Imagine that you’ve lived your adolescence in the care system and, now entering young adulthood, you’ve been spat out into the real world where staff don’t turn up to your supported accommodation and your ‘corporate parent’ (local authority) deems you magically fit for independence as soon as you turn 18.

“Youth work is really under resourced in this area and young people don't have the opportunities to access youth work that they would in a more urban area,” said Elizabeth, who leads the Intergenerational Mission Team at the Diocese of Hereford.

She told me that exclamation by friends at seeing “the beautiful lambs!” when she’s at uni in Aberystwyth twists her gut, as behind the wagging tails are weeks of no sleep as farmers “trade their life for theirs” in the gruelling period of lambing.

They took action because they feel that not enough is being done to educate and support young people about the issue of street safety.

Chloe is turning her love for experimenting with make-up into plans to be a professional Make Up Artist.

In this piece of creative writing Katy explores identify, wellbeing and winter. Her response to living in rural north Herefordshire is one of several pieces being created by young people in winter/spring 2022.

15-year-old Martha shares her lockdown drawings - illustrations that have helped her secure a place on a Royal Acamedy art scheme for young people.

But, in a utopian Wigmore, it would be amazing to have regular buses that start running from 7am

I am just loving how different groups of people define different places; it is just fascinating.

They had good reason to be less jubilant about the city’s sketchy transport connections, below-average wages, arguable geographical isolation and the youth brain drain.

I felt a comforting sense of community but that feeling was soon whisked away a few days later.

The stigma that is built around sex from such an early age paints the topic as something to hide, be embarrassed by and not share.

This often results in people who are shaped more by their inherited values and traditions than by the teachings of the modern world.

I was just a child and lacked the depth of knowledge or understanding of racism.

"But you don't look sick. You're too young to be sick.”

I was arrested at the hospital and had to spend 24 hours in a cold hard police cell.

I am lucky enough to have a great support network of creative people and mentors around me.

Inevitably, rural isolation has only increased during the lockdowns.

In an increasingly secular society, many may well question the relevance of a cathedral and its music if they don’t believe in a God.

Initially, after coming face to face with the P.O.V. survey’s raw results, I had somewhat of a minor breakdown.