We’ve won Marketing Campaign of the Year at the Made in Britain Impact Awards 2026!
We’ve won! Orange Campers has been awarded the ‘Marketing Campaign of the Year’ prize at the 2026 Made in Britain Impact Awards, and we’re still pinching ourselves.
A few weeks ago we shared the news that we’d been shortlisted, and we said at the time that simply making the shortlist felt like a fantastic achievement.
On Wednesday 4th November, at the Made in Britain Impact Awards ceremony at The Bank House Hotel & Golf Club in Worcestershire, we took home the award. It’s an emotional moment for us, and it’s one we won’t forget in a hurry.
The award recognises our success in turning creative marketing into measurable commercial growth. It also recognises the thriving community of customers and enthusiasts we’ve built around the Orange Campers brand.
What are the Made in Britain Impact Awards?
The awards are organised by Made in Britain, the not-for-profit trade organisation behind the internationally recognised trademark for British-made goods.
Now in their fifth year, the Made in Britain Impact Awards celebrate achievements across eight categories, recognising manufacturers for their contributions to innovation, exporting, procurement, marketing, sustainability, social impact, leadership and heritage.
We’re proud to be a Made in Britain accredited workshop, and every ‘van we make is built at our HQ in Rotherham by our own workshop team.
We faced strong competition in the category, with WinManERP receiving Highly Commended recognition and CoCo Wolf Outdoor Furniture named runner-up.
Why this award means so much to us
We feel honoured and proud as small business owners to gain recognition for the brand we have worked so hard to embed since we launched Orange Campers six years ago.
Richard and Sonya started Orange Campers with a shared vision of bringing their love of campervanning to others. Richard’s first campervan was an orange VW, and that passion has stayed with us ever since, inspiring us to build the very best campervans we can, with practicality and quality at our heart.
It means even more that we were the only campervan converter nominee, and we know other big brands such as Swift and Auto-Sleepers are members of the Made in Britain quality mark. This award endorses our market presence, and it means Orange will continue to grow as a quality campervan brand in the market.
What the judges said
The judges praised our comprehensive marketing strategy, which combines digital advertising, video content and customer engagement to reach new audiences and strengthen relationships with existing buyers.
John Pearce, CEO of Made in Britain, said:
“Orange Campers has achieved some outstanding results through a marketing strategy that puts its customers at the heart of the business. The company has clearly invested considerable thought and effort into understanding its audience and finding creative ways to reach people who share its enthusiasm for campervans. The projected revenue growth is particularly impressive, and it’s encouraging to see a smaller British manufacturer achieving this level of commercial success through its own marketing activities. Congratulations to the whole Orange Campers team on a thoroughly deserved award.”
Video played a central role in the campaign, with our YouTube channel attracting more than 650,000 views over the year, an increase of more than 325%.
The strategy has helped put us on course for 34% year-on-year revenue growth. The judges were particularly impressed by the campaign’s financial performance and its ability to build lasting relationships with customers.
The community behind the campaign
For us, marketing has always been about sharing our family story with prospective customers, showing them the people and passion behind the business. To have that approach recognised with this award means an enormous amount to us.
We might spend most of our time talking about campervans, clever layouts and the latest ideas coming out of the workshop, but behind the scenes there’s a huge amount of work that goes into sharing what we do, telling our story and getting Orange Campers in front of the right people.
Part of that has been developing our own programme of customer events, bringing campervan owners and enthusiasts together while giving prospective customers opportunities to learn more about our vehicles. Our Owner’s Club brings Trouvaille owners together all year round, and our annual Campout has become one of the highlights of our calendar.
We created Love Your Campervan Day because we couldn’t find an existing celebration of the ‘vans people love. Our coffee mornings and open days give new faces the chance to hear what ownership is really like from the people who live with it.
That word of mouth has carried Orange Campers all the way from Gary and Clare collecting the very first Trouvaille in 2020 to a national award six years later!
Thank you to everyone who made it happen
Thank you so much to Made in Britain for this prestigious award, and to Navigate B2B Marketing, who sponsored the Marketing Campaign of the Year category.
We’d like to thank our fantastic team, our wonderful community and, of course, our customers for being part of our journey. None of this would be possible without our brilliant team, our owners, and the fantastic Orange Campers community, who continue to support us, share their adventures, and recommend us to others.
So many of the conversations we have at the workshop start with “my friend has one of your ‘vans”, and there’s no better compliment than that!
Come and meet the award-winning team
If you’d like to see what all the fuss is about, the best way is to come and visit us at the workshop. A workshop tour gives you the chance to see live production inside our Made in Britain accredited workshop and meet the team behind the award. You’ll find a brew waiting for you in our cosy welcome area, and you can have a proper look around the ‘vans while you’re here.
It’s also the perfect time to talk to us about a 2027 build slot before they’re snapped up.
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