David Jamilly

David Jamilly is an English social entrepreneur and humanitarian.

David Jamilly
BornLondon, England
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipBritish
EducationHighgate School London

Business career

David 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

David 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][4]

David Jamilly appeared on the Secret Millionaire in 2010 in Redcar in an extended programme,[5] which topped two million seven hundred thousand viewers by the end of it. The programme saw David handling out £25,000 each and becoming patron to Sid's Place - Redcar Community College, Zoe's Place - baby hospice and Redcar Amateur Boxing Association.[6]

David, alongside 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.[7][8]

David 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.[9][10]

In 2011 David 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.[11] He is also a patron of Zöe's Place Baby Hospice, a charity for sick babies and young children.[12][13]

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.[14][15] Jamilly was made an Honorary Doctor of Business by Southampton Solent University, awarded 22 November 2013.[16][17] David Jamilly funded Kindness UK Symposium at the University of Sussex in 2016.[18][19][20] He was also a guest speaker at Sheffield Hallam University.[21][22]

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

References
  1. "Fun and games with Theme Traders". Evening Standard online. 6 January 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  2. Emma Tobias (19 August 2000). "Every night is party night". Independent. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  3. "Providing the feel good factor". Nursing Standard. Nursing standard. 10 (47): 26–7. 14 August 1996. doi:10.7748/ns.10.47.26.s41. PMID 8868918. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  4. Fitzgerald, Todd (13 November 2015). "Kindness Day UK: Tell us about your good deeds". men. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  5. "The Secret Millionaire - S6 - Episode 5: David Jamilly". Radio Times. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  6. Dave Robson (29 December 2011). "Secret Millionaire David "DJ" Jamilly can't keep away from Teesside". The Gazette. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  7. "Fire and steel event celebration on Teesside". BBC. 19 February 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  8. Robson, Dave (13 October 2015). "Secret Millionaire: Teesside steel will always be in my heart". gazettelive. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  9. Shelagh Parkinson (13 November 2014). "Resort bids to be 'kindness' capital of UK". The Gazette. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  10. Todd Fitzgerald (13 November 2015). "Kindness Day UK: Tell us about your good deeds". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  11. Poorna Bell (13 November 2014). "How Can Being Kinder To People Help With Loneliness?". Huffington Post. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  12. 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.
  13. Robson, Dave (15 May 2010). "Secret Millionaire David Jamilly back in Redcar". gazettelive. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  14. "ICRETH Annual Report 2011-2012" (PDF). Leeds Metropolitan University. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  15. "ICRETH Annual Report 2012-2013" (PDF). Leeds Metropolitan University. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  16. "Music mogul gets honourary doctorate from university". Daily Echo. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  17. "Honorary graduates". www.solent.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  18. "University of Sussex Kindness UK Symposium - Thursday 10th November". University of Sussex. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  19. Chappet, Marie-Claire. "How to *actually* be kind during the Coronavirus pandemic". Glamour UK. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  20. "World Kindness Day: Why 2019 is the year compassion became cool". www.msn.com. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  21. "BSc (Honours) International Events Management with Experiential Marketing". Sheffield Hallam University. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  22. "Events Management - Sheffield Hallam University". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved 16 July 2020.
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