Amanda has headed up Community & Business Partners CIC since 2004. She has developed the business into one which focusses on four specific areas of social impact; Business, Community, Environment and Skills.

Under Amanda’s Leadership the business has developed a specialist bank of 200 industry experts offering some of the most comprehensive Business Support services in the UK. 

It also has an environmental focus, rescuing manufactured materials which would otherwise head to landfill and taking in surplus food. The manufactured materials are then repurposed and sold on through their on-site scrap store to community groups, schools and individuals across the country.

The food service takes in food that would otherwise head to landfill and supplies it to families in need and works on specific Local Authority food distribution, providing access to food for families in need. 

All of the community and environmental work is subsidised by the Business Support the company offers, meaning that users of the service are also helping to meet their own ESG (Environmental Social Governance) obligations. 

Community & Business Partners are also the only Community Interest Company to be an Endorsing Body for the Home Office’s Tier 1 Innovator and Start-Up Visa Programme, supporting oversees entrepreneurs to the UK. 

They also work with the Advanced Manufacturing Industry across Lancashire to identify, recruit and train to fill skills gaps. 

Through the Covid-19 pandemic, the organisation successfully continued operating, furloughing no staff and securing £120,000 in new funding, all while carrying on diverting thousands of tonnes of materials away from landfill, creating affordable art and craft resources for local communities and feeding thousands of vulnerable people in need, each day. 

In November 2021, Amanda appeared on a Leaders Council of Great Britain & Northern Ireland podcast, discussing the importance of leadership and the impact it has had on her career to date.