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Arts, Culture and Heritage "Where Your Community - Become It's Own Stars" πŸ’«
New Youth Page - YCM Devon https://www.aceholdsthespace.com/youthcreativemedia
Media Production and Community Connections

Take a break β˜•We work with young people across Devon helping them connect through creative media, audio, video and digit...
20/08/2026

Take a break β˜•
We work with young people across Devon helping them connect through creative media, audio, video and digital production.

This year a lot of organisations have got in touch asking about what we do, and it's become clear that plenty of them would like to run something similar themselves but hit the same walls.

πŸ“Ή Equipment that dates.
πŸŽ›οΈ Nobody on the team who feels confident with the tech.
πŸ“‹ The rules around publishing young people's work.

Sound familiar?

So rather than guess at what would help, we're asking. No name required.
5 questions, 3 minutes, and a little light music if you fancy switching it on 🎧
Access form here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/Vuqehw1X6F

✨ Paul Curtis took this at Fremington Quay a few nights ago. The Milky Way over the old station roof, and a shooting sta...
14/08/2026

✨ Paul Curtis took this at Fremington Quay a few nights ago. The Milky Way over the old station roof, and a shooting star coming in above it. β˜„οΈ

Very few places this close to Barnstaple stay dark enough to see that. Once the cafe shuts and the Trail empties, there is almost nothing between the Quay and the sky.

Plenty has been happening underneath it. πŸ‘‡

The Heritage Centre has three touchscreens in now, one for each theme.

🏺 Pottery follows Fremington clay from the pits at Combrew to the honey-coloured slipware North Devon is still known for, and on to the potters carrying it today.

βš“ Maritime holds the ships one by one, the coal coming in and the ball clay going out, back when this was the busiest port by tonnage between Bristol and Land's End.

πŸš‚ Railway runs the line from the horse-drawn coal service of 1848 through to the last trains in 1982, and you are standing in the old station while you look at it.

🎧 There is an audio station too, with handsets and a hearing loop, where you can sit and listen to people who were there. Pete Harman was kept away from the Quay as a boy and watched the ships from his bedroom window instead, wondering where on earth they were going. At twelve, a grocery delivery got him aboard a Dutch coaster bound for Amsterdam, and that was that. He bought a Kodak πŸ“· and started photographing every ship that came in. Harry Juniper started with clay from his father's fields in 1946, rolling marbles and baking them in the kitchen fire, and has made harvest jugs ever since.

🀫 We have been working alongside the volunteer committee on all of this for coming up to two years, on the design, the content and the recordings. Not much has been said about it publicly until now, mostly because we were busy doing it. Time to change that.

πŸ’‘ And there is more being drawn. Design work is under way for something beyond screens and photographs, using light and sound to put you inside the Quay back in the day. Steam gathering and lifting. The estuary moving. Voices carrying the way they did when there were ships alongside.

The whole story is on our new page, including what is coming.
πŸ‘‰ aceholdsthespace.com/fremingtonquayheritage

β˜• The centre is open by day, on the Tarka Trail between Barnstaple and Instow, the popular Fremington Quay Cafe right there too.

Fremington Quay Heritage Centre is run entirely by volunteersπŸ’š



Photograph courtesy of Paul Curtis.

Some people don't realise the complete picture that drives us, and we feel it's now time to reveal ourselves fully.One o...
12/08/2026

Some people don't realise the complete picture that drives us, and we feel it's now time to reveal ourselves fully.

One of the things that drives us is our desire to help organisations. We have been focusing on young people, cultural representation and heritage exhibit work however, what some don't know is that our foundation was built to support organisations too, charities and community groups among them.

That is one of the reasons we have a social enterprise arm, Alignment Creation Enterprises. Its initials are where our name came from, and Ace Holds The Space was the original tagline before it became a community co-production company.

We are now at the point where we are ready to start helping organisations, and it is coming from you.
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We are launching two new services this month, YCM Go and OrgHarmonics.

After so many enquiries from youth providers and other public sector organisations, councils and charities across Devon, we have decided to make our Youth Creative Media work more accessible and to reach more young people.

We set it up to help break isolation using technology, and to funnel those activities into healthy pursuits for young people, reconnecting them to their communities and to themselves. What they gain along the way is confidence, articulation and the ability to collaborate. And those things travel well beyond the media skills.

We are only one team. We also understand how challenging it is to navigate technology-based provision, to keep equipment current, and to work through the intricacies of media publishing rules, particularly when working with vulnerable communities.

We have been doing this since 2022, and growing YCM since 2024. We can help organisations navigate that terrain, connect powerfully with their young people, and support something they actually want to do, safely and with impact.

Having a social enterprise ourselves, we also understand the complexities of funding cycles, and we have built a flexible model to accommodate that.

Alongside this we are launching OrgHarmonics, something our founder Roshani has been developing since 2010 through study and through working with a range of organisations. It is a system that supports organisations and community groups to stay healthy, a nine stage process, launching alongside YCM Go.

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YCM Go takes the form of training for your staff, supervision, materials, kit and consultation. OrgHarmonics is delivered through in person workshops. Both travel.

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If you would like to learn more, please get in touch.
[email protected]

We know there are many who are curious about what makes Ace Holds The Space tick.

You can discover the methodology behind our work across a wide section of the community, not just young people, and the ethos and values behind it. We will be creating a membership hub before long, so we can support connection in communities further and grow our services in a way that is partly informed by you.

Our work in cultural and heritage community media production, exhibit design and installation continues, providing avenues for employment and community economic empowerment, nurturing our participant to volunteer to employment pathway for young people and offering ongoing support for creative freelancers across Devon.

Sharing the love πŸ’—

πŸŽ™οΈ They walked in not knowing the set up of advanced recording equipment. Two months later they were interviewing the to...
06/08/2026

πŸŽ™οΈ They walked in not knowing the set up of advanced recording equipment. Two months later they were interviewing the town.

The workshops are where this project was brought to life.

Young people came in over the winter to learn the equipment. πŸ“· Photography. πŸŽ₯ Video. 🎧 Audio. How to get a clean recording in a community setting.

By spring? They were running it. Interviewing. Engineering the sound. Sitting across the table from people who have known that market their whole lives.

14 contributors captured and recorded. Not in a studio. In halls, in community rooms, out in the market with all the noise of the place going on around them. πŸ›οΈ

And the questions? Many of them theirs.

Most of the photography and video you have seen from this project is the cohort's own work. Rose, 17, shot the bulk of it alongside Paul Curtis. One of the younger ones, aged 14, worked on the co-design of the exhibit space itself πŸ‘

They shaped the themes and questions. What the town told them is what went up on the wall.
11 sessions of workshops. 3 community recording days. Then months of editing, research and content work before anything reached the wall.

That is what Young Voices in Heritageβ„’ is built for. Get the conditions right, put professional kit in their hands, and trust them with it. ✨

So what is Youth Creative Media (YCM Devon)? 🎬

It is our youth media provision, and it is where all of this comes from. Young people aged 10 to 25 working with proper kit: cameras, microphones, editing software, the same tools any working media team uses. The real thing.

It runs two ways.
🎨 YCM Socials are relaxed drop-in sessions, no commitment, come and try something.
πŸŽ₯ YCM Projects are structured programmes that run over months and produce real, finished work with the young people's names on it.

Young Voices in Heritageβ„’ was developed within that wider body of work.

Every town has stories sat in people's heads that nobody has written down. If yours does, come and have a conversation about what might be possible. β˜•
πŸ“§ [email protected]
πŸ”— aceholdsthespace.com/southmoltonheritage

South Molton Pannier Market Heritage Project, commissioned by South Molton Town Council and funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. 🎟️

Ace Holds The Space Group - Arts, Culture and Heritage πŸŽ¨πŸ“»πŸ›οΈ

09/07/2026

Woo! We did it !πŸŽ‰

In the last hour – we managed to complete the display – however, it still shone! 🌟

What the community and young people started in January / February - finally came together to mark the close of the South Molton Pannier Market Heritage Project.

Recording. Designing. Photography. Videography. Heritage Research – and finally the Exhibit πŸ’« 6 months of work by community contributors and young people aged 11 to 25 was there for the whole town to see and hear πŸŽ™οΈ

Activities on the day - a History Tour, the Community Charter Song sung by South Molton Singers Choir, the Town Band, Arts Workshops, Circus Skills, a Time Capsule workshop, as well as costume and regalia.

Our Audios were the highlight of the exhibit – jingles made from the South Molton Choir band, real live sounds of the market and voices of the Market Traders – a precious archive of real Devon Life and celebrating the prosperity and uniqueness of this Special Market.

Thanks to South Molton Town Council, South Molton Pannier Market, South Molton Museum and a big thankyou to the National Lottery Players.

Young Voices in Heritageβ„’ Media Mix Production Credits: By Ned Ruddick

Videography by Paul Curtis.

Thanks to all our young contributors, heritage storytellers and all the Volunteers especially the Volunteer parents.



Join our newly launched Youtube Channel 🌞✨

Quiet on here lately, and there is a reason. We have been flat out.Here is what the South Molton Pannier Market Heritage...
19/06/2026

Quiet on here lately, and there is a reason. We have been flat out.
Here is what the South Molton Pannier Market Heritage Project has produced since February:

πŸŽ™οΈ Fourteen voices recorded across the town's oldest rooms, the Assembly Rooms, the Courthouse and the Mayor's Parlour

πŸ“… Five recording days, with young people on the kit throughout

🎧 Six listening mixes built for the exhibit, five finished and the sixth landing soon

πŸ‘‹ Eleven workshops with young people aged 11 to 25

πŸ“Έ More than 130 photographs logged, with workshop and market footage still being counted

πŸ—‚οΈ More than twenty heritage items curated and catalogued

🎡 The Community Charter Song recorded with the South Molton Singers, and the sounds of the market itself woven through

Young people have been on the kit, the cameras, the recordings as well as the interviewing - from the first session to the last. All of it is heading into a heritage exhibit at the Pannier Market, with one final recording, a 97 year old sharing her childhood memories of the market.

Come and see it all. Celebration Day, Saturday 4 July, South Molton Pannier Market and share the precious moments on the day with us along with our Team, our Volunteers and the Young People that made it happen - we are super proud of all of them! ✨✨✨

Big Thankyou to Adam Nichols, Pannier Market Manager for this lovely poster and South Molton Town Council.

Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Players.

04/05/2026

🎬 Our Workshop Journey in South Molton πŸ’›

As our Youth Creative Media (YCM Devon) workshop journey in South Molton comes to a close this week, we wanted to share some of the highlights with you!

Young people getting to know each other. Confidence growing session by session. Friendships forming around microphones, cameras and shared experiences β˜•

You’ll also catch glimpses of the cohort taking their skills out into the Pannier Market, meeting traders and recording their stories.
And a peek at the Victorian roof restoration underway - the wider project our work sits within πŸ›οΈ

✨ Productions are now underway, and the exhibit goes up in the Pannier Market at the end of June.
πŸ“… Save the date - Saturday 4th JulyCelebration Day at South Molton Pannier Market πŸŽ‰Theatre, vintage costume, the exhibit unveiled, and a celebration of the cultural pride and heritage of the South Molton community.

πŸ† There will also be a special award ceremony for our young people, with certificates presented, alongside thanks to key contributors. This will happen once the exhibit is in place.πŸ’›

With thanks to: The National Lottery Heritage Fund South Molton Town Council and South Molton Pannier Market

Your stories. Your market. Your culture.

Ace Holds The Space Group - Arts, Culture and Heritage πŸŽ¨πŸ“»πŸ›οΈ

Photo/Video credits: Paul Curtis (Youth Engagement and Visual Media Facilitator and Rose Leaver (youth participant)

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