Ever since we first met in 2005, we’ve shared a love of camping and the great outdoors. Our first few years of wild camping together involved pitching tents in forests, fields and riverside spots across Hampshire, Wiltshire & Dorset. Our goal was always the same, to seek out our nearest patch of wilderness and feel connected to nature.

From here our sense of wanderlust grew and grew. We wanted to find a way to travel further and spend more of our time having adventures. After lots of mulling over we landed on the perfect solution - we needed a campervan!

This is where Wild Van was born. We bought our first van, an L3H2 Fiat Ducato, in 2014, which, thanks to Simon’s background in design and engineering, we converted in to our dream home-on-wheels!…

Our first Wild Van was also our first opportunity to build a home together, it was the chance to make years of dreaming about our perfect home a reality! We wanted to create a conversion that wasn’t just functional and practical for day-to-day life on the road, but was also a beautiful space where we could spend time relaxing, doing the things we loved and feeling comfortable & secure wherever we travelled to.

We wanted the design to be reminiscent of a country cottage or a traditional narrowboat home, with plenty of handcrafted woodwork, bright & cheerful colour pallettes and interesting details that draw the eye.

This first conversion had everything we needed to live and travel with ease; a kitchen with hob, oven and sink with running hot water, a wetroom with shower and toilet, a comfy double bed, heating and heaps of storage. This first van took us all across Europe and Morocco where we travelled for nine months - you can read more about our travels on our blog here. After returning to the UK, we decided that we loved our van so much that we continued living in it full-time for seven years.

During this seven years we set up our Wild Van conversion business, using our expertise and experience in camper design and travel to help others bring their vanlife dreams to life!

We’ve converted vans of all shapes and sizes, for all manner of uses, from long-term travels abroad, to UK music festivals and everything in between. It’s been a wonderful journey that’s allowed us to work with so many lovely people from all around the world.

Today, we’re living in Norwich and are embarking on a new journey, bringing together our years of knowledge and experience, to create a Wild Van range for compact campers in the Nissan NV200. The NV200 has by far been the most popular vehicle with our customers over the last few years and we love working with this van. Developing our NV200 range has been a really exciting opportunity for us to exercise our creativity and innovation, moving the world of small campervans forwards and developing the latest technology for electric campervans. If you’d like to find out more and see what we’ve been working on for yourself at our Wild Van workshop, we’d love to here from you!