Welcome to SPACE
Rooted in equity. Driven by creativity. Powered by people.
What We Do
🛠 Train 18–24 year olds through a one-year Social Enterprise Management apprenticeship — placing them with ethical, values-driven business mentors.
👣 Embed in local areas through relational outreach, creative assets, and embedded conversation spaces.
👨👩👧 Co-create projects like SPACE:PRINTLY, the youth-led merch studio, and SPACE:WALK, our intergenerational walking movement for social reconnection.
🌿 Build shared power — through community time credits, open meetings, and storytelling as accountability.
Our Values:
Care - We meet people with hospitality, not hierarchy
Agency - Young people shape the curriculum and lead decision-making
Clarity - We name systems: austerity, extraction, injustice
Imagination - We design futures based on need — not limited by the present
👇 Get Involved
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→ Partner With Us
→ Volunteer
→ Join Our Apprenticeship Waitlist
“SPACE isn’t a service. It’s a system — for belonging, building, and becoming.”
If you're tired of temporary solutions, extractive models, and well-meaning work that doesn’t shift the dial — come build with us. We’re growing gardens where the system left gaps.
SPACE is a living, breathing social enterprise ecosystem — rethinking what community infrastructure can be in a world shaped by austerity, burnout, and exclusion.
Founded in Hertford and seeded by lived experience, SPACE activates everyday places — from Uber rides to corner shops — as spaces of care, learning, and transformation. It’s not just about service delivery. It’s about shifting power, amplifying working-class intelligence, and building something collectively owned from the ground up.
Whether you join us as an apprentice, supporter, partner or local steward — SPACE is here for those who believe real change starts with relationship, and grows through action.
Our Mission
To build a cooperative platform where community members — especially young people — can design, govern, and sustain the social structures they deserve.
This is community enterprise reimagined.
© Rob Dawson | Independent Thinker. System Rebuilder.
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