"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 learning"
"Facilitate communities to explore meaningful topics"
"Help artists to 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 learning" "Facilitate communities to explore meaningful topics" "Help artists to 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 Through Creative Media
About Ace Holds The Space Group
We create community connections through professional media production and heritage education, addressing isolation whilst preserving local stories for future generations.
Our Journey
Founded in Feburary 2022 by Roshani Ramass, Ace Holds The Space Group emerged from 15 years researching organisations and how people learn and work together. Since 2022, we've applied this research directly through community media work - discovering what actually enables authentic storytelling and genuine collaboration.
What started with experimental wellbeing podcasts during post-pandemic isolation evolved into validated methodology now recognised by heritage sector professionals and academics. We're based in Barnstaple, serving communities across North Devon and beyond.
How We Work
We operate through two complementary structures:
Ace Holds The Space provides professional media production and heritage project coordination for organisations needing expert delivery alongside community engagement.
Alignment Creation Enterprises (our social enterprise arm) delivers community programmes, creative workshops, and empowerment initiatives ensuring social impact remains central to everything we do.
This dual structure means organisations benefit from professional standards whilst communities receive genuine, accessible support. Funders support measurable social change through sustainable delivery.
What We've Built
Since 2022, we've produced community audio projects spanning wellbeing podcasts, maritime heritage documentation, and youth-led storytelling. We've worked alongside the Museum of London Archaeology, Libraries Unlimited, Steamship Freshspring Trust, and numerous community groups across Devon.
Our Young Voices in Heritage™ methodology gained academic recognition which will be presented at TAG2025 Conference (University of York) in December. Heritage professionals describe our community co-production approach as enabling stories and engagement that traditional methods miss.
We've recently progressed to final stages for heritage co-production contracts involving exhibition content creation and project management - reflecting growing recognition that communities documenting their own heritage, with professional support, creates more authentic outcomes than traditional extraction approaches.
Our Team
We've built a skilled team combining youth engagement expertise, professional media production, and community facilitation capability. This enables us to deliver complex projects requiring both technical excellence and sensitive community relationships.
Youth Engagement & Community Facilitation Our facilitators bring lived experience working with young people aged 11-25, adults requiring supportive learning environments, and isolated community members. They understand how to create psychological safety where authentic participation happens naturally.
Professional Media Production Alongside in-house expertise, we collaborate with experienced filmmakers and media producers bringing broadcast-quality standards to community projects. This means heritage organisations, museums, and public sector clients receive professional-grade content whilst communities experience respectful, accessible recording processes.
Heritage Project Coordination Our coordination capability manages complex multi-stakeholder projects involving heritage organisations, funders, community groups, and technical partners. We maintain professional timelines whilst respecting community pace - balancing efficiency with authenticity.
Methodology Development & Research Grounded in 15 years researching organisational culture and collaborative learning, our founder Roshani Ramass developed the audio-first methodology now validated through heritage sector partnerships and academic recognition. This research foundation ensures continuous improvement through systematic reflection and evidence gathering.
Team Portfolios
We're building team capacity thoughtfully. Whilst we work with skilled professionals across media production and community facilitation, we're establishing sustainable employment structures before public profiling. This protects team members whilst we develop long-term opportunities.
What matters for organisations commissioning our work: We deliver professional outcomes through experienced capability. References available from Museum of London Archaeology, Libraries Unlimited, Steamship Freshspring Trust, and community partners across North Devon.
Our Approach
Audio-First Methodology: We discovered that removing cameras initially creates psychological safety. Most people freeze when being filmed but open up behind microphones. This isn't theory - it's proven through years of community delivery.
Community Co-Production: We work alongside communities, not extracting from them. This means facilitating rather than imposing, respecting community pace over efficiency targets, and ensuring communities own their stories whilst benefiting from professional support.
Evidence-Based Development: Everything we do builds on systematic evaluation and reflection. We document what works, understand why, and refine approaches continuously. This research foundation ensures quality delivery for organisations whilst maintaining community trust.
Continuing Consultation: We don't produce content and disappear. Most projects need ongoing support understanding how to use recordings long-term, adapt content for different platforms, or extend impact beyond initial delivery. We're here for the journey.
Our work focuses on community-led content creation, working with charities and community groups on meaningful and sensitive topics.
We specialise in holding space for communities whilst facilitating learning and bridging cultural and digital gaps, with particular expertise in cross-generational engagement and supporting young people's development.
Our flagship Young Voices In Heritage™ initiative enables cross-generational engagement and combines audio art with heritage documentation, creating skills opportunities and employment pathways whilst preserving community stories.
Our Values
Community Ownership: Stories belong to communities. Our role is facilitating preservation and sharing on their terms.
Authentic Collaboration: Real co-production takes time, respect, and willingness to work at community pace. We don't rush relationships for efficiency.
Professional Standards: Communities deserve broadcast-quality recording, strategic content development, and reliable project delivery. We maintain high standards because stories matter.
Accessible Participation: Everyone should be able to contribute regardless of confidence, technology access, or previous experience. We remove barriers systematically.
Sustainable Impact: Projects should create lasting value beyond funding periods. We build community capability, not dependency.
Get In Touch
Heritage Project Support: roshani@aceholdsthespace.com
Workshop Enquiries: workshops@aceholdsthespace.com
General Contact: assist@aceholdsthespace.com
Location: Based in Barnstaple, serving North Devon and beyond
Registered Address: 1 Enterprise Road, Roundswell, Barnstaple, Devon EX31 3YB
Meet Our Team
We've built a skilled team combining youth engagement expertise, professional media production, and heritage project coordination capability.
Roshani Ramass - Founder & Lead Facilitator
Qualifications & Background:
15 years researching organisational culture and collaborative working
Community radio production experience
Heritage project management and coordination
Methodology development and academic presentation (TAG2025, University of York)
Expertise:
Audio-first methodology development
Heritage co-production facilitation
Community engagement and psychological safety creation
Multi-stakeholder project coordination
Strategic content curation and publishing
Youth Engagement Specialist & Media Facilitator
Qualifications:
Level 3 Youth Work qualification
9+ years professional youth work experience
Extensive SEND population support background
Technical Skills:
Film-making and visual media production
Documentary content creation
Youth engagement facilitation
Accessible learning environment creation
Brings: Professional youth work expertise combined with media production capability, enabling workshops that build both confidence and technical skills through trauma-informed, neurodiverse-friendly approaches.
Professional Filmmaker (Collaborator)
Expertise:
Documentary filmmaking
Visual content creation
Heritage documentation
Broadcast-quality production standards
Brings: Professional production values to community projects, ensuring heritage organisations and public sector clients receive content meeting professional standards whilst maintaining community voice authenticity.
Youth Engagement Peer Support Facilitator - Leah (Age 17)
Background:
Two years frontline youth work experience at Bideford Youth Centre
Currently studying Education and Childcare at college
High-needs youth environment experience
Qualities:
Remarkable insight and empathy with young participants
Calm, confident presence in workshop delivery
Natural ability to create peer-to-peer connection
Understanding of challenges facing isolated young people
Employment Model: Leah receives fair professional wages (not reduced youth rates), recognising her wealth of experience and professional contribution. Demonstrates our commitment to genuine employment pathways, not exploitation.
Ettienne - Young Volunteer Progressing to Employment
Journey:
Started as workshop participant
Progressed to volunteer role supporting A Sense in Nature project
Co-produced content whilst developing original music and audio production
Now transitioning to paid employment role
Demonstrates: Living proof of our participant-to-volunteer-to-employment pathway. Shows that progression opportunities are real, not theoretical.
Why This Team Structure Works
Youth Work Expertise + Media Excellence: Combining professional youth work qualifications with media production skills ensures both psychological safety AND technical quality.
Lived Experience Representation: Leah's recent youth centre experience means young participants see someone who understands their world. She bridges facilitator-participant gap naturally.
Proven Progression Pathway: Ettienne's journey from participant to employment demonstrates our model works - creating genuine opportunities, not just claims.
Heritage Sector Credibility: Professional filmmaker collaboration ensures heritage organisations receive content meeting sector standards whilst our methodology ensures community authenticity.
Flexible Delivery Capability: Team can deliver youth workshops, adult programmes, heritage co-production, and sensitive community documentation across different contexts and needs.
Team Development Approach
We build capacity thoughtfully rather than rapidly expanding. Each team member receives:
Fair professional wages reflecting experience and contribution
Ongoing professional development opportunities
Clear progression pathways
Support developing their own career goals whilst contributing to our mission
This sustainable approach protects team members whilst building long-term organisational capability.
About Roshani Carmen Ramass - Founding Director
As a classically trained musician and BA Business graduate, Roshani brings together creative passion with strategic expertise to empower communities through digital storytelling and content creation.
My background spans music composition and performance, radio broadcasting with Devon Community Radio, and business consultancy across public and charitable sectors. I specialise in helping organisations connect with hard-to-reach communities and amplify diverse voices.
At Ace Holds The Space, I focus on supporting creatives toward personal and economic empowerment while championing collaborative environments that break down barriers. My particular passion lies in creating access and opportunities for neurodiverse individuals and those facing employment challenges.
Through innovative social enterprise approaches, I help communities become their own stars – bridging cultural and digital gaps to ensure every voice shines.
About Leah Walsh - Youth Engagement and Workshop Facilitator
Creative, compassionate, and full of promise, Leah represents the next generation of youth leadership. As our Youth Programmes Facilitator, she plays a key role in delivering dynamic workshops that help young people feel seen, heard, and empowered.
With two years of frontline experience at Bideford Youth Centre—part of Space Youth Services—she brings remarkable insight, resilience, and empathy to her work. Supporting young people in a high-needs environment has shaped her into a formidable practitioner with a calm, confident presence beyond her years.
Currently studying Education and Childcare, she’s building on her hands-on knowledge with a strong academic foundation in inclusive education, safeguarding, and child development.
Also a gifted singer and performer, she channels her creativity and confidence into her facilitation style —connecting with young people through authenticity and shared passion. Wise, talented, and deeply committed to the work, she is a valued and powerful part of our team.
About Ettienne Ridgely - Audio Production Volunteer
Talented, dedicated, and ethically conscious, Ettienne exemplifies our participant-to-professional pathway. Beginning as a homeschooled participant travelling from a remote location, they quickly distinguished themselves through exceptional musical talent and technical development.
A prolific musical performer and composer, Ettienne creates original productions whilst discovering new creative possibilities through our workshops. Our sessions sparked their passion for Foley sound creation - a technique they'd never encountered before joining us. They developed these skills and led Foley activities for the group, demonstrating natural creative leadership.
Through dedicated one-to-one training, Ettienne's editing skills continue to develop. Their original music and jingles contributed significantly to live broadcasts, whilst their unwavering commitment to attending every session reflects remarkable dedication to creative growth.
Currently volunteering on our "A Sense in Nature" podcast project creating original music and audio sweeps, whilst preparing for film scoring studies. Ettienne represents the transformative power of creative opportunity and demonstrates the real employment pathways our programmes create.
Employment Pathway in Action
Etienne's journey demonstrates our commitment to real career development. Starting as a homeschooled participant, they discovered Foley sound creation through our workshops and now volunteer on commissioned projects whilst preparing for film scoring studies in September 2025.
Leah joined us at 17, bringing two years' youth centre experience. We recognised her potential and brought her directly into a paid role with professional wages reflecting her value - no reduced youth rates.
This demonstrates our dual approach: nurturing participants through full progression pathway whilst recognising and developing existing talent into professional roles.
Read about our recent professional recognition | Explore Young Voices In Heritage™
Our Values
Professional Standards: We invest in quality equipment and fair wages because communities deserve professional-level experiences
Community-Led Approach: Participants lead their creative journey - we provide tools and guidance, they create the content
Meaningful Progression: Every programme includes clear pathways from participation through to professional opportunities
Heritage Preservation: Young voices are essential for preserving community stories and creating intergenerational connections
Youth Development: 100% of participants report increased social connections and confidence. Home-schooled and isolated young people gain peer interaction opportunities through our accessible workshop approach.
Heritage Preservation: 36+ maritime heritage recordings preserving irreplaceable local knowledge. Community members previously "unrecordable" through traditional methods document their stories through our audio-first approach.
Employment Creation: Proven participant-to-professional pathway. Young people progress from workshops to volunteer roles to paid employment, with fair professional wages reflecting their value.
Professional Recognition: Museum of London Archaeology partnership validates our methodology. Heritage sector professionals describe our approach as enabling stories traditional methods miss.
Community Connection: Through Alignment Creation Enterprises gatherings, we create spaces for creatives, freelancers, and community groups to connect, collaborate, and access IP protection education.
What Makes our Approach Different
Our Social Impact - Measurable Outcomes
Built on 15 years researching how people learn and work together, our audio-first methodology creates psychological safety that enables authentic storytelling. We discovered that removing the camera first helps people open up - they explore stories more freely when they're not being watched.
This isn't just theory. Museum of London Archaeology chose our young participants to document their heritage event, validating that communities documenting their own stories - with professional support - creates more authentic outcomes than traditional extraction approaches.
We work at community pace, not efficiency targets. Heritage stories emerge when people feel genuinely heard, not interrogated. This patient approach, combined with professional production standards, delivers outcomes that serve both community voice and organisational needs.
Our expertise spans handling complex societal topics with sensitivity, valuing diversity, and supporting different needs. We draw from direct life experience to improve communication and understanding between communities and organisations.
Working primarily with public sector organisations, charities, and community groups, our founder's focused study in organisational culture helps us understand the particular challenges facing non-profits and high social impact organisations. We continuously enhance our services with these organisations in mind, listening to feedback and tailoring approaches to suit often highly varied and complex organisational needs.
Our Roots
Established in February 2022, Ace Holds The Space began with a vision to empower diverse community voices through media and creative expression. During lockdown, we launched an online programme featuring music and visuals to boost wellbeing, which sparked our exploration of how community podcasts support healing and connection.
This foundation quickly evolved beyond wellbeing content. With support from Bideford Bridge Trust and Cosmic's Digital Boost programme*, we expanded our digital presence whilst participating in local events promoting wellness and creating community content.
Equipment grants and digital training enabled us to develop professional production services giving communities a platform and voice. This journey shaped our core mission: "Bridging The Cultural and Digital Gaps in Wellbeing Provision."
In 2023, we launched podcasting and media creation services for public sector organisations and charities. The Steamship Freshspring Trust collaboration (producing 36+ maritime heritage recordings) taught us how to adapt facilitation for authentic intergenerational storytelling - learning that would prove essential for future heritage work.
By June 2024, we established Alignment Creation Enterprises—our social enterprise arm hosting gatherings that support economic empowerment for creatives, funded by North Devon Flourishing Culture grant. Our dual structure enables targeted impact: Ace Holds The Space delivers professional media services whilst Alignment Creation Enterprises focuses on community initiatives creating social change.
July 2024 marked our partnership with Libraries Unlimited, leading to our current Young Voices in Heritage™ methodology and professional sector recognition.
Built on 15 years researching how people learn and work together, applied through direct community practice since 2022, we've grown from experimental wellbeing podcasts to recognised heritage co-production capability with proven community impact.
*While featured on Cosmic's site, we are not a CIC. Our social impact work operates through our separate Social Enterprise (recognised by Companies House as a Company Limited by Guarantee).
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OUR FIRST EVER PUBLIC PODCASTING EXPERIMENT!
'FLIP THE SCRIPT'
Our first ever (very humble) ‘Public Podcasting for Wellbeing’ experiment!
Although our first public recording wasn't up to our standards due to recording in noisy conditions, we were able to demonstrate its positive impact on people's well-being and now it has formed the foundation for our developing Methodologies!.
A positive approach to tackling future challenges with resilience and the power of positive thinking. We celebrate and prioritise what we already have instead of dwelling on what we lack. Join us as we focus on finding solutions together in our Flip the Script Podcast!
Our journey into community podcasting began on 08/10/22. In 2022, we offered online services to help people, especially young ones, cope with the effects of the Covid lockdown. We wanted to find ways to connect with others during this difficult time.
After learning about the social benefits of podcasting in communities, TTVS (Torrington and Torridge Voluntary Services) asked us to set up a booth promoting well-being at the Torrington Town Hall Cost of Living (COL) Fayre in North Devon