Empowering diverse community voices through media, education & social impact. Bridging cultural and digital gaps across the UK.
Uplifting and Amplifying Community Voice is our Superpower! 💫
15/08/2025
📬 Our Summer Newsletter is here!
✨ The ACE Team's incredible transformation
🏛️ Museum of London Archaeology collaboration
💪 Real employment pathways created
🎨 Creative economic empowerment success
🎉 Special day trip celebrating our heritage champions - showing rural young people creative possibilities beyond North Devon
Plus responses are already coming in from the community - exciting times ahead!
Discover our heritage methodology breakthroughs, MOLA collaboration success, and exciting day trip celebrating The ACE Team's incredible journey
02/08/2025
🎉 What an incredible showcase!
Our Young Voices Heritage™ event at Bideford Library exceeded all expectations. The professional recognition we received was genuinely moving.
MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) said it perfectly:
"The young people were the crucial key component that made the event so interesting."
✨ Freya (age 10) managing sound engineering like a pro
✨ Fire's wisdom: "Be Kind - Treat them like you like to be treated"
✨ Physical hugs from heritage professionals celebrating our young people
✨ Stakeholders travelling specifically to see what we've achieved
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The transformation has been remarkable: 100% of participants report increased social connections. These sessions became "the highlight of their week."
One participant already progressed from attendee → volunteer → moving toward employment.
For organisations interested in similar approaches, we're happy to chat.
04/07/2025
🌟 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to Ace Holds The Space GROUP! 🌟
You might have noticed our shiny new cover photo - and yes, we've evolved! 🚀
What's changed? We've grown from a single service to a comprehensive GROUP of organisations, all proudly Bideford-based while nationally connected to bring amazing opportunities TO our community.
🏠 Still the same heart: Serving Devon communities since 2022
📈 Now with more impact:
- Media & Content Creation for organisations across Devon
- Young Voices In Heritage workshops (currently at Bideford Library!)
- Community Sparks Channel - our podcast reaching national audiences
- Alignment Creation Enterprises - our social enterprise securing funding for local projects
Why this matters for YOU: We're bringing professional heritage skills and portfolio-building opportunities right here to Bideford and North Devon. No need to travel to London or Bristol - world-class heritage work is happening in YOUR community! 💪
🎉 SPEAKING OF WHICH... Want to see this in action?
Join us for our Young Voices In Heritage SHOWCASE where our incredible young participants will present the heritage content they've created!
📅 Thursday 17th July
📍 Bideford Library - Juniper Room
🎟️ Free to attend
Come see how Bideford-based young people are creating heritage documentation and building portfolios for creative careers - all while staying right here in Devon! ✨
This is what 'professional training with community heart' looks like!
Link to event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1745814019657503?
Ready to see what YOUR community can achieve?
📧 Get in touch: [email protected]
🌐 Learn more: www.aceholdsthespace.com
Thanks to for hosting our workshops and supporting young heritage voices!
27/06/2025
🎉 Something special is coming to Bideford Library! 🎉
Our incredible ACE Team (ages 10-16) have created their own original podcasts AND gone on to do professional heritage documentation with Museum of London Archaeology. Now it's time to celebrate their amazing journey!
Thursday, July 17th | 3:30-5:00 PM | Bideford Library
FREE community showcase - everyone welcome!
Come and hear the podcasts they created themselves, see their heritage fieldwork in action, and meet the young people who went from complete beginners to skilled broadcasters preserving Bideford's stories.
"The young people were the crucial key component that made the event so interesting." - Museum of London Archaeology
Could not be prouder of our Ace Team! They've created something really special here - connecting generations through stories of our changing coast. This is community heritage work at its finest! 🏆
The fantastic Ace Team from Ace Holds The Space - Community Sparks Channel in Bideford attended our Memory Workshop last month.
The talented young people in the group created their own interview questions to demonstrate coastal change, and interviewed session participants to record their memories.
Watch this space for the fascinating audio content from the event coming soon!
This is a FREE event and Refreshments are provided.
Looking forward to meeting you all!💛
UPDATE ON EVENT TIMES 🌞
To ensure people are more easily able to attend on a working day, we have changed the session to start 3pm instead of 2:30 (with doors open from 2:30 if you fancy a social) and workshop commencing 3:30pm👍🏼
SCHEDULE
3 - 3:30: update from Alignment Creation Enterprises
3:30 - 5pm: Creatives Economic Empowerment Workshop
5:30pm close
This is a FREE event and Refreshments are provided.
Looking forward to meeting you all!💛
28/02/2025
Here is our associate Social Enterprise Alignment Creation Enterprises flexing some economic empowerment muscle for creatives💪😀 book and ensure your seat!
Come meet us and join a workshop designed to economically empower, by Erica Wolfe-Murray, a passionate advocate for the Creative Industries.
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In August ‘18, I left my job after 5 years of service in a large medical organisation. I was tired, burned out and felt I was not doing what I was meant to be doing in this lifetime.
I pressed the ‘reset’ button!
I took a caravan and left for Devon! After freaking out having nothing to do and literally forcing myself to uncomfortably do nothing, I finally remembered my purpose, who I was, what brings me joy, all the work I had done at university, all the research thereafter, and the sadness of it all still gathering dust in my hard drive.
After some ‘fear of the unknown’ and ‘I can’t possibly do it’ thoughts, I finally realised I had no choice but to get on with it; there was a spark driving me inside, a little voice that just got louder, saying, “if you don’t do it now you will never do it!”
So finally, without it seemed, any real effort; at the point when I stopped fighting; everything started to fall into place. The minute I stopped ‘trying’ and started ‘living’ and honouring who I am, things got better, the pages got written, the ideas formed and the vision from years ago got a wide-band, technicoloured tune-up as I re-looked at it all with a fresh perspective.
I had rediscovered (or remembered) what makes me tick, what makes me want to get up in the mornings! What fills me with joy and motivation!
So yep, here it is, my small offering to the Universe and even if nothing comes from it, I know I will have averted the one thing I never wanted to experience, the empty sound of swinging in my rocking chair (more likely a hammock) in my twilight years, wondering......what if ?
