Amanda joined the board in November 2024, bringing her extensive marketing expertise in commercial marketing, branding and business development in both the private and public sectors.
As a chartered marketer, she offers strategic marketing knowledge combined with eight years of experience in local authority commercial and education catering where she built the Hampshire education catering brand ‘Food To Flourish’. Winner of numerous awards including Peas Please individual champion 2021, two LACA marketing excellence awards and two Cateys in one night, Amanda was also a Soil Association school food champion finalist in 2019.
Motivated by real social purpose, Amanda is passionate about promoting lifelong positive food habits and believes that access to nutritious meals provides children with the most impactful way to support their health and academic success.
Her desire to join the LACA board stems from the organisation’s aim to address funding inequalities that leads to hunger and poverty amongst children and young people and her desire for all children and young people to have access to nutritious food at school.
Amanda has a keen interest in sustainability, and a lifelong passion for literature and historic homes.