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We are very excited to announce that we have just been accredited by Living Wage Scotland to their recently launched Living Hours campaign. The Living Hours campaign builds upon the existing Living Wage accreditation and employers who join the scheme must provide: ·       at least 4 weeks’ notice for every shift, … Read more

As a company committed to promoting sustainable travel and responsible tourism, Jerba Campervans actively seeks opportunities to raise awareness about environmental issues, including the impact of plastic pollution on our planet. We strongly believe that conservation efforts are crucial to protecting the world’s oceans and biodiversity, and we support all … Read more

The NCC Annual Inspection Report is in and we’re thrilled to announce that Jerba Campervans has received a 4.8/5 star rating! This is a huge achievement for us, as the industry average is just 3.9 stars. It’s a testament to the hard work and dedication of our team to provide … Read more

We are overjoyed to announce that Jerba Campervans has received the First Minister’s Award for Manufacturing Leadership. This esteemed award recognizes innovative manufacturing companies that demonstrate productivity and make a positive contribution to staff wellbeing, the environment, and the community. As a fully employee-owned company based in North Berwick, we … Read more

Our co-founder and outgoing MD, Simon Poole, has been named a double winner in both the National Small-Medium Business and Edinburgh & Lothians Regional Director of the Year Awards run by the Institute of Directors (IoD). Praised for his leadership on customer service and employee wellbeing, Simon took the top … Read more

We are delighted to announce that we have just been awarded the newly created Motorhome Qualified Converter status by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. This brand new national system of recognition has just been launched by Volkswagen and Jerba Campervans was one of only three UK companies to immediately meet the standards … Read more

Watch as we take the BRAND NEW VW T6 from a bare van and turn it into a fully kitted out pop top roof campervan. This conversion was done over the course of 4 weeks and the guys documented each stage with our time-lapse camera. Watch as we strip out … Read more

In 2019 reclassifying a panel van, or van with windows, to a motor caravan with the DVLA suddenly became a far more difficult task. From previously only requiring specific internal layout adaptions to enable your van to be reclassified as a motorcaravan, the DVLA added a new dimension in the … Read more

In February 2020 we wrote a blog about campervan and van with windows speed limits, which sought to unravel the mysteries of what dictates how fast you can drive a campervan on different pieces of the UK road network. Over the past six months we have been digging further into … Read more

Jerba Campervans is delighted to announce it has joined the Good Business Charter (GBC), an accreditation that seeks to raise the bar on business practices for employees, tax, the environment, customers and suppliers. It’s fantastic to be able to join the growing number of companies that are signing up to … Read more

For many years the question of campervan and motorcaravan (and now van with windows) speed limits has been a widely debated and unclear topic, so with the DVLA’s definition change of motorcaravan in 2019 we thought we revisit the speed limit subject again. After a discussion with the Dept for … Read more

Watch as we take this brand new VW T6 from a bare van and turn it into a fully kitted out high top campervan. This campervan conversion was done over the course of 4 weeks and the guys documented each stage with our time-lapse camera. Watch as we strip out … Read more

Volkswagen commercial vehicles have a very handy configurator on their website that allows you to create your perfect T6.1 van ahead of your campervan conversion. This is the configurator that we use ourselves here at Jerba and it’s a great tool for seeing what VW options are available on the … Read more

Jerba Campervans is a registered campervan converter for the VW T6 and now the T6.1, this is gained by invitation from Volkswagen themselves and is held in very high regard throughout the industry. This status comes with certain perks, such as VW inviting us along to the launch of the … Read more

On the 1st Sept 2019 the DVLA introduced a new road tax (vehicle excise duty) structure for motorcaravans (campervans & motorhomes) at their first registration. This does not affect any campervans or motorhomes that are already registered and on the road, it’s only applicable for new registrations. For Type Approval … Read more

“Planning for succession is one of the biggest challenges a business owner will face, and despite the fact that giving the topic early consideration can mean better results for the employer, the employees and the business, many delay.” Jerba Campervans founder Simon Poole recently decided to adopt the Employee Ownership … Read more