Inspire Youth Zone’s Golf Day 2019

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] On Thursday 22nd August 2019, Inspire Youth Zone will be hosting its annual charity golf day to raise funds for the young persons service as it enters its second year of operation. The event, hosted at Shaw Hill Golf Club, will consist of a shotgun start at 1pm […]

Inspire turns 1 this month!

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] INSPIRE, Chorley Youth Zone will mark one year since their official opening in 2018 on Sunday 5th May with an open party for Chorley and all of its local young people, residents and members of the community. Since opening, the Youth Zone has changed the lives of thousands […]

Young people inspired to ‘pick’ a better future

[column width=”2/3″ title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] A group of young people in Chorley have come together in an attempt to combat litter in the UK by organising their own litter-picking task force. The youngsters who met at Inspire Youth Zone worked with staff to arrange the litter-pick, contacting Chorley Council who provided bin liners and […]

Chorley’s largest car retailer agrees to sponsor Youth Zone’s sports kits

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] INSPIRE, Chorley Youth Zone has found a sponsor for their sports kits in the form of local car dealership, Chorley Group. The automotive retailer is already heavily involved with Inspire after they signed up as Founder Patrons of the charity before their opening in May 2018, however the […]

Manchester Students Go Wild for Inspiring Charity

[column width=”3/5″ title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] STUDENTS and staff from the University of Manchester hosted a wild event to raise funds for a youth charity that gives the young people of Chorley something to do, somewhere to go and someone to talk to. Chorley-born zoologist, Andrew Gray – who also doubles as a teacher at […]

Chorley Charity cooks up an inspiring day for local business

[column width=”3/5″ title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Local Youth Zone welcomes a number of local businesses to their second Business Breakfast event this month to network, enjoy a free cooked breakfast and hear from an inspirational guest speaker. Inspire Youth Zone is a world-class facility for young people that gives them somewhere to go, something to […]

Shaw Hill Supports Youth Zone in Inspiring Fashion

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Lady Captain of Shaw Hill Golf & Spa Resort, Lesley Penketh, organised and hosted a fashion show at the golf club based in Whittle le Woods, Chorley in support of Inspire Youth Zone. Members of the golf club as well as supporters of Inspire flocked to the event […]

Youth Zone Members Inspired to 1st Place at Computer Coding Competition

[column width=”2/3″ title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] FOUR Junior members of Inspire Youth Zone entered their small team into the Chorley Hack competition earlier this month, hosted by Chorley Council, winning their group and each taking home a prized tech bundle. Chorley Hack is a free coding competition for 9-13 year olds in Chorley which saw […]

Youth Zone forges links with Magpies

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] CHORLEY-based journalist and author David Birtill, who wrote for national and regional newspapers before his appointment as press officer for the Professional Golf Association in England and Wales, made his debut as a budding writer when he reported on a reserve team match at Victory Park as a […]

Meet Chorley’s next generation of entrepreneurs

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] One of the UK’s youngest companies bags top prize at Manchester Trade Fair. A group of Chorley’s brightest young people entered their small team into the Young Enterprise programme in October 2018 and finally launched their first product earlier this month. Young Enterprise is the UK’s leading enterprise […]

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

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