David Jamilly
British writer
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. The company grew out of their work as children's entertainers, when they began to receive requests from parents to organise entire parties.
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.
Jamilly appeared on the Secret Millionaire in 2010. 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.
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.
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.
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