Keep the Phoenix Flying: Our 2025 Fundraiser

by Phoenix Arts Club in London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Keep the Phoenix Flying: Our 2025 Fundraiser

Total raised £1,678

£60,000 target 18 days left
2% 31 supporters
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 28th February 2025 at 10:00pm

Help Secure the Future of The Phoenix Arts Club – An Independent Home for Theatre in London's West End in 2025.

by Phoenix Arts Club in London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Help Secure the Future of The Phoenix Arts Club – An Independent Home for theatre in 2025.

For over three decades, The Phoenix Arts Club has been the beating heart of London’s independent theatre scene — a space where creativity, connection, and community thrive. Welcoming over 100,000 guests each year, hosting hundreds of shows (almost 1,000!), and proudly paying out over £3million in the last 5 years alone to creative practitioners working in all areas of live entertainment. The venue now operates as a “not for profit” Community Interest” Company (CIC), ensuring all monies are put to good use, protecting this vital space.

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Photo Credit: Cam Harle

Recovering from the pandemic, our Phoenix Arts Club successfully delivered an Arts Council England Grant, scaling up audio-visual capabilities and completing a 2 year project to support the staging of theatre: training opportunities, subsidised hires and running of our Daytime Creative Hub. 

Our aim for 2025 is to see our projects continue, but with no current funding commitments in place, and costs continuing to soar, we need your help!  Our annual "shortfall" from running the venue to its full extent each year is £125,000. Phase 1 of our 2025 fundraising efforts aims to raise £60,000 through membership and your kind donations.

So please contribute to this fundraiser by becoming a Member and receiving a perk or two to ensure this iconic venue continues to not just support, but expand its support of new works for 2025.

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Why We Need Your Support

Raising £60,000 will help us:

  • Protect a vital space for theatre-makers, cabaret artists, and the creative community.
  • Continue paying artists a fair wage ensuring revenue directly supports performers. In the last five years we've paid out over £3million to creative practitioners. We are proud to be London Living Wage Employers.
  • Expand our community work, offering a platform for emerging talent and theatre professionals. This 2025 we want to bring 10 new works of theatre from page to stage with paid research and development time, directorial, marketing and producing support, rounding off with a live 'showcase' in our Club.
  • Invest in the venue so it remains a welcoming space for you, our artistic family, including upgrading our 'backline' by installing a baby grand piano, upgrading our staging and purchasing a set of theatre specific headset microphones.

How You Can Help
By contributing to our fundraiser, you're supporting both the venue and everyone who walks through its doors, and we ensure every penny raised from membership & donations goes toward our charitable work. The raising of these much needed funds will ensure us to meet and exceed on on all we achieved in 2024.

Please take a moment to read our 2024 show highlights.

2024 HIGHLIGHTS AT THE PHOENIX ARTS CLUB

MUSICAL THEATRE & LIVE MUSIC

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Pictured: Taylor Jay Productions' Spring Awakening. Photo by Danny Kaan.

We welcomed two week long theatre productions of Musicals RENT and SPRING AWAKENING, as well as a short run of the hit off-broadway show EDGES. 

Taylor Jay Productions' week long run of TITLE OF SHOW went on to great success, transferring to The Southwark Playhouse. 

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The Scissor Sisters reunited for the first time in over ten years on The Phoenix Arts Club stage as they joined frontman Jake Shears for a special recording of the hit podcast Queer the Music.

Plus we welcomed Netflix & Broadway star Tituss Burgess' for a two week run of their work in progress show 'The Indecisive Warrior', featuring special guests TikTok star Aron The Guitar Baron and MOBO Winner Laura Mvula. 

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Pictured: Lambert Jackson Productions: Tituss Burgess. Photo Credit: Danny Kaan.

PLUS we welcomed shows including Flo & Joan's One Man Musical (transferring to the West End!),  Mickey-Jo LIVE, PULSE the Zombie Musical, a monthly late-night residencey from West End Royalty Jon Robyns, new musical YOU AND I, Tik Tok Star Henry Calvert, Emily Kitsch, Matt Bateman's from Stoke to the Spotlight, Chad St Louis, Lee Van Galeen, Karen Wilkinson, Jordan Charles, Festoon Theatre, Little Fiend the Musical, Flat Earth the Musical, My Name is Gef, RepresentAsian, The Savoy Cabaret, AKA's Staff Talent Night, Associated Studios, and to top it off the reunion for the original cast of 42nd Street & The West End Wendies Reunion.

CABARET

The Lady Ratlings Fundraiser, The British Music Hall Society's Birthday, Sarah-Louise Young, Eliza Delite Presents..., City Academy's Burlesque Showcase, London Performance Prep, Marcel Lucont's Cabaret Fantastique, Greystone Media, Stagecoach, Son of a Tutu, THE AUDITION, Joe Black, Katie Pritchard, The Trawlerman, Virgin x, Vinegar Strokes, Magician Thomas Turner, Holly Stars, Tracey Collins, Dr Sketchy, Ada Campe, Dusty Limits, Madame Chandelier, The House of Pantha, Canadh (a collaborative showcase of emerging Irish and Irish trained talent living in London), Dom Pipkin's Sweet Sounds of New Orleans, Graham Cole OBE, Robin Askwith.

COMEDY

Works in progress from the UK's leading comedians included Kevin Bridges, Al Murray, Luke Kempner Fatiha El-Ghorri, Stephen Merchant, Jack Dee, Juliette Burton, André de Freitas, Greg Davies, Ali Woods & Holly & Brooke. Grubby Little Mitts, Beyond the Palette,  Comedy Therapy, Tamara Stuart, Pitchblack Playback, Jay Rayner, Misty Moon, The Comic Strip, Tony Slattery, The Red Dwarf Reunion, Paul Chuckle and many more.

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Rewards

This project offers rewards in return for your donation. Please select a reward below.

£25 or more

Phoenix Arts Club Cabaret Perfume

Receive an exclusive cute credit sized Cabaret Perfume on your next visit to the Club! Cabaret is a very chic, glamorous and diverse fragrance. It’s an intoxicating aroma, combining florals with subtle musk undertones. You can detect notes of Honeysuckle, Tuberose & Jasmine.

£75 or more

1 Year Nightlife Membership to The Club

Enjoy entry to The Phoenix Arts Club 'post-show' from 10.30pm and all of our fantastic Late Shows.

£150 or more

1 Year Nightlife & Day Membership to The Club

Relax with a drink and dance at one of the West End’s exclusive late-night bars! Uncover the flexibility of working during the day. – Entry to the club for daytime working between 10am – 5pm Monday – Friday. – Entry to the club for you (and a guest) in the evening between 10pm – 3am. Saturday – 11pm – 3am. – Enjoy our late night theatrics, shows and parties.

£300 or more

1 Year Nightlife, Day & Shows Membership

Explore our All-Access Pass for those who want to experience the best cabaret shows in London, along with the option for daytime working and late night tipple! + Enjoy complimentary access to our in- house productions. + Two complimentary guest tickets per month to our in – house productions. + Complimentary tickets to external Cabaret shows (limited member tickets available per performance)

£500 or more

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"Are You On The List?" Limited Edition Print

Buy an ORIGINAL! For £500, you can secure a strictly Limited Edition, numbered print of "Are you on the list?" by Illustrator Mark Reeve, featuring twenty famous faces that have visited The Phoenix Arts Club. Celebrating some of The Phoenix's best stories, from the time The Arctic Monkeys were mistakenly turned away to Tim Minchin playing an impromptu set at the piano. Printed on A2 high-quality art paper and only 100 in the World.

£600 or more

Theatre Seat Dedication + 1 Year Membership

A Theatre Seat Dedication is a heartfelt and lasting way for you to leave your mark on the venue while contributing to its future. Personalized Plaque: A dedicated brass plaque with the donor's name (or a chosen message) affixed to the back of a theatre seat.

£1,000 or more

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Signature Cocktail Naming & Creation Class

Name a signature cocktail after yourself or someone you admire, to be featured on the Members' Lounge Menu. Enjoy a cocktail creation session with our Head Bartender.

£1,000 or more

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"Are You On The List?" HAND SIGNED Print

For £1,000, you can secure a hand-signed and numbered print of "Are you on the List?" by Illustrator Mark Reeve, celebrating over twenty famous faces that have visited The Phoenix Arts Club. Professionally framed and only 20 available.

£2,500 or more

Become a Lifetime Member of The Phoenix Arts Club

Become a Lifetime Member of The Phoenix Arts Club and receive all the benefits of our Nightlife, Day & Shows Membership for life!

£5,000 or more

Become a Phoenix Community Champion Show Producer

Help take one of our shows from idea to stage and have your name listed as a Community Champion Producer in return, recognising your generous contribution. Meet the cast after a performance with a drink in hand, attend a workshop and receive VIP tickets for the evening and a souvenir program.

£50,000 or more

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Headline Venue Sponsorship for 1 Year

The Phoenix Arts Club proudly supported by *insert name* Your company name/logo featured prominently across branding for 12 months. Exclusive Event Access: 20 VIP tickets per year for clients & employees. Venue Branding: Signage included at the entrance and on our video wall pre-show. Digital Presence: Logo featured on the website, show programs, and email campaigns. Discuss this package email: [email protected]

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