Portfolio

Our Journey in Community Media

Built on 15 years researching how people collaborate and work together, our methodology emerged through direct community practice since 2022. Each project taught us something crucial about creating psychological safety, honouring community voice, and producing content that genuinely serves both participants and organisations.

Flip The Script Wellbeing Podcast (October 2022)

Professional Collaboration: Torrington and Torridge Voluntary Services

Our first public podcasting experiment addressing post-pandemic isolation. Recording conditions weren't ideal, but something important happened - people felt safe enough to share their struggles. They heard each other's stories and realised they weren't alone with their fears about the cost-of-living crisis.

This taught us that holding space for difficult conversations requires more than equipment - it requires creating genuine psychological safety. When people feel truly heard, when they realise others understand their experience, wellbeing shifts. This project established our foundation.

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Sunrise Diversity - Disability & Inclusion Content (2023 onwards)

Partnership: Sunrise Diversity CIC

Working with Sunrise Diversity required particular cultural sensitivity and awareness of diverse communication needs. We created diverse media tackling sensitive topics including domestic abuse and embracing equity. Starting with podcasts, we then expanded reach by platforming audio onto visual media for increased accessibility, including work on disability awareness education. Content creation honoured different cultural communication styles throughout.

This project pushed us into video production whilst maintaining the same core principles - proving how visual storytelling could complement our audio approaches without losing the person-centred methodology that makes the work effective.

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Steamship Freshspring Trust Maritime Heritage (2023-2024)

Partnership: Steamship Freshspring Trust

36+ maritime heritage recordings working with staff, visitors and older maritime community members. This project taught us about adapting facilitation to honour each person's natural communication style whilst capturing content serving multiple purposes. Older maritime community members tell long, reflective stories in their own rhythm. We observed the essential interviewing skill of knowing when to stay quiet and let people speak how they naturally communicate, rather than steering them toward predetermined formats.

What emerged was richer than we could have shaped - the content continues serving the community across social media, streaming platforms, and their own channels. We provide ongoing consultation and publishing support to help them strategically repurpose and adapt this material, extending its life and impact far beyond the original recordings.

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Soundart 102.5 FM - Everybody Counts Educational Partnership (2023-2024)

Partnership: Soundart 102.5 FM, Skills for Life, Learn Devon

Working with licensed community radio, we were part of programming, scheduling and broadcasting the series, as well as composing and producing the memorable 'Everybody Counts' jingle. The programme was guided and evaluated by Devon County Council, who recognised it as great success. Separately, we supported workshops at Ashburton Arts Centre, documenting how children and community could learn fractions through making shadow puppets and staging their own shows.

This taught us that professional broadcasting standards and community accessibility aren't mutually exclusive - you can have both.

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Bideford Culture Heritage Arts Group - Animated Marketing (2023-2024)

Partnership: Bideford Culture Heritage Arts Group

This demonstrates our grassroots approach - we don't just work with communities, we become part of them. As members of Bideford Culture Heritage Arts Group, we muck in, supporting volunteer-led community organising. Rather than creating marketing content FOR the group, we facilitated their vision and brought it to life visually through animation. The content reflected their values because it emerged from genuine collaboration, not imposed templates. The group's first public event at Bideford Fair showcased how important arts, culture and heritage are to community wellbeing.

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River Radio Initiative - AWE (2024)

Partnership: Art Work Exeter

This weekend-long broadcasting event showed our 'holding space' approach creating professional-quality radio content whilst remaining completely inclusive. We engaged and recorded people's voices creating 10 bespoke jingles from script - transforming community contributions into professional broadcast content in real-time. We mentored an acapella band and narrators to deliver their best quality productions.

Participants gained valuable radio broadcasting experience through River Radio's funding, proving that community content and professional standards aren't mutually exclusive - you can have both quality and accessibility.

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Young Voices In Heritage™ (November 2024 - June 2025)

Professional Collaboration: Libraries Unlimited with Museum of London Archaeology Participation

Professional validation through Museum of London Archaeology. Young participants documented heritage events, demonstrating that communities documenting their own stories - with professional support - creates more authentic outcomes than traditional extraction approaches. MOLA described young people as "the crucial key component that made the event so interesting."

Our audio-first methodology eliminated performance anxiety, enabling young people to progress from tentative beginners to confident heritage documentarians. Evaluation shows 100% confidence improvement, with particularly transformative impact for home-schooled and isolated young people.

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A Sense in Nature Environmental Wellbeing (2024-2025)

Supported by: Libraries Connected, National Trust, North Devon UNESCO Biosphere

Supporting women of colour to access nature and tackle loneliness in North Devon. The walks in nature were truly intimate spaces - we were entrusted, because of our track record, to hold space for these women and treat every recording with integrity.

This demonstrated our technical capabilities in reaching specific community groups with sensitive documentation needs whilst providing work experience for a young volunteer co-producing content before starting college - demonstrating our participant-to-volunteer-to-collaborator progression pathway.

Participant feedback: "Being part of this project has brought me to find my tribe, women of colour with similar understandings of culture. I love North Devon with all its beauty but have never really felt that I fit in until I met the Sense in Nature ladies."