Young entrepreneur Jacob Hill talked business with the Duke of York on a visit to Buckingham Palace.

The 20-year-old founder of complete festival kits company The Lazy Camper was invited to talk to Prince Andrew about ways to encourage other young people to get involved in business after becoming one of the winners of the Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Awards.

Jacob founded the company in 2011 and was Huddersfield University’s inaugural winner of the award which was presented to 10 entrepreneurs – one from each university in Yorkshire – earlier this year.

The Duke was named a patron of Huddersfield University just last month.

Now Jacob, who lives at Brighouse, has been asked to lead the efforts to discuss what support the Duke of York’s team can give to the winners to develop their businesses further and examine how the awards can be rolled out nationally.

He said: “It was an honour to be asked to go to Buckingham Palace to discuss how those of us lucky enough to be given the Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Award can make the most of the opportunity it gives us.

“Prince Andrew’s team are keen to support us and see what help they can give to develop our businesses, particularly with potential export opportunities.

“I am grateful for the support from the Duke of York and his office and will be meeting with the other nine award winners in September to discuss the next steps for our businesses and how we can help the awards to encourage other young entrepreneurs in the future.”

Jacob founded The Lazy Camper while on the enterprise development course at Huddersfield University.

He is about to go into his third year of studies, yet The Lazy Camper already has a fully staffed office in Huddersfield’s new 3M Buckley Innovation Centre and has landed a contract to be a main sponsor of one of the UK’s leading music events; V Festival.

Prince Andrew visited the 3MBC in May to open the Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Centre with the aim of encouraging aspiring businesspeople to take a risk and start their own company.