About Amanda

Amanda is the Yang to Justin’s Yin. She makes the sun shine and the world go round.

In spite of her hair resembling an explosion in a string factory, and a famous line in mixed metaphors, Amanda is an inspiring leader who worked with Richard Curtis and Kevin Cahill to grow Comic Relief from a minnow to a fundraising whale over 23 years, and along the way she nurtured the partnerships with the BBC and the corporate supporters, and led the launch of Red Nose Day in the USA.

In her early life she spend six years at Nottingham University (also rowing), and earned a PhD in Chemistry, under the great Sir Professor Martin Poliakoff.

She then applied for a job in the marketing department of Proctor and Gamble by mistake, and discovered her natural talent as a marketeer (she didn’t write this bit though).

More recently she has served as Director of Partnerships at Girl Effect, CEO of Semble, Head of the AELTC Wimbledon Foundation, and is currently running the Foundation for The Hurlingham Club.

Her team would follow her anywhere, if only out of curiosity.

Amanda is relentlessly cheerful and brings her mother’s Italian gusto and esprit. Let’s not talk too much about the temper. (Amanda didn’t write this bit either)