He was the head teacher at St Benet Biscop Catholic High School, Bedlington, Northumberland from 2001 to 2012.
[4] The school twice represented the North East in the National Young Enterprise Competition.
Called Benet Enterprises Ltd., it was a successful venture based off-site in the town centre offering commercial services to local business.
[7] Thus Bowen had established the first commercially viable social enterprise to incubate student's ideas.
In 2013 he was appointed chairman of the South Yorkshire School Games,[9] which were partly hosted at Horizon Community College that year.