There was no better way than to start the Christmas celebrations than the Phoenix Fun Events Christmas Charity Lunch, 28th November 2025 at the Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington High Street, London.

During 2025, we raised a staggering £25,000 for each of our 2025 charities- Meath Epilepsy and Jigsaw in Thornbury bringing the total raised by Phoenix to £200,000 since 2022.

The action-packed day included, Gyles Brandreth our guest speaker, singing by Maddy Fleming, the True & False game, a raffle, an auction and over 20 stalls providing a wonderful Christmas shopping experience for our guests.

So many people to thank including our guest speaker, Gyles Brandreth, Angela Rippon our host who always makes sure that everything goes smoothly, Bob Bevan for the True & False, Maddy for her singing, Neil Durden Smith for helping with the raffle, Felix Francis our fabulous auctioneer, Annie Parsons for organising our amazing shopping stalls, the stallholders for providing a fabulous Christmas shopping day, Rachel and her team for the human fruit machine game, Nina Wilkins for the table captains gifts , Jonathan Fry for the table gifts, Sheila Miller for the wallets and a huge thanks to all the donors of our auction and raffle prizes for which the Phoenix Fun Events team are extremely grateful.

This event would not be possible without the hard work and commitment of the Phoenix Fun Events team Angela Rippon, Marilyn Fry, Chrissie Walker-Hebborn, Debbie Gregory, Katie Plews, Mark Plant, Samantha Gladwell, Nina Wilkins, Sue Simons, Veronica Ralley, Sheila Miller and Suzanne Blakey.

Below is a selection of photographs taken at the event. If you’d like to see more photographs, please view the Phoenix Fun Events Account on Facebook. 

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