Fundraising Convention Board Chair, Jonathan Levy, started his career as a fundraising apprentice with The Peace Foundation in his hometown of Warrington, before becoming a sole fundraiser. Today, Jonathan is a face-to-face fundraising specialist and founder of the world’s first movement dedicated to neurodiversity in fundraising, Neurodiverse Fundraisers.
Jonathan is an award-winning disability campaigner who previously served as one of the UK’s youngest charity chairs, and directed his local Samaritans branch. In addition to this, Jonathan is a captain of male mental fitness organisation, Talk Club.
As someone with lived experience of disability, discrimination, homelessness, and coming from an ethnic minority background, equality, diversity, and inclusion is highly important to Jonathan, and he played a leading role in the CIOF’s Change Collective campaign.
Outside of his various paid and voluntary roles, Jonathan is an avid football fan and Everton season ticket holder.