Amanda Grant, Ambassador

2007 NSW Youth and Corporate Volunteer of the Year

Amanda has captured the hearts and minds of the "tradies" by instigating and founding the Tradies Community Service Volunteer Program. Formed in 2006, the program formalises support for people in times of need. Her efforts have raised funds within the Sutherland Shire by tradespeople for organisations such as the Salvation Army and the Heart Foundation. She also organised a Tradies' Challenge fun run, with the proceeds being donated to the Minerva Street School for children with multiple and complex disabilities. The program now has six local volunteering partnerships.

Her nominator, Janeen Thompson says: "With the current Generation Y described as self-focussed and existential, Amanda's quality in a young volunteer is both rare and exceptional."