An Inspirational entrepreneur who sold her car to set up her camper van hire company on the Isle of Wight has been awarded a NatWest Everywoman Award in recognition of her successful business, Isle of Wight Camper Cans.
The everywoman organisation exists to challenge attitudes to women in business, and Sarah Guy was presented with the Hestia Award which celebrates inspirational women who run a community spirited rural-based business.
Isle of Wight Camper Vans has a fleet of 12 fully-equipped camper vans which can be hired by tourists to travel around the island.
Inspired by a similar business in Australia, Sarah sold her car to buy the first camper van and has expanded rapidly in less than five years since she began.
Now, her fleet is double what she had forecast at this stage.
Very community minded, Sarah uses the travel company to help promote other local businesses on the Isle of Wight, offering her customers laundry services, tourist activities and locally-sourced food among other things.
Commenting on this year’s Everywoman Award-winners, the organisation’s co-founder, Karen Gill MBE said: “Yet again we have uncovered a host of role models who are testament that vision and determination equal success and that Britain remains a strong breeding ground for enterprise.”
