The stories we tend to hear are fond of heroes. Our novels, our cinema, our history and our news are all dominated by them.

But, what might the social consequences be for this individualised approach to storytelling, who might be hidden in the hero’s large shadow, and what kind of stories get left behind?

Like many neighbourhoods across the UK, Shieldfield is home to many people whose lives differ considerably.

In recent years many different people have been working together to both imagine and create initiatives that benefit each other in direct ways.

These include community gardening projects, a volunteer-run community café, and a youth programme shaped by the young people who live here.

- Rebecca Solnit, When the hero becomes the problem (2019)

To tell a story about the many people actively engaged in this activity, diverse in age, ethnicity, gender, religion, social and economic status, sexual orientation, viewpoint, background, language and lived experience, would of course be complicated.

For all of the activity here in Shieldfield there is no singular spokesperson, no figurehead, no hero, and as such it’s a messy story that remains difficult to tell.

But what if we tried?