INSPIRE EATS

With many families struggling with the rising living costs and having to choose between heating and eating – Inspire Youth Zone has developed a social action campaign in partnership with Cadent Gas. Our young people to help build awareness across the UK of the cost-saving and health benefits of slow cooking. 

Each month Inspire partnered up with a ‘business food partner’ to help us find the nation’s favorite slow cooker recipe. When it comes to cooking your favourite dishes, it doesn’t get much better than using a slow cooker. A slow cooker saves you time, it’s easy to use and most importantly slow cookers are an energy-efficient way to cook meals for you and your family!

Inspire asked each partner to choose their chosen slow-cooker recipe and provide the young people from the youth zone with the ingredients. In return, they kindly donated the prepared meal to Chorley Help the Homeless. This fantastic project has had an incredible reach of over 10,000 people across the UK (enough people to fill Old Trafford!)

The project has been lucky enough to have partnered with businesses such as Chorley Building SocietyRocciaAO.comChorley GroupESG GlobalMarkem ImajeChorley Help the Homeless, and Places for People.

HAVE A LOOK AT THE RECIPE BOOK ➡

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