Heritage Project Support

Supporting communities to preserve their stories through co-production and strategic coordination

Our Approach

We work alongside heritage organisations and community groups, facilitating rather than imposing. Our methodology centres on community ownership whilst ensuring professional quality outcomes.

When communities lead their own heritage preservation, something remarkable happens. Stories that might never have been shared emerge naturally. People who've never felt comfortable being recorded suddenly want to contribute. Young people discover connections to their heritage they didn't know existed.

We've spent three years working out how to create these conditions. It's quite particular work that requires understanding both heritage preservation and community dynamics. It requires patience, genuine respect, and willingness to work at community pace.

Service Areas

Community Co-Production

Heritage isn't just about the past - it's about how communities see themselves today and imagine their futures. We facilitate authentic co-production where communities determine what stories matter and how they're told.

What this involves:

Intergenerational Story Collection: Bringing together different perspectives across age groups. Young people interviewing elders. Middle generations bridging gaps. Everyone's voice valued equally.

Youth-Led Documentation: Young people become heritage explorers through our validated methodology. They bring fresh questions, genuine curiosity, and create connections that surprise everyone.

Community Memory Preservation: Capturing everyday histories often overlooked by traditional heritage work. The shops that closed. The traditions that changed. The floods remembered. The characters who shaped place.

Oral History Projects: Professional-quality recording of voices before they're lost. We create conditions where people feel comfortable sharing stories they've never told.

Strategic Planning: Working with communities to identify what matters most, what's at risk, and how to preserve it sustainably. We don't arrive with predetermined narratives about what heritage should be preserved. We create space for communities to identify, explore, and preserve what matters to them.

Content Development & Curation

Creating heritage content is just the beginning. The real value comes from strategic curation and ongoing development that extends impact far beyond initial recordings.

Our content approach includes:

Multi-Format Adaptation: One story becomes podcast, video, archive entry, exhibit content - reaching different audiences in appropriate ways

Strategic Publishing: Content released thoughtfully, not dumped online. We respect both stories and audiences through careful curation

Archive Development: Creating sustainable systems for long-term preservation that communities can maintain

Digital Integration: Thoughtfully combining traditional approaches with modern technology - QR codes linking to audio, digital maps, online archives

Ongoing Curation Support: Heritage isn't static. We provide continuing support as collections grow and evolve

Platform Management: Making technology serve stories

We maintain very high standards for what gets published. Many organisations hold content for member portals or future monetisation strategies. What appears publicly represents careful curation, not everything recorded.

Project Coordination

Heritage projects involve multiple stakeholders, complex timelines, and sensitive community relationships. We provide coordination that keeps projects moving whilst respecting community pace.

Coordination support covers:

Stakeholder Liaison: Bringing together heritage organisations, funders, communities, venues, and technical partners. Everyone understanding their role.

Timeline Management: Balancing efficiency with community readiness. Some stories take months to emerge. That's perfectly fine.

Resource Coordination: Ensuring right equipment, right expertise, right support at right time. No community left struggling with technology.

Partnership Facilitation: Some projects need multiple organisations working together. We facilitate collaboration whilst protecting community interests.

Evaluation Frameworks: Capturing both numbers and nuance. Funders need statistics. Communities need stories. Both matter.

Report Development: Creating reports that satisfy funders whilst celebrating community achievement. Professional standards, community voice.

Legacy Planning: Ensuring sustainability beyond project funding. Training community members.

Contact Us

For Heritage Project Support contact Roshani Ramass

Heritage Project Support Services: roshani@aceholdsthespace.com
General Enquiries: assist@aceholdsthespace.com