Stephen Brooks, Anthony Claydon, Tim Budgen and Nick Jaye present Amanda Heaton of the Royal Marsden a cheque for the sum of £30,000.		Fighting for Charity;  the Instructors of PMA just before they each fought 120 students in June 2005.		Phoenix Senior Instructors, receiving a Royal Marsden Fundraising award certificate from Nicholas Owen.

Phoenix Schools of Martial Arts has been raising funds for charities ever since the association was formed in 1985. Stephen Brooks has both instigated and guided the association`s efforts to raise money for major charitable organisations such as The Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign, Children in Need and Dr Bernardo`s.

At Phoenix Martial Arts we quite literally fight for charity. In 1987 Stephen Brooks fought 101 black belts raising one thousand pounds. This was to be the foundation upon which Phoenix has continued to raise large, life-changing sums of money over the years for charity.

We have raised a total of one hundred and eight thousand pounds for the Royal Marsden Cancer campaign with our most recent Charity Fight in July 2007, raising a magnificent fourty thousand pounds. Our challenge for 2007 was to break all our records and raise over fourty thousand pounds for this very worthy cause and we did it smashing our previous record set in 2005 by ten thousand pounds! It was a proud moment in September 2007 when Amanda Heaton presented Stephen Brooks with The Royal Marsden's Platinum Certificate for raising one hundred and eight thousand pounds in the past eight years.

A quote from a letter to Stephen Brooks dated 12th September 2007 from Amanda Heaton reads, 

“We are so very impressed by the amazing dedication and enthusiasm of the Phoenix Martial Arts Instructors and team, having organised and carried out an extremely successful event, and broken your previous record in raising over £40,000! All this and 120 fights in one day – We think you are all totally awesome!”

Amanda Heaton
Fundraising and Community Development Manager. The Royal Marsden Hospital


We all know the great  effort that goes into raising these sums of money. It is the commitment and generosity - in both time and money from instructors, students, families and friends - that makes all our efforts worthwhile.

Thank you to all who support our Charity Fights - and thank you for your generous donations.

Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign

BBC Children in Need Appeal 1999
Phoenix donate £ 6885.45 supporting the BBC Children in Need Appeal. »»»

The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
A letter of thanks from M J Davidson of the Multiple Sclerosis Society »»»

St Margarets Church
A thank you letter from the Rev.J.Goodden of St Margaret`s Church »»»