David Jamilly Explained

David Jamilly
Birth Place:London, England
Nationality:British
Citizenship:British
Education:Highgate School, London

David Jamilly is an English social entrepreneur and humanitarian.

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

Notes and References

  1. News: Fun and games with Theme Traders. 10 June 2011. Evening Standard online. 6 January 2012.
  2. Web site: Every night is party night . The Independent. Emma Tobias. 19 August 2000. 10 June 2011 .
  3. Providing the feel good factor . Nursing Standard. 10. 47. 26–7. 14 August 1996. 10 June 2011 . 10.7748/ns.10.47.26.s41. 8868918.
    - News: Fitzgerald. Todd. 13 November 2015. Kindness Day UK: Tell us about your good deeds. 16 July 2020. Manchester Evening News.
  4. Web site: The Secret Millionaire - S6 - Episode 5: David Jamilly. 16 July 2020. Radio Times.
  5. News: Secret Millionaire David "DJ" Jamilly can't keep away from Teesside . The Gazette. Dave Robson. 29 December 2011. 10 June 2011 .
  6. Web site: Fire and steel event celebration on Teesside . BBC News. 19 February 2011. 10 June 2011 .
    - Web site: Robson. Dave. 13 October 2015. Secret Millionaire: Teesside steel will always be in my heart. 16 July 2020. gazettelive.
  7. News: Resort bids to be 'kindness' capital of UK . The Blackpool Gazette. Shelagh Parkinson. 13 November 2014. 12 May 2017 .
    - News: Kindness Day UK: Tell us about your good deeds . Manchester Evening News. Todd Fitzgerald. 13 November 2015. 10 June 2011 .
  8. News: How Can Being Kinder To People Help With Loneliness? . Huffington Post. Poorna Bell. 13 November 2014. 10 June 2011 .
  9. News: 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. 16 July 2020. 0307-1235.
    - Web site: Robson. Dave. 2010-05-15. Secret Millionaire David Jamilly back in Redcar. 16 July 2020. Teesside Live.
  10. Web site: ICRETH Annual Report 2011-2012 . Leeds Metropolitan University . 10 June 2011 . 11 September 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170911114335/http://leedsbeckett.ac.uk/-/media/files/research/icreth-docs/icreth_annual_report_2011_2012.pdf . dead .
    - Web site: ICRETH Annual Report 2012-2013 . Leeds Metropolitan University . 10 June 2011 . 11 September 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170911100315/http://leedsbeckett.ac.uk/-/media/files/research/icreth-docs/icreth_annual_report_2012_2013.pdf . dead .
  11. News: Music mogul gets honorary doctorate from university. 16 July 2020. The Daily Echo.
    - Web site: Honorary graduates. 16 July 2020. Southampton Solent University.
  12. Web site: University of Sussex Kindness UK Symposium - Thursday 10th November. 10 June 2011. University of Sussex.
    - News: Chappet. Marie-Claire. How to *actually* be kind during the Coronavirus pandemic. 16 July 2020. Glamour.
    - News: World Kindness Day: Why 2019 is the year compassion became cool. 16 July 2020. MSN.
  13. Web site: BSc (Honours) International Events Management with Experiential Marketing. 10 June 2011. Sheffield Hallam University.
    - Web site: Events Management - Sheffield Hallam University. 16 July 2020. Times Higher Education.

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