Amanda was a founder member of TOP when she worked as the Senior Lecturer in leisure at Bangor University in 2002. She was instrumental in providing the Bangor University research which gave the necessary evidence for the need of an Organisation which led to the Minister funding the North West Wales Outdoor Partnership in 2002/03 for the first 3 years.

Subsequently she has acted as a stakeholder, initially for Bangor University and then for Gwynedd County Council. In 2011 when the present Company was formed she was a founding Director and subsequently a Trustee when TOP became a Charity.

She has been a former Chair of TOP and Director for Development up to 2021 when she retired from the Board. Her contribution to the ongoing success of TOP has been immense.