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Penny Streeter

From Homeless to Millionaire: Penny Streeter Success Story

Penny Streeter, Entrepreneur and creator of the A24 Group, which includes the companies Ambition 24 Hours, Arabella Health Staffing, & NS Health Staffing, was born in England on the 1st of August 1967. In 1996, Penny Streeter with her mom Marion founded a healthcare staffing company in Sutton, England.

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25 years back, the past beautician was a pregnant single mother who was homeless, penniless, and had £20,000 in debt from her unsuccessful recruitment agency. She also had a broken marriage.

Nobody could be more in awe of Penny Streeter’s journey from poverty to affluence than the mega-millionaire businesswoman herself. She admits that she also has a hard time believing this.

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Peter Stiff, a best-selling author from South Africa, & Marion Hewson were the parents of Penny Streeter. Penny graduated from Alberton High, Johannesburg, in 1983 after leaving Zimbabwe in 1979. when she was 12, she and her mother Marion moved from South Africa to the United Kingdom. After finishing high school at age 15, she began working in the recruitment industry under the Youth Training Programme.

After she failed in her recruitment business, she spent some time working in other people’s recruitment businesses.

Streeter attempted again in 1995 with a new firm, supported by evenings moonlighting as a children’s party performer. A nursing staffing company called Ambition 24 Hours was established in 1996.

After experiencing rapid expansion, the company launched more UK facilities and broadened the range of services to include temporary doctors, health care professionals, carers, social service providers, & teachers or lecturers throughout the course of the following ten years.

The Benguela Cove Lagoon Wine Estate which is a South African wine vineyard & dwellings property situated on the lagoon at Walker Bay, Hermanus, was acquired by Streeter in 2013 and is now under development.

In 2016, Streeter acquired Mannings Heath Golf Club located in West Sussex by purchasing the Exclusive Group’s majority stake. This was promptly followed by her purchase of Leonardslee Gardens, also present in West Sussex, in 2017.

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After developing new hotel rooms in October 2021, Streeter established Restaurant Interlude located at Leonardslee House in October 2018. This establishment gained its initial Michelin Star under Chef Jean Delport in August 2019.

Her story is truly inspiring for people who think failure is the end. It motivates people to not lose hope and wait for success to come to them.

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