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Long-form Profiles
On Penny & the A24 Story
12 May 2018
The Times
Penny Streeter interview: the head of HR firm Ambition on how her £140m business started as a homeless refuge.
19 May 2018
The Daily Mail
How Penny went from a homeless, pregnant, single mother to one of Britain's richest women: Now worth £157 million.
3 March 2019
The Telegraph
Penny Streeter: 'How I went from homeless to being on the rich list'
12 March 2020
Recruiter
Penny Streeter: Growing Ambition
27 April 2020
The Sun
I was homeless for two years before starting my own recruitment business - now I'm worth £208 million.
12 May 2020
Forbes Africa
No More Penny-Pinching For Penny
Disruptors Podcast
Rob Moore
Homeless to £208 Million "an incredible, motivational and emotional rollercoaster"
"Penny Streeter has built one of the most influential business stories of our time and she has done it twice."
— The Sunday Times
The garden, the vineyard, the press
On the estates & the wine
June 2018
The Times
Robin Lane Fox visits Leonardslee during restoration: "If anyone has the energy and planning to revive the place, it has to be Streeter."
2018
BBC Gardeners' World
Penny and Leonardslee feature on BBC Two - a full year before the gardens reopen to the public.
2024
Tim Atkin MW
Benguela Cove - seven wines scored. Catalina Semillon 2022 at 95 pts.
2025
Decanter
Decanter Buying Guide cover Leonardslee Family Vineyards - the first UK vineyard to plant Pinotage.
2025
James Suckling
Leonardslee Blanc de Blancs - 93 pts. "Refined, focused, distinctly English."
2025
Oz Clarke
"A great example of how English sparkling wine is leading the world in balanced, beautiful style."
2025
Jancis Robinson
Leonardslee Family Vineyards reviewed - including the first English sparkling with Pinotage.
2025
World's Best Vineyards
Leonardslee Family Vineyards enters at No. 56 - eighteen months after launch, ahead of Moët & Chandon.
2025
Michelin Guide
Leonardslee House receives a Michelin Key - Restaurant Interlude named AA Overall UK Restaurant of the Year.
2024 · 2025
WineGB
The Streeter Family oversee the thriving family-run wine estates across South Africa and England; Benguela Cove and Leonardslee.
2026
Platter's Guide
Platter's South African Wine Guide - Benguela Cove receives two Five-Star ratings (Vinography & Estate Chardonnay 2024).