Amanda Judd
Amanda Judd is a young pillar of our North Shore community, social entrepreneur and recent AIMES award winner for Services to the Community. She recently started Lovenotes, a low profit social enterprise helping companies and organisations to reuse their own waste paper, while quietly revitalizing a positive, creative and innovative working culture. She has also done a lot of work with YouworX, guiding and helping the North Shore’s youth. She shares with Channel readers what it is she loves about the community she has done so much to help.
Why I Love the Shore
Amanda Judd
Channel Magazine: How long have you lived on the Shore? Where were you before? What was it that brought you to the Shore?
Amanda Judd: All my life - 26 years, except for one I spent in Melbourne, one year I spent in Saint Heliers.
CM: What’s your favourite Shore restaurant and why?
AJ: Jam Organic Cafe in Takapuna - always delicious, with fabulous people, and I love that it’s organic -- I get more bang for my buck knowing it’s better for our bodies and better for the planet!
CM: Saturday morning North Shore style?
AJ: Sunrise walk on Takapuna Beach, a swim in the pool, meditation, a fabulous home made organic breakfast and fresh juice. All topped off with some good people and a whole lot of laughs!
CM: What’s your favourite Shore beach and why?
AJ: Takapuna, because it’s big and vast and wonderful! But it would be closely followed by Campbells Bay, where we spent our childhood summers at Nan and Pop’s home on the corner of Beach Road and The Esplanade.
CM: Where do you go to relax on the Shore?
AJ: For an early early walk in Birkenhead Point -- down to the wharf via the bush, for a swing at the park, and then there’s this awesome little spot with sunrise and city views at the end of Tizard Road.
CM: What’s the Shore’s best kept secret?
AJ: Probably my Dad’s letterpress print workshop in Birkenhead -- if you love printing or stationery or design or choice old school artisan crafts, then you’d love this place!
CM: Have you ever found anywhere else in the world that reminds you of the Shore and if so, how?
AJ: Maybe Sydney? Only because it has a Harbour, a Harbour Bridge and a North Shore though!
CM: Finally, what do you love most about the city you call home?
AJ: It’s easy, relaxing, beautiful and makes for a really balanced lifestyle. And the people are wonderful!
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