, including Mosaic-style children's services case management. It is a broad incumbent that could compete for the same digital service records and buyer budgets, though its portfolio is much wider.
• Nourish Care: Nourish provides digital care-management and planning software for care providers. It overlaps in sensitive care records, user workflows, and digital service delivery, but does not offer the same autobiographical narrative focus.
• Charitylog: Charitylog provides cloud case-management, outcomes, and service-record software for charities and social-purpose organisations. It is relevant to the same support-provider customer base and recordkeeping workflows, but not to a child-specific life-story product.

Emerging players

• LifeBook: LifeBook offers guided autobiographical memoir creation, including interviews and printed books, for individuals. It is relevant as a life-story capture and preservation peer, although its general-consumer focus differs from care-experienced children and professional child-welfare users.
• MyHeritage: MyHeritage is a broad family-history and genealogy platform for preserving photos, historical records, and family connections. It is adjacent to the lifelong-record proposition, but does not focus on foster care, social work, or collaborative autobiographical storytelling.
• StoryWorth: StoryWorth sends guided family-history prompts and compiles responses into keepsake books. It shares the longitudinal life-story capture use case, but serves families rather than looked-after children and lacks a professional case workflow.
• Story Terrace: Story Terrace provides professionally written memoir and biography services, turning interviews into books. It is comparable in the creation of coherent personal narratives, but not a digital care-record or child-welfare product.

Others

• FamilySearch: FamilySearch is a family-history platform for preserving, organising, and discovering historical records and photos. It offers an adjacent model for lifelong personal records, but does not serve foster carers, social workers, or care-experienced youth as its primary workflow.
• The Fostering Network: The Fostering Network is a UK fostering-sector membership and professional-support organisation. It is comparable as the user and practitioner ecosystem through which foster carers and social workers are reached, rather than as a direct software competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/mystoryorg

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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