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'''David Jamilly''' is an English [[social entrepreneur]].
'''David Jamilly''' is an English [[social entrepreneur]] and [[humanitarian]].


==Business career==
==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.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fun and games with Theme Traders|url=http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/attractions/fun-and-games-with-theme-traders-7305345.html|accessdate=3 February 2017|work=Evening Standard online|date=6 January 2012}}</ref>
David Jamilly co-founded Theme Traders with his sister Kim Einhorn. Theme Traders is a [[London]] based event management, party planning and [[Theatrical property|prop]] hire company launched in 1989.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fun and games with Theme Traders|url=http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/attractions/fun-and-games-with-theme-traders-7305345.html|accessdate=2011-06-10|work=Evening Standard online|date=6 January 2012}}</ref> The company grew out of their work as children's entertainers, when they began to receive requests from parents to organise entire parties.<ref>{{cite web|title=Every night is party night |publisher=Independent|author=Emma Tobias|date=2000-08-19|accessdate=2011-06-10 |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/every-night-is-party-night-711980.html}}</ref>


==Humanitarian Activities==
==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]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Providing the feel good factor |publisher=Nursing standard|author=|date=1996-08-14|accessdate=2011-06-10 |url=http://journals.rcni.com/doi/pdfplus/10.7748/ns.10.47.26.s41}}</ref>
Jamilly founded [[Pod Children's Charity]]<ref>{{cite web|title=POD Children's Charity |publisher=Internet|author=POD Charitable Trust|accessdate=2011-05-26 |url=http://www.podcharity.org.uk/}}</ref> for children in hospital. Pod Children's Charity started in 1988 and first entertained sick children at [[Great Ormond Street Hospital]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children |publisher=Internet|author=Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children|accessdate=2011-05-26 |url=http://www.gosh.nhs.uk/about_gosh/}}</ref> Pod arranges over 2500 performances a year and has entertained over a million children in children's hospital wards and hospices throughout the [[United Kingdom]].


David Jamilly appeared on the [[Secret Millionaire]]<ref>{{cite web|title=The Secret Millionaire David Jamilly |publisher=Internet|author=Channel 4|accessdate=2011-05-26 |url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-secret-millionaire/episode-guide/series-7/episode-5/}}</ref> in 2010 in [[Redcar]] in an extended programme, 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,<ref>{{cite web|title=Redcar Community College |publisher=Internet|author=Redcar Community College|accessdate=2011-05-26 |url=http://www.redcarcc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65&Itemid=54/}}</ref> Zoe’s Place<ref>{{cite web|title=Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice |publisher=Internet|author=Zoe’s Place|accessdate=2011-05-26 |url=http://www.zoes-place.org.uk/}}</ref> and Redcar Amateur Boxing Association.<ref>{{cite web|title=Coatham Memorial Hall Association |publisher=Internet|author=Coatham Memorial Hall Association|accessdate=2011-05-26 |url=http://www.cmha.co.uk/}}</ref> David was one of the co-founders of the Redcar [[Fire and Steel Festival]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Fire and Steel Festival |publisher=Internet|author=Fire and Steel Festival|accessdate=2011-05-26 |url=http://www.fireandsteelfestival.com/}}</ref> alongside Frankie Wales, a festival which celebrated Teesside’s heritage of 150 years of steel making.
David Jamilly appeared on the [[Secret Millionaire]] in 2010 in [[Redcar]] in an extended programme, 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Secret Millionaire David "DJ" Jamilly can't keep away from Teesside |publisher=The Gazette|author=Dave Robson|date=2011-12-29|accessdate=2011-06-10 |url=http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/secret-millionaire-david-dj-jamilly-3678705}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fire and steel event celebration on Teesside |publisher=BBC|author=|date=2011-02-19|accessdate=2011-06-10 |url=http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tees-12514531}}</ref>
David Jamilly founded The Good Deeds Organisation<ref>{{cite web|title=The Good Deeds Organisation|publisher=Internet|author=The Good Deeds Organisation|accessdate=2011-05-26 |url=http://www.thegooddeedsorganisation.com/}}</ref> in 2005 which promotes global good deeds and kindness and went on to co-launch and celebrate [[Kindness Day UK]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Kindness Day UK|publisher=Internet|author=Kindness Day UK|accessdate=2011-05-26 |url=http://www.kindnessdayuk.com/}}</ref> 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]].
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]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Resort bids to be ‘kindness’ capital of UK |publisher=The Gazette|author=Shelagh Parkinson|date=2014-11-13|accessdate=2017-05-12 |url=http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/resort-bids-to-be-kindness-capital-of-uk-1-8540837}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Kindness Day UK: Tell us about your good deeds |publisher=Manchester Evening News|author=Todd Fitzgerald|date=2015-11-13|accessdate=2011-06-10 |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/kindness-day-uk-tell-your-10436091}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web|title=How Can Being Kinder To People Help With Loneliness? |publisher=Huffington Post|author=Poorna Bell|date=2014-11-13|accessdate=2011-06-10 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/13/national-kindness-day-uk-_n_6151758.html?1415890523&}}</ref>


==Educational activities==
==Kindness UK==
He sat on the [[Advisory Board]] for the International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism and Hospitailty (ICRETH) 2011 - 2013 based at [[Leeds Metropolitan University]].<ref>{{cite web|title=ICRETH Annual Report 2011-2012 |publisher=Leeds Metropolitan University|author=|accessdate=2011-06-10 |url=http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/-/media/files/research/icreth-docs/icreth_annual_report_2011_2012.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=ICRETH Annual Report 2012-2013 |publisher=Leeds Metropolitan University|author=|accessdate=2011-06-10 |url=http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/-/media/files/research/icreth-docs/icreth_annual_report_2012_2013.pdf}}</ref>
In 2011 David Jamilly founded [[Kindness UK]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Kindness UK|publisher=Internet|author=Kindness UK|accessdate=2011-11-04 |url=http://www.kindnessuk.com/}}</ref> 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.


Jamilly was made an [[Honorary Doctor]] of Business by [[Southampton Solent University]], awarded 22 November 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=David Jamilly awarded honorary degree|publisher=Cision|author=|accessdate=2011-06-10 |url=http://news.cision.com/southampton-solent-university/r/david-jamilly-awarded-honorary-degree,c9504383}}</ref>
==Honorary Posts==
Jamilly was appointed a Visiting Fellow of [[Sheffield Hallam University]] June 2014.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}


He sat on the Advisory Board for the International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism and Hospitailty (ICRETH) 2011 - 2013 based at Leeds Metropolitan University.<ref>{{cite web|title=Leeds Metropolitan University |publisher=Internet|author=Leeds Metropolitan University|accessdate=2011-05-26 |url=http://www.lmu.ac.uk/international/events/index.htm/}}</ref>
David Jamilly funded Kindness UK Symposium at the [[University of Sussex]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Sussex Kindness UK Symposium - Thursday 10th November|publisher=University of Sussex|author=|accessdate=2011-06-10 |url=http://www.sussex.ac.uk/internal/doctoralschool/connections/2016-17/september/kindness}}</ref>


Jamilly was made an Honorary Doctor of Business<ref>{{cite web|title=David Jamilly Awarded Honorary Degree |publisher=Internet|author=Southampton Solent University |accessdate=2013-11-25 |url=http://www.solent.ac.uk/news/news-articles/2013/david-jamilly.aspx}}</ref> by Southampton Solent University, awarded 22 November 2013.
He was also a guest speaker at [[Sheffield Hallam University]].<ref>{{cite web|title=BSc (Honours) International Events Management with Experiential Marketing|publisher=Sheffield Hallam University|author=|accessdate=2011-06-10 |url=https://www.shu.ac.uk/study-here/find-a-course/bsc-honours-international-events-management-with-experiential-marketing-fulltime}}</ref>


==Books by David Jamilly==
==Books by David Jamilly==

Revision as of 21:40, 10 June 2017

David Jamilly
BornLondon, England
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipBritish
EducationHighgate School London

David Jamilly is an English social entrepreneur and humanitarian.

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]

David Jamilly appeared on the Secret Millionaire in 2010 in Redcar in an extended programme, 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.[4]

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.[5]

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.[6][7]

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.[8]

Educational activities

He sat on the Advisory Board for the International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism and Hospitailty (ICRETH) 2011 - 2013 based at Leeds Metropolitan University.[9][10]

Jamilly was made an Honorary Doctor of Business by Southampton Solent University, awarded 22 November 2013.[11]

David Jamilly funded Kindness UK Symposium at the University of Sussex in 2016.[12]

He was also a guest speaker at Sheffield Hallam University.[13]

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 2011-06-10.
  2. ^ Emma Tobias (2000-08-19). "Every night is party night". Independent. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
  3. ^ "Providing the feel good factor". Nursing standard. 1996-08-14. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
  4. ^ Dave Robson (2011-12-29). "Secret Millionaire David "DJ" Jamilly can't keep away from Teesside". The Gazette. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
  5. ^ "Fire and steel event celebration on Teesside". BBC. 2011-02-19. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
  6. ^ Shelagh Parkinson (2014-11-13). "Resort bids to be 'kindness' capital of UK". The Gazette. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  7. ^ Todd Fitzgerald (2015-11-13). "Kindness Day UK: Tell us about your good deeds". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
  8. ^ Poorna Bell (2014-11-13). "How Can Being Kinder To People Help With Loneliness?". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
  9. ^ "ICRETH Annual Report 2011-2012" (PDF). Leeds Metropolitan University. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
  10. ^ "ICRETH Annual Report 2012-2013" (PDF). Leeds Metropolitan University. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
  11. ^ "David Jamilly awarded honorary degree". Cision. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
  12. ^ "University of Sussex Kindness UK Symposium - Thursday 10th November". University of Sussex. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
  13. ^ "BSc (Honours) International Events Management with Experiential Marketing". Sheffield Hallam University. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
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