Newham Education Business Partnership - Mentoring

Lennox Claudius Lewis was born 2 September 1965 in West Ham. He boxed under the flag of Canada as well as the United Kingdom and held the title of Undisputed Heavyweight Champion. He is now retired from professional boxing.

Raised in Newham, living in Forest Gate, Timothy Campbell attended St Bonaventure’s School and went to study Psychology at Middlesex University. He became a Transport Manager with London Underground. Then his life completely changed when he won the popular BBC TV-show ‘The Apprentice”.

Fending off fierce competition of 12 other candidates, 27 year old Timothy was the only one told ‘You’re hired!” by Amstrad tycoon Sir Alan Sugar. It landed him a £100,000 a year job developing and marketing a new product line at Amstrad. He has recently stopped working for Sir Alan Sugar to start the Bright Ideas Trust which aims to help young entrepeneurs.

Proud of his background and support he received from the school, he is now also a governor of St. Bonaventure’s.

Roger Griffiths hails from Stratford and is an actor who starred in various television programmes.

He is probably most well-known for his role as kitchen hand Everton in Lenny Henry’s ‘Chef!’. Throughout the 90s he guested in many of the popular long running comedy / soaps on British screens, such as ‘Birds of a Feather’ (1990), ‘Family Affairs’ (1997), ‘Casualty’ (1991 and again in 2001), ‘Heartbeat and Holby City’ (2002). He was a semi-regular character D.S. Paul Timpney in ‘The Bill’, and has been in ‘Dr Terrible’s House of Horrible’.

The NEBP still remembers when he was an actor of ‘Actor-shop’, the fantastic group of actors that enliven our BOSS days so much.

Year 10 students from Plashet School participated in a new enterprise competition, organised by Newham Education Business Partnership, called ‘The Wedding’ and become wedding planners for the day.

To enter the competition each group of students had to allocate different roles to members of the team. Each team had to consist of a Team Leader, a Finance Manager, a Creative Manager and an Event Organiser. The team also had to justify the allocation of roles i.e. how each student met the requirements of their given role.

Armed with a brief, budget, guest list, resources and deadline, the teams presented their business plan, creations and proposals to a panel of judges.
The teams, with their own unique names from ‘The Wedding Crashers’ to ‘Desi Mix’, had to make choices in wedding dresses, catering companies, venues, decorations.. all the glitz and glamour which make up a perfect 21st century wedding!

The designs and style of the weddings the teams came up with ranged from flamboyant, gold-encrusted traditional Asian weddings to modern, minimal 21st century City weddings. Excelling in teamwork, business planning, problem solving and decision making skills, the students fulfilled their entrepreneurial and creative abilities whilst having tremendous fun!

Plashet School and Newham EBP were very pleased with the success of this enterprise competition.