Beyond Resilience is building activewear for kids with protection worked into the fabric itself. No pads, no inserts, nothing that says “careful”. Leggings that look like every other pair in the drawer and behave like nothing else when a kid hits the ground.
For every kid who climbs, rides, skates, slides and falls.
Get in touchExisting protective options for children are borrowed from adult sport or from medical supply. They are bulky, hot, and they look protective, which is exactly why kids refuse to wear them.
Our first product is a legging that sits alongside the best children's activewear on fit, feel and look, with high-performance protective textile knitted into the zones that take the impact when a child falls. It washes, stretches and moves like a normal legging.
Sizing will run from toddler through to teen. Detailed construction and material specifications are shared with partners under NDA.
Use case, performance requirements and target zones defined.
Working with technical textile mills on a knit that meets our stretch, hand-feel and abrasion targets.
Sampling with a cut-and-sew partner; wear testing with real kids. Late 2026.
Limited first release, direct to consumer, with select retail partners. Early 2027.
Claire has spent over 20 years advising Australian businesses through restructuring, growth and negotiation with banks, boards and creditors.
Beyond Resilience started the way a lot of good things do: a mum looking for something that didn't exist. The more she looked, the clearer it became that this wasn't a gap for one child. It was a gap for every kid who skates, climbs, rides, slides and plays hard, and for every parent who has ever winced from the sidelines. Kids shouldn't have to hold back, and their clothes should never be the reason they do.
Claire is building it with the same discipline she brings to client work: clear specifications, realistic timelines, and partners chosen for capability rather than convenience.
Producers of high-performance knits with experience in abrasion-resistant fibres and children's or sports apparel weights.
Activewear manufacturers able to sample and produce small initial runs to a premium standard, in Australia or Asia.
Children's, sport and outdoor retailers interested in early access to the first release.
Melbourne, Australia. Product specifications available to qualified partners under NDA.