My cultural excursion continues this morning as I go to the house of a local woman who received an honour in the New Years list. I wrote to her to congratulate her and she invited me to learn more of what she does.

It was a really heartwarming story of success. She leads on a current pilot which is delivering in the seven pilot areas the opportunity to learn an instrument to every child in the school undertaking the pilots. It’s a long, complicated story – but suffice to say that children who would not have a flying whatsit at an instrument are now getting that chance. And I believe this is a wonderful project and that exposure in whatever way to such learning be it classical violin or African drums – will change that child’s horizons.