Penny Streeter
OBE
From a homeless refuge with three children to a £200 million international group a story of drive, determination, and reinvestment, built without a single borrowed penny.
Sutton, Surrey, 1996
Built from nothing,
by hand and by will
Penny Streeter OBE is the founder of the A24 Group, a healthcare staffing business she launched with her mother in 1996. By 2002 the company was ranked No. 1 in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 — Britain's fastest-growing company. In 2006, Penny received the OBE in the New Year Honours for Services to Enterprise.
Today she lives in Cape Town with her husband Nick. Beyond the A24 Group, her portfolio includes Benguela Cove Lagoon Wine Estate in South Africa, Mannings Heath Golf & Wine Estate and Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens in Sussex one of the largest UK garden restoration projects in thirty years.
A keen conservationist, Penny supports a homeless refuge in Hermanus close to Benguela Cove and is patron of the Hermanus Night Shelter Association.
Who is Penny
Built from nothing,
by hand and by will
Penny Streeter OBE is the founder of the A24 Group, a healthcare staffing business she launched with her mother in 1996. By 2002 the company was ranked No. 1 in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 Britain's fastest-growing company. In 2006, Penny received the OBE in the New Year Honours for Services to Enterprise.
Today she lives in Cape Town with her husband Nick. Beyond the A24 Group, her portfolio includes Benguela Cove Lagoon Wine Estate in South Africa, Mannings Heath Golf & Wine Estate and Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens in Sussex one of the largest UK garden restoration projects in thirty years.
A keen conservationist, Penny supports a homeless refuge in Hermanus close to Benguela Cove and is patron of the Hermanus Night Shelter Association.
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£200M+
Group
Valuation -
1996
A24 Group
Founded -
100k+
Healthcare hours
placed weekly -
OBE
Awarded for Services
to Enterprise · 2006
The Portfolio
A collection across two continents
From medical staffing to one of the UK's most celebrated wine estates a vertical of ventures built on the same founding philosophy: solve a problem nobody else will, and never stop reinvesting.
Benguela Cove
Lagoon Wine Estate
Leonardslee Lakes
& Gardens
A 200-hectare lagoon estate in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve. Platter's Five Star wines, ranked World's Best Vineyards No. 53, and a WWF Conservation Champion.
Wine Estate · Est. 2013
Garden Estate · Acquired 2017
A 240-acre Grade I Listed Victorian garden estate — the largest UK garden restoration since the Lost Gardens of Heligan. Home of Restaurant Interlude.
Estate Cerf Sanctuary, Seychelles
Mannings Heath
Golf & Wine
Private Sanctuary
Golf & Wine · Acquired 2016
A private island within the Sainte Anne Marine National Park extending the philosophy of estates built in active relationship with their landscapes.
The UK's first golf and wine estate. 750 acres, two championship courses, and 38 acres of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier — half of Leonardslee Family Vineyards.
The OBE · 2006
Services To Enterprise
Penny received her Order of the British Empire in the 2006 New Year Honours — recognising a decade of building a business of genuine national importance, without conventional advantages. The CBI named her Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003. Management Today placed her in the Top 100 Entrepreneurs for two consecutive years, as the highest-ranked woman both times. The South African Chamber of Commerce named her Business Woman of the Year in 2019.
The OBE · 2006
What keeps her going
"The qualities you need to succeed are drive and determination. It's all about common sense and knowing your market. As we grew bigger, you have other people's livelihoods that you're responsible for. I still have this fear that if I don't work hard — the world moves very quickly and you can become uncompetitive. There is always the fear of losing everything."
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