This Christmas, we want to raise £8,000 to make that possible for some of the children, young people and families who need Inspire most.
Make Christmas Morning Magical
Make sure those who need it will have something special to unwrap on Christmas morning – with thoughtful gifts chosen by the youth workers who know them best.
The Gift of Choice
Give some of our older members the freedom to choose something they’ll genuinely love, want or need this Christmas, with gift vouchers that put the choice in their hands.
Take a group of young people on a Christmas shopping trip,
giving them a budget and the dignity and excitement of choosing their own things, something some have never had the opportunity to do.
Make sure every member of the 20 families attending our Family Christmas Dinner
has something from Santa, meaning around 80+ children and family members will receive gifts.
Put together Christmas packages for 20 young people aged 17–20 living in supported accommodation,
including new pyjamas, toiletries and other essentials.
Provide additional
Christmas support
for children with SEND, teenagers and young people whose circumstances mean they need us that little bit more.
Provide a Christmas dinner for more than 100 people
who attend Inspire Invites, our weekly community session for those age 25+, so they have somewhere to celebrate, socialise and belong this Christmas.
Thanks to an incredible £3,000 sponsorship from ABS, we’re bringing 20 of the families we support together for a very special Family Christmas Dinner.
Our youth workers know the children and young people who need us. We know the families we’re supporting. We know the young adults living independently who could use a little extra help. And we know how many people will be coming through our doors this Christmas.
We’ve worked out what it will take. We still need another £5,000. So that’s what we’re going to raise.
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.
Hi, I’m Ryan and I’m the Head of Operations at Inspire Youth Zone.
Email: ryan.powell@inspireyouthzone.org