FEZZAN AHMED

MSC GRANT MAKING, PHILANTHROPY AND SOCIAL INVESTMENT, CITY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

I never completed my undergraduate degree due to personal circumstances and instead developed a career in the Banking industry.

After 6 years with HSBC, I moved into my first professional fundraising role. At the Battersea Arts Centre I learnt about the charity sector and and then completed an MA in Community Organising. I continued my fundraising career in Higher Education with the University of Westminster and soon developed a social enterprise, the Jigsaw House Society, with my co-founder Kamal Sanusi – working on empowerment projects specifically designed with and for people from under represented backgrounds.

Now, thanks to the Aziz Foundation I will be learning and sharing how marginalised people can organise money around the changes they want to make in their communities, via working in the charity sector or creating their own social enterprises.