NEW INITIATIVE
Devon Community Media and Co-Production
We work alongside communities and organisations to create services and content that connects. From cultural and heritage documentation to learning sessions that build wellbeing, confidence and self-advocacy.
We are community connectors. We build bridges and bridge gaps. Years of practice have taught us how to hold a platform for community voice, and how to help others hold one too.
Welcome to
Ace Holds The Space Group
“Where Your Community - Become Its Own Stars”
At Ace Holds The Space we believe in the power and potential of communities.
Through our two initiatives - Ace Holds The Space and Alignment Creation Enterprises - we provide media services, educational workshops, and social impact projects that empower diverse voices and bridge cultural gaps.
Community Media Production
Professional Media Services - Our content creation, audios, and marketing-media services help organisations promote their services effectively. We reduce the challenge of creating and managing digital content by enabling dynamic, interactive outreach and communication.
Educational Workshops
Creative Skills Workshops - Our Audioart and Podcasting workshops for youth and adults build confidence and creativity. Recent workshops at Barnstaple Library, Bideford Library and South Molton Heritage Project, introduced a new generation to digital storytelling and media production skills.
Social Impact
Community Empowerment - Through Alignment Creation Enterprises, we deliver engaging media workshops and heritage projects that empower young people while creating meaningful content for community organisations.
Our Initiatives
Media Production & Education
Social Impact
How We Work
Social Impact Focus - Through our thoughtful structure, we ensure every project receives the right approach:
Ace Holds The Space Group Ltd provides media production expertise. Alignment Creation Enterprises (we call ALN for short) is a Company Limited by Guarantee delivering community work and holding community benefit funding. ALN is a not-for-profit social enterprise. Its articles state it is not established or conducted for private gain, and that any surplus must be applied for the benefit of the community. Distributions to members are capped at 25%, a tighter restriction than a Community Interest Company (C.I.C) carries.
The two are separate legal entities with separate accounts and separate governance. ALN is currently building an independent board and we are encouraging community members to join. We manage conflicts of interest through a declared register.
"Bridging cultural and digital gaps"
"Empower diverse community voices through art, culture, and expression"
"Boost awareness of social issues"
"Dedicated to building safe spaces"
"Inspiring education and learning"
"Facilitate communities to explore meaningful topics"
"Help people overcome financial and personal challenges to achieve their creative goals"
"Assist public services, charities, and community groups to engage hard to reach groups and more of their community"
"Form lasting connections"
"Bridging cultural and digital gaps" "Empower diverse community voices through art, culture, and expression" "Boost awareness of social issues" "Dedicated to building safe spaces" "Inspiring education and learning" "Facilitate communities to explore meaningful topics" "Help people overcome financial and personal challenges to achieve their creative goals" "Assist public services, charities, and community groups to engage hard to reach groups and more of their community" "Form lasting connections"
For Young People
(Ages 10-25)
Explore creative media, learn professional skills, and discover your pathway in podcasting, video production, photography, and more.
Youth Creative Media Devon
offers free drop-in socials and structured projects across Devon.
NEW INITIATIVE
YCM Go
Youth creative media, run by your team, supported by ours.
After a lot of enquiries from youth providers, councils, cultural development officers and charities across Devon, we've made our Youth Creative Media work available for other organisations to run themselves. Training for your staff, ongoing supervision, materials, kit and media publishing guidance.
You deliver it. We're behind you.
Find out more → workshops
Testimonials - feedback from our Clients
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SS Freshspring Steamship
“Working with Roshani on our podcasting project has been a joy. She is so enthusiastic, knowledgable and kind in all her interactions. We now have such a wealth of material and I am impressed every time I dip into our podcast library, they make me smile!”
Annemarie Shillito - Deputy Chair SS Freshspring Trust
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Soundart Radio FM
“Thanks for all the fab content you've done. Love the Jingle! Thanks so much! We have downloaded it and we continue to play it on the show!”
SOUNDART 102.5 FM - ‘Everybody Counts’ Skills For Life Multiply Project
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Museum of London Archeology (MOLA)
"The young people were the crucial key component that made the event so interesting."
Kate Shear, Museum of London Archeology - Coasts in Mind Project
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Libraries Unlimited - Bideford
“Thanks for this Roshani - the community podcast sounds really good. We could definitely do with more of the same!”
Community Development Officer, Bideford
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Bideford Arts, Culture & Heritage Group
"These are really great promotional videos, thanks very much!"
John Puddy, Arts, Culture Heritage - Bideford Regeneration
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Sunrise Diversity Charity
“We were delighted to have Roshani from Ace holds The Space podcasting to capture the event in audio form on International Women’s Day at Petroc College. Thanks again for the amazing work. It is brilliant!”
Ana Lodge CEO, Sunrise Diversity
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River Radio Exeter (AWE)
“Thanks so much for our 10 Jingles!! - people really liked the space that you held and the experience you shaped for their participation in the River Radio project, it was really appreciated.”
Stuart Crewes, Creative Director
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The Youth ACE Team
"This was epic. I loved making it. I hope we get to do more of these things in the future."
“We all did really well. It's been really fun. We love this.”
"Thank you, Roshani. She brought the equipment, helped us learn, helped us edit, and provided a safe space for young people for free at the local library. We're very thankful."
ACE Team Participants - Young Voices in Heritage™ Programme
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Community Contributor - Pete Harman
"After you came and documented my photographs and recorded my talk, the work you have done is absolutely brilliant. The photo of my painting I saw in the centre has come up really good and the audios people have listened to, say the recordings are absolutely brilliant too!"
Peter Harman - Heritage Documentary Speaker and Photographer, Fremington Quay
Introducing Young Voices in Heritage™
Transforming young lives while preserving local heritage
We are the originators of Young Voices in Heritage™ - an innovative initiative combining audio art with heritage documentation. Our participants progress from creative skills to working with cultural heritage organisations on real community projects.
"The young people were the crucial key component that made the event so interesting."
- Museum of London Archeology (MOLA)
Programme Structure:
Audio Art & Recording Skills foundations
Advanced Podcasting & Digital Storytelling
Heritage Field Experience with professional partners
Progression through participant → volunteer → employment pathways
Proven Impact:
✓ 100% improvement in participant confidence
✓ Particularly transformative for home-schooled and isolated young people
✓ Creates sustainable community connections whilst preserving heritage
✓ Academic collaboration with Museum of London Archaeology
Expanding Cohorts: Young Voices from 10 - 16 now has expanded to (10-25) | Young Adult programme developed.
Our evidence-based methodology transforms young people into confident, cultural heritage documentarians, preserving irreplaceable local knowledge through intergenerational engagement.
Built on 15 years of research into how communities learn and work together and further developed through three years of systematic research (2022-2025), this audio-first approach creates psychological safety enabling authentic storytelling that honours participants as creative contributors.
Cultural Heritage Projects in Action
Preserving Devon's community stories whilst creating real opportunities for young people
Our Young Voices in Heritage™ methodology, applied across two major Devon heritage projects, combining professional media training with heritage preservation.
SOUTH MOLTON PANNIER MARKET HERITAGE PROJECT
Partnership: Heritage Lottery Fund | South Molton Town Council
Timeline: January - July 2026
Thanks to National Lottery players, we delivered Heritage Officer services for this £234,000 project celebrating the Pannier Market's community heritage alongside the restoration of its Victorian Patent Glass roof.
What we did: An 11-week youth media programme for ages 14 to 25, expanded to take a second group aged 11 to 14 because of demand. Community coffee mornings collecting market memories. Visual and oral heritage displays. A Market Celebration Heritage Open Day on 4 July 2026.
The heritage display is now on show at the Amory Centre in South Molton.
Young people gain professional portfolio work, certificates, and potential employment pathways whilst preserving South Molton's heritage for future generations.
Learn more about South Molton project →
FREMINGTON QUAY HERITAGE CENTRE
Working alongside the Heritage Centre's volunteer committee to develop their interactive exhibit, bringing community voices and young people's oral history recording into the telling of the Quay's story.
A historic quayside on the Tarka Trail, once the busiest port between Bristol and Falmouth, and a place where the memories are still living.
See the Fremington Quay project → Professional heritage project management services supporting the development of an interactive museum exhibit at this historic quayside location.
Want to get involved in heritage projects?
Listening to peoples stories and creating them is so great for Wellbeing!
Connect to our dedicated Channel!
Our content creation fosters connection and learning, building a stronger community. Giving people voice through our platforms, empowers and spreads hope by highlighting diversity, our resilience and strength.
A big thank you to these organisations for their training, collaborations, funding, and support.
