My obituary 1/10/2142 Peter Hirst was a much loved friend of the stars. Magician, novelist, comedian and a thoroughbread tea drinker. Born 10/08/83, the racer of olympic atheletes, beater of drums and crime fighter extrordinaire has sadly passed away. A national day of mourning was declared by King Brooklyn Beckham Jnr and everyone under 25 received a Playstation 51 as per Peter’s last will and testament. After winning the eurovision song contest in 2008 Peter went on to achieve tremendous success topping the charts for a record 112 weeks (which still stands today) with his delightful ballad ‘My little pastie’. He next developed low cost moon shuttle service, ‘Moon me’ and was awarded an OBE for his exploits in developing the ‘Van-to-path Generator’ which transformed retired cars and vans into a biodegradable tarmac-like road surface. Obviously best known for his work with renewable energy and the now infamous ‘Hirstoplant’ which at it’s peak generated 84% of the world’s electricity using wasted thoughts and creativity. Interestingly, the following year his amazing record breaking enterprise education programmes put the plant out of business as there was no more wasted ideas! In a recent interview with Jonathon Ross’s great grandson, Jonny Jnr Jnr …

Roger has a BA(Hons)in Design. He has been in business for over 30 years, from architectural design, flooring sales and manufacturing, running a farm park, the family advertising agency, marketing, design and business consultancy. He works with companies both large and small and has played a role in building several successful multi-million pound companies in the southeast, winning European awards on the way. He has the experience of directly employing over seventy staff across various companies, as well as being responsible for client marketing department staff. Currently Managing Director of BIG Solutions Ltd and Education for Enterprise CIC. As Regional Chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Kent and Policy Chairman for SE England, he represents a business membership of 7000 companies in Kent and circa 40,000 across the southeast. He is a member of the SEERA Executive (Economic Partners) and Plenary groups, (has chaired the manufacturing select committee), Regional and Local Skills Boards, Kent Economic Board, Kent Partnership, Sector Skills Steering group. His education interests have led him into creating an initiative with a colleague – Small Business Ambassadors (www.smallbusinessambassadors.co.uk), managed by a social enterprise company Education for Enterprise CIC. He works with a wide range of …