THE entrepreneurship and enterprise of an Old Blundellian will feature on BBC One’s Countryfile programme on Sunday, November 2.

Nineteen year old Lewis Steer runs Lily Warne Wool in partnership with his mother Paula from their Dartmoor farm.

The innovative business was set up in 2012 and specialises in producing wool and woollen products made from the fleece of their Greyface Dartmoor Sheep.

Lewis was given his first two sheep of the breed by his parents after achieving good GCSE grades at Blundell’s, which he attended from 2006 to 2013 and was head boy in his last year.

As the flock grew, the Steers started creating a range of products from the wool, including brooches and headbands, which are now stocked by major high street retailer John Lewis, the National Trust and other shops.

The BBC One programme looks at the story of Lily Warne Wool from farm to yarn.

It features Lewis talking about his sheep and his work with the Dartmoor Sheep Breeders Association (he is the association’s youngest ever council member) and mother and son with two of the local women who knit and crochet the Lily Warne products.

The programme focuses particular on Lily Warne’s poppy brooches; £1 from every poppy sold is donated to the Royal British Legion. The company also produces poppies in the Blundell’s school colours with the same donation to the charity.

Lewis somehow manages to juggle the business with studying at the Royal Agricultural University at Cirencester. It was through the university’s Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Programme that he was able to showcase his business at the Big Feastival in the summer, where he was seen by Adam Henson of Countryfile.

The programme will be broadcast at 8pm on BBC One on Sunday 2 November.