An Inner Wings initiative

A personal tutor
that helps every child fly.

Volara is an AI tutor built for GCSE and A-Level students — aligned to their exact exam board, patient enough to ask anything, and free in the schools that need it most.

Privilege buys personalised education. Volara makes it free.

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Already helping students study across AQA, Edexcel and more.

The problem

The playing field isn't level

The difference between a child who thrives and one who's left behind is often just access to attention. Right now, that access is bought.

A child in a small class

Six to fifteen pupils, real individual attention
A teacher with the time to reach everyone
A private tutor when a concept won't land
The freedom to ask without fear

Privilege pays for this.

A child in a class of thirty-five

One teacher spread across thirty-five pupils
Enormous variance in the ability of peers
No tutor, and little one-to-one time
The struggling, quiet child disappears

No one pays for this.

Volara gives every child the second thing the first child takes for granted.

How it works

A structured tutor, not a chatbot

Volara maps to each student's subjects and exact exam board, then teaches to it — lesson by lesson, grounded in real academic sources.

Built to the exam board

Students pick their subjects and board — AQA, Edexcel and more. Every module maps to exactly what they'll be tested on.

Structured lessons

Each topic runs a full lesson: the formal definition, interactive flashcards, a real-world example, and an exam tip — then a quiz.

Grounded in real sources

Explanations are drawn from cited academic material — twenty-six sources on the opening conformity lesson alone. Not an AI inventing answers.

Test, track, progress

Quizzes mix multiple-choice and written answers. Points, levels and a clear dashboard keep students moving and motivated.

Volara 120 ptsLevel 2

AQA · Psychology AQA · Business Edexcel · Maths

Social InfluenceSTART

Memory✓ DONE

Attachment✓ DONE

Approaches in PsychologySTART

BiopsychologySTART

The tutor in action

No hand to raise. No fear. Just understanding.

A real exchange from Volara. Ask anything, as often as you need — and watch an abstract idea turn into something you actually recognise.

Sarah · your tutor

I don't understand the difference between conformity and obedience. Can you explain it simply?

Conformity is when you change your behaviour to fit in with a group — yielding to social pressure, even when no one tells you to.

Obedience is following direct orders from an authority figure. There's a clear power dynamic.

Are they always distinct?Can one lead to the other?

Real-world example · generated live

The Dress Code Shift

You wear what you like — until you start a new job where everyone dresses formally. Within weeks you've bought blazers and stopped wearing trainers, because you feel the unspoken pressure to fit in.

Takeaway Conformity is altering what you do because of group pressure — real or imagined.

Grounded in 26 cited academic sources

Built on a foundation that works

From Inner Wings

Volara is the newest initiative from Inner Wings, a registered UK charity with a proven record of getting into schools and changing outcomes.

230+

UK partner schools

33,000+

children graduated

1,100+

teachers trained

80%

feel more confident

“

The work Inner Wings does has a real impact on both pupils and teachers, and is genuinely making a difference.

Baroness Estelle Morris · former Secretary of State for Education and Skills

The founders

Built by parents, for every child

Volara and Inner Wings were co-founded by Melissa Di Donato Roos and Darren Roos.

Melissa Di Donato Roos

Co-founder

Chair & CEO of Kyriba, board member at Porsche and J.P. Morgan Europe, and author of children's books that help girls build confidence. Named one of the Top 10 most influential women in UK technology.

Darren Roos

Co-founder

Chair of IFS, ThinkProject and Sitecore, with 25+ years building global software companies. Founder of the IFS Foundation, which has raised nearly $1 million to break the poverty cycle in Sri Lanka.

Sponsor Volara

Fund the reach, not the build

Volara is already built. Sponsorship doesn't pay to create it — it puts it in the hands of children who could never afford a tutor, and keeps it evolving.

1 · Fixed operating cost

~£150k / year

A lean five-person team.

Two school-outreach roles driving adoption
Two to three engineers evolving the product

Stable and predictable.

2 · Variable compute

Scales with reach

Cloud and AI compute grows only with usage — and that's the point:

Every extra pound of compute is another child being tutored.

Sponsor a single school, a region, or a defined cohort of students for a year.

Donations are processed securely by the Inner Wings Foundation. Illustrative compute tiers (1k / 10k / 100k / 500k students) shared on request.

Our sponsors

Backed by people who build

Volara's founding sponsors keep it free for the schools that need it most. There's a place at every level — from organisations to individuals.

Foundation Sponsor

Lead the mission

For organisations backing Volara at national scale — putting a personal tutor within reach of a generation of children.

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Partner

Back a community

For companies and family offices funding Volara across schools, a region, or a defined cohort of students.

Talk to us →

Supporter

Back a child

For individuals who want to help directly. Every contribution goes to reaching more children.

Donate →

Everyone Volara is for

One tutor, three ways in

Students

Study your subjects your way — with a tutor that never runs out of patience and always explains it again.

Start learning

Schools

Give every pupil one-to-one support at no cost to families. We handle onboarding end to end.

Give every child the tutor privilege pays for.

The most powerful tool of our era, applied to the single biggest lever in a child's life — and offered, for free, to the children who need it most.

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A personal tutorthat helps every child fly.