Meet Our Team
We've built a skilled team combining youth engagement expertise, professional media production, youth work, heritage project engagement and coordination, and evaluation capability. Every team member brings unique strengths whilst sharing our commitment to creating genuine opportunities for young people and communities.
From founding director to young facilitators, our team spans diverse experience levels - and that's intentional. One of our team members started as a participant in our Youth Creative Media (YCM Devon) programme, progressing from participant to volunteer to employment.
Real progression pathways, demonstrated through our own team.
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 Paul Curtis - Youth Engagement Specialist & Media Facilitator
Experienced, compassionate, and deeply committed to young people's development, Paul brings 9+ years of professional youth work expertise combined with creative media production skills - a rare and valuable combination.
With Level 3 Youth Work qualifications and extensive experience supporting SEND populations, Paul understands how to create environments where young people feel genuinely safe to explore, create, and grow. His trauma-informed, neurodiverse-friendly approach means workshops meet participants where they are, not where we think they should be.
As a skilled filmmaker and visual media producer, Paul bridges the gap between youth work principles and technical excellence. He knows that building confidence matters as much as building skills - and that authentic creative expression requires both psychological safety and professional-quality tools.
Paul's calm presence and natural ability to connect with young people across different needs and backgrounds makes him an essential part of our team. Whether supporting a first-time podcaster finding their voice or helping a group bring their creative vision to life, he ensures every participant feels valued and capable.
His extensive SEND background and deep understanding of how different young people learn and communicate enables our workshops to be genuinely inclusive - not just accessible in theory, but welcoming in practice.
About Ettienne Ridgely - Audio Production and Workshop Facilitation
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.
On completion of the workshops, Ettienne volunteered on the "A Sense in Nature" commissioned podcast project creating original music and audio sweeps, whilst preparing for film scoring studies. Now aged 16, Ettienne is a paid member of our team, recently facilitating the podcasting station at our Youth Creative Media Social event in January 2026. They independently led technical support and administration duties whilst creating safe space for young participants to explore audio production - demonstrating the transformative power of creative opportunity and the real employment pathways our programmes create.
About Victoria Carr - Financial Administration & Evaluation Assistant
Analytical, dedicated, and remarkably insightful, Victoria has recently joined our team as a volunteer supporting our administration.
What quickly became clear was Victoria's natural gift for turning complex information into clarity. Whilst helping with our first Youth Creative Media Social event in January 2026, her exceptional analytical capability revealed itself - transforming event data into genuine insights that strengthen how we plan and deliver our work.
Victoria's visual thinking approach creates diagrams and charts that don't just present information, they tell stories. Her careful analysis helps us understand how people engage with different activities, what combinations of creative media interest participants, and where opportunities for improvement exist.
But Victoria's real strength is her ability to find meaning in data. She doesn't just track numbers; she understands what they reveal about participant experience, barriers to engagement, and how we can do better. This insight generation is already shaping our programme development.
Working across financial administration and evaluation support, Victoria brings analytical rigour to both budget management and impact measurement - essential capabilities for organisations operating dual entity structures whilst demonstrating social impact.
Quiet, thorough, and brilliantly capable, Victoria's contributions are already making a real difference to our organisational development.
Professional Collaborators
We work alongside skilled professionals who bring specialist expertise to our projects:
Jess Pearson - Professional Filmmaker: Documentary filmmaking and visual content creation, bringing broadcast-quality production standards to community projects whilst maintaining community voice authenticity.
Emma Johnson - Animation Specialist: Stop motion animation expertise with particular experience working with neurodivergent participants, creating accessible creative exploration opportunities.
Andrew Holland - Digital Accessibility Consultant: Ensuring digital tools and activities are accessible to all participants, particularly supporting SEND-inclusive provision.
Why This Team Structure Works
Our team combines professional youth work qualifications with media production excellence, lived experience representation through young facilitators, proven progression pathways (participant to volunteer to employment), and evaluation rigor that demonstrates our impact. This enables us to deliver complex projects requiring both technical excellence and sensitive community relationships - whilst creating genuine opportunities for the young people we work with.
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