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.

Danny was born 24 July 1977 in Canning Town, East London. He had a fairly typical East End upbringing, and would probably never have entered acting if he hadn’t been spotted at his local Sunday School.

Danny steadily worked his way up from TV series to films and also did theatre work. Well-known TV-series are ‘Cadfael’, ‘A Touch of Frost’ and ‘Thief Takers’, while ‘The Football Factory’ and ‘The Business’ are some of the successful films he appeared in. He is also known for being the voice-over of Kent Paul in the very successful computer game ‘Grand Theft Auto’.

Sulzeer Jeremiah “Sol” Campbell was born 18 September 1974 in Plaistow, East London and went to Lister Community School. He is a world-renowned English footballer. He currently plays for Portsmouth in the English Premiership, having previously played for Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal. He is the only player to have played for England in six consecutive major tournaments.

His list of honours includes two FA Premier League titles, three FA Cups, an FA Community Shield and a League Cup. He was also voted in the FIFA World Cup All-Star Team of the WC 2002 and in the All-Star squad of WC 1998 and EC 2004.

Alexander McQueen CBE was born as Lee Alexander McQueen on 17th March 1969 in East London and attended Rokeby school. He is one of the most influential English fashion designers in the world.

McQueen is the son of a taxi driver and he started out making dresses for his three sisters at a young age. After school he landed himself an apprenticeship with Savile Row tailors Anderson and Shepherd and continued to work for different taylors at Savile Row before travelling to Italy and working for Romeo Gigli. When McQueen returned to London he applied to London’s most prestigious fashion school, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design to work as a pattern cutter tutor. He was persuaded to enrol as a student and graduated in 1991. In 1996 McQueen was instated as head designer at Givenchy. He worked there until 2001. He currently has partnerships with Gucci and Puma alongside his own line of clothes and perfume.

McQueen is one of the youngest designers to achieve the title “British Designer of the Year” he went on to win this award four times between 1996 and 2003. He has also been awarded the CBE, as well as being named International Designer of the Year at the Council of Fashion Designer Awards.