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Inspire Youth Zone opened it’s doors to the public and became a venue for Chorley Live 2018 for the first time this October.

Hundreds of young people and members of the public flocked to Inspire to see the incredible music and dance on offer, with over 800 people coming through the doors over the weekend.

With more than 20 acts performing at Inspire alone, Chorley Live was jam packed with action at the Youth Zone including an unexpected, special appearance from Blue Peter and CBBC star, Barney Harwood.

Barney performed alongside Maisie Leek who had been initially scheduled as a soloist but surprised the audience with a beautiful duet performance alongside Harwood who switched from piano to guitar seamlessly throughout.

“Our young people were so excited to see Barney in their space here at Inspire, especially after so many of them had performed so wonderfully themselves.” Youth Work Manager, Ryan Powell explained.

“The whole weekend was amazing and we’d like to thank the young people that worked so hard on their performances. All that work was worthwhile, because you were all sensational!”

The Inspire Youth Zone building was completely open on Friday, with Saturday seeing certain restrictions in place to maintain the Senior member’s session normally scheduled. Next year, Inspire hope to open the entire building to the public across the whole weekend.

If you’re not yet a member but would love to sign up, you can buy an annual membership today, available through this link here: https://inspireyouthzone.org/new-member/

 

Chorley Live 2018 

 

 

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MATTHEW HIRST

Matt Hirst is the CEO of leading energy technology provider ESG with over 700 staff and operations in the USA, Canada and the UK. ESG’s UK headquarters are based in Chorley, Lancashire.

 

ESG empowers global leaders in energy to deliver on the future promise of energy through its SAAS solutions for Customer and Market Data Management and Smart Metering. Matt has a background in Sales and Marketing and led a MBO of UK company Utiligroup in 2014 before it was acquired by ESG in 2017 and has been with the business for 24 years. Matt won an EY Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2016 as well as being a judge in 2018 and in 2017 his team was awarded the UK Regional and National Mid Market Management Team of the Year awards by the BVCA. Matt holds a BSc (Hons) degree from The University of Salford and a MBA from Lancaster University.

Ryan powell

head of operations

Hi, I’m Ryan and I’m the Head of Operations at Inspire Youth Zone.

Email: ryan.powell@inspireyouthzone.org

Inspire Youth Zone