Broadening Horizons

Inspire Youth Zone Inspire Youth Zone, Chorley, Lancashire

Check out “Broadening Horizons” with Inspire! This event is a chance to see what’s out there. There’ll be different companies running fun, hands-on workshops where you can try new things, […]

Business Breakfast

Inspire Youth Zone Inspire Youth Zone, Chorley, Lancashire

Thursday 20th March - Business Breakfast Join us for lots of networking, a bacon butty and an inspirational talk with our yet to be announced speaker... we promise it could […]

Seeing is Believing

Inspire Youth Zone Inspire Youth Zone, Chorley, Lancashire

Thursday 3rd April - Seeing is Believing You haven’t experienced Inspire until you’ve seen it filled with young people. Our Junior sessions are always high energy and buzzing so it […]

Chorley 10k

Inspire Youth Zone Inspire Youth Zone, Chorley, Lancashire

Sunday 4th May - Chorley 10k Grab your trainers and lets paint the town green with a sea of Inspire runners raising funds to give young people a brighter future! […]

Business Breakfast

Inspire Youth Zone Inspire Youth Zone, Chorley, Lancashire

Thursday 5th June - Business Breakfast Topic is still TBC on this one but what we do know is there will be lots of networking, some inspirational spiel and of […]

Inspire’s Golf Day

Friday 27th June - Inspire’s Golf Day - Team of 4 - £575 For the third year, we’ll be back at the wonderful Shaw Hill for our iconic Golf Day. […]

Seeing is Believing

Inspire Youth Zone Inspire Youth Zone, Chorley, Lancashire

Thursday 3rd July - Seeing is Believing You haven’t experienced Inspire until you’ve seen it filled with young people. Our Junior sessions are always high energy and buzzing so it […]

Inspire’s Green Tie Ball

Shaw Hill Hotel Shaw Hill Golf Club

Friday 19th September - Inspire’s Green Tie Ball Our biggest fundraiser of the year is back and promises to be bigger than ever! To book your table or find out […]

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