The Lazy Camper’s £180,000 backing

Mr Hill, who lives in Brighouse and is currently studying an enterprise development course at Huddersfield University, set up The Lazy Camper in November 2011.

The company, which is predicting a turnover of £900,000 for this year, has now partnered with V Festival to offer its products to those attending the events in August.

This follows a trial offering the camping package to VIP guests of Virgin Media’s Louder Lounge hospitality area at last year’s V Festival in Chelmsford, Essex.

Mr Hill has secured investment from entrepreneur Graham Leslie and coffee expert and business investor David Cooper, who will both take roles in the company alongside four other people, taking staff numbers from two to seven within weeks.

Mr Leslie, who founded the South Yorkshire pharmaceutical business Galpharm International, which he sold in 2008 for $88m, said: “I am extremely proud to be associated with The Lazy Camper and to be able to support and fund such an adventurous person as Jacob, who has developed his business so successfully by himself and just a few friends.”

The Lazy Camper is based in Huddersfield’s 3M Buckley Innovation Centre, a recently launched hub for start-up businesses. Mr Hill is the first student whose business has a fully staffed office in the centre.