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David Jamilly

David Jamilly

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David Jamilly is an English social entrepreneur and humanitarian.

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Business career

Jamilly co-founded Theme Traders with his sister Kim Einhorn. Theme Traders is a London based event management, party planning and prop hire company launched in 1989.[1] The company grew out of their work as children's entertainers, when they began to receive requests from parents to organise entire parties.[2]

Humanitarian activities

Jamilly started his humanitarian activities with entertaining sick children at Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1977 he founded Pod Children's Charity, which now arranges over 2500 performances a year and has entertained over a million children in children's hospital wards and hospices throughout the United Kingdom.[3]

Jamilly appeared on the Secret Millionaire in 2010 in Redcar in an extended programme,[4] which topped two million seven hundred thousand viewers by the end. In the programme, he handed out £25,000 each and became patron to Sid's Place - Redcar Community College, Zoe's Place Baby Hospice and the Redcar Amateur Boxing Association.[5]

Jamilly, with Frankie Wales, was one of the co-founders of the Redcar Fire and Steel Festival a festival which celebrated Teesside's heritage of 150 years of steel making.[6]

Jamilly founded The Good Deeds Organisation in 2005 which promotes global good deeds and kindness and went on to co-launch and celebrate Kindness Day UK in 2010. Kindness Day UK aims to make each person in the UK carry out one act of kindness on 13 November, World Kindness Day.[7]

In 2011, Jamilly founded Kindness UK, a not-for-profit, independent organisation which aims to promote, share and unite kindness every day and make kindness a greater part of everyone's day-to-day lives.[8] He is also a patron of Zoe's Place Baby Hospice, a charity for sick babies and young children.[9]

Educational activities

He sat on the advisory board for the International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism and Hospitality (ICRETH) 2011 - 2013 based at Leeds Metropolitan University.[10] Jamilly was made an Honorary Doctor of Business by Southampton Solent University on 22 November 2013.[11] Jamilly funded Kindness UK Symposium at the University of Sussex in 2016.[12] He was also a guest speaker at Sheffield Hallam University.[13]

Bibliography

  • David Jamilly and Tammy Cohen, Party People: How to make millions from having fun (ISBN 978-1-907499-77-7)
  • David Jamilly, Enjoy: The Creative Approach to Events - Theme Traders (ISBN 0-9542453-0-X)

References

  1. [1]
    "Fun and games with Theme Traders". Evening Standard online. 6 January 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  2. [2]
    Emma Tobias (19 August 2000). "Every night is party night". The Independent. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  3. [3]
    "Providing the feel good factor". Nursing Standard. 10 (47): 26–7. 14 August 1996. doi:10.7748/ns.10.47.26.s41. PMID 8868918. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
    - Fitzgerald, Todd (13 November 2015). "Kindness Day UK: Tell us about your good deeds". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  4. [4]
    "The Secret Millionaire - S6 - Episode 5: David Jamilly". Radio Times. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  5. [5]
    Dave Robson (29 December 2011). "Secret Millionaire David "DJ" Jamilly can't keep away from Teesside". The Gazette. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  6. [6]
    "Fire and steel event celebration on Teesside". BBC News. 19 February 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
    - Robson, Dave (13 October 2015). "Secret Millionaire: Teesside steel will always be in my heart". gazettelive. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  7. [7]
    Shelagh Parkinson (13 November 2014). "Resort bids to be 'kindness' capital of UK". The Blackpool Gazette. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
    - Todd Fitzgerald (13 November 2015). "Kindness Day UK: Tell us about your good deeds". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  8. [8]
    Poorna Bell (13 November 2014). "How Can Being Kinder To People Help With Loneliness?". Huffington Post. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  9. [9]
    Howell, Madeleine (29 November 2019). "'If children's hospices like this one didn't exist, I don't know how we'd cope'". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
    - Robson, Dave (15 May 2010). "Secret Millionaire David Jamilly back in Redcar". Teesside Live. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  10. [10]
    "ICRETH Annual Report 2011-2012" (PDF). Leeds Metropolitan University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
    - "ICRETH Annual Report 2012-2013" (PDF). Leeds Metropolitan University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  11. [11]
    "Music mogul gets honorary doctorate from university". The Daily Echo. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
    - "Honorary graduates". Southampton Solent University. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  12. [12]
    "University of Sussex Kindness UK Symposium - Thursday 10th November". University of Sussex. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
    - Chappet, Marie-Claire. "How to *actually* be kind during the Coronavirus pandemic". Glamour. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
    - "World Kindness Day: Why 2019 is the year compassion became cool". MSN. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  13. [13]
    "BSc (Honours) International Events Management with Experiential Marketing". Sheffield Hallam University. Retrieved 10 June 2011.[permanent dead link]
    - "Events Management - Sheffield Hallam University". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
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