The Pho3nix Foundation brings its Sport With Purpose Charity Gala to The Peninsula London on Friday 20 November 2026, hosted by James Corden.
The Pho3nix Foundation holds its Sport With Purpose gala at The Peninsula London in Belgravia on Friday 20 November 2026. James Corden hosts the dinner, at which Olympic and world champions raise money to put children into sport.
The Kulczyk family, the Polish industrial dynasty whose own charitable foundation was established in 2013, set up the Pho3nix Foundation to get children into sport and keep them there.
Within four years its Pho3nix Kids programmes had reached more than half a million participants across eight countries. The case is one of public health: a child who plays sport before 13 has a far higher chance of being active at 40. The foundation funds coaching, equipment and events where none exist.
The athletes attend because the foundation puts them in front of children, and several of them run their own programmes with it. Proceeds go to those programmes rather than to a general fund.
Scottie Pippen, Sir Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Chris Froome, Dame Laura Kenny, Lawrence Dallaglio, Alastair Cook, Rebecca Adlington and both Brownlee brothers are on the published guest list.