PLAN B
@ Tunmarsh School Each One Teach One Trust
Ben had a difficult start to his education and ended up being expelled from school. However, he turned things around for himself with the help of teachers at his new school Tunmarsh, and has never looked back. Ben cannot praise the teachers highly enough. He said: “I always champion them. This was the one place where the teachers said: ‘if you want to be a musician, we believe in you, you should pursue it’.”
Since leaving Tunmarsh he has recorded three award-winning albums, two of which were chart number ones. He has built a career in the film industry, culminating in writing and directing his own film Ill Manors (2012) and starring in the number one box office smash The Sweeney (2012).
As part of his Each One Teach One Trust – a university of alternative learning – he is building a new music room at Tunmarsh, with a state-of-the- art studio, and funding a teacher to help children build real careers. Ben is also passionate about why he is giving something back: “It makes everything that I have done, even the mainstream stuff, it makes it all mean something.” As well as the time he spends coaching and mentoring, Ben is also keen to bring other musicians and artists to the school: “We can make a difference and make our lives mean more by coming back here.”
photo by: Andrew Baker Ben Drew ”
Giving something back. It makes everything that I have done, even the mainstream stuff, it makes it all mean something.
53 photo by: Andrew Baker
Plan B – aka Ben Drew, headed back to his old school Tunmarsh, to speak to students about his career and his journey to becoming a successful music artist and film director.
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