Nicholas Robert Bowen, , also known as Nick Bob Bowen, is a

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and promoter of enterprise. He was the head teacher at

St Benet Biscop Catholic High School St. Benet Biscop Catholic Academy (formerly S. Benet Biscop Catholic High School) is a Roman Catholic high school in Bedlington, Northumberland, England. It is the only Catholic high school in the county. Patron Biscop Baducing was born around ...

, Bedlington, Northumberland from 2001 to 2012. In 2010, he was awarded the

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. He is, as of 2015, the principal at

Horizon Community College Horizon Community College is a co-educational secondary school located in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, on the A628. The school was formed in 2012 from a merger of Holgate School and The Kingstone School. The school relocated to a new ...

, Barnsley, a position he has held since 2012.

St Benet Biscop Catholic High School

While head teacher at St Benet Biscop Catholic High School,

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, Bowen led the development of the school's enterprise agenda from 2001-2012. The school gained Specialist Business and Enterprise College status in 2005 and in 2006 it opened a Business and Learning Centre. sponsored by Cooperative Group. The school had a national reputation for engaging with local business. The school twice represented the North East in the National Young Enterprise Competition.

Benet Enterprises

Because of the success of the student enterprises, Bowen set up a

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, based on these ventures. Called Benet Enterprises Ltd., it was a successful venture based off-site in the town centre offering commercial services to local business. The enterprise was funded by

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, through the Go Wansbeck LEGI. Thus Bowen had established the first commercially viable social enterprise to incubate student's ideas. He was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion in part for this work. In 2008 Benet Enterprises, working with Go Wansbeck and

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enabled nearly a thousand pupils to visit local companies and see how they work. Bowen inspired schools "in Northumberland and now as far afield as Leeds to do the same". As a result of the social enterprise a number of businesses were founded by pupils.

Other enterprise promotion

Bowen worked with

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Local Enterprise Growth Initiative Board, where he was instrumental obtaining £11.8m for business regeneration, which included £1m for young people's enterprise education. He also worked with the

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, and brought together a network of organisations resulting in a culture change in favour of enterprise and entrepreneurship.

Horizon Community College

Bowen was the inaugural head of Horizon, a local authority school formed by the merger of two schools, in 2012. In 2013 he was appointed chairman of the South Yorkshire School Games, which were partly hosted at Horizon Community College that year. In June 2014, due to

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, he announced redundancy of 40 staff, including at least eight teaching staff.

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South Yorkshire School Games
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