In Sheffield, a series of focus groups with 11-18-year-olds shaped understanding of what it is like growing up multilingual with Chinese heritage, right here in Sheffield. Children and young people spoke of the importance of having their language and identity recognised in formal contexts, such as school, and how much they valued school's and the city's efforts to help celebrate festivals such as Chinese New Year. Many of the young people continue learning Chinese at heritage language school, and communicating with family members was one of the core reasons for maintaining the heritage language. The children and young people included both those born in the UK, and recent arrivals. While many were confident they would maintain their language skills all their lives, some, especially those at the older end of the spectrum, acknowledged that language loss was setting in.