Party People

Most people will know David Jamilly from his appearance on C4’s ‘Secret Millionaire’ when he left behind his luxury lifestyle in London and travelled to Redcar in Yorkshire to experience a week with some of the great charities working in Teeside.

His book ‘Party People’ tells the journey of how he reached the priviledged position of being able to give away hundreds of thousands of pounds on ‘Secret Millionaire’ through building a successful party planning business with his sister Kim.

Now the UK’s leading party planning and prop hire company, Theme Traders has been running since 1989 and ‘Party People’ takes the reader on an amusing journey through some of the highs (organising the Queen’s 80th birthday party) as well as the lows (hiding in the toilet whilst a party to honour and celebrate F1’s Nigel Mansell goes horribly wrong).

The book begins with a fascinating insight into Victor Jamilly’s (David’s father) store called Laurence Corner at London’s Euston station and David and Kim’s time there learning the ropes and soon branching out to be one of the first players in the party planning business.

What’s refreshing about David’s autobiography is the consistent philanthropic thread running through the book. In a time where most people just have their heads down, buried in their own world of riding out the recession David really steps up to the mark. He makes sure that his parties for children in hospitals are just as important as organising a £200k celebration for a wealthy Arab client.

Read ‘Party People’ on your Kindle, iPad or even better pick up a copy from a bookshop and be inspired by one of the UK’s most successful family businesses.

‘Party People’ is available in advance from Amazon.co.uk and WHSmith.co.uk and then available from all major book stores from 4th June 2011.