Swimming

Low impact and highly demanding, swimming events challenge participants and inspire sponsors.

If your local swimming baths are holding a sponsored swim or you fancy swimming the channel, the WaterAid events team would love to welcome you.

Channel swim

Nicola Joyce swam the English Channel to raise money for WaterAid.

"After approximately 51,000 arm-strokes, 26 miles, and 14 hrs 15 minutes of swimming, I climbed out of the sea on to the beach near Wissant, France: a Channel Swimmer.

"I'd started in the dark at 3:20 on Saturday 24 July from Abbott's Cliff near Dover, and swum through stinging jellyfish, busy shipping lanes, injuries, hallucinations and a strong tide before I was able to stand on the sandy beach in France. 

"I'd trained for almost two years for this swim, and was as prepared as I could be, but factors like the weather and tides always held the potential to stop me from making it.

"After just over 12 hours of swimming, I was nearly there. However, it would take me over two hours longer to get to the beach because the tide turned against us and the wind picked up, making progress almost impossible."
 
Whatever challenge you set, please let us know about your plans as soon as possible by completing an event questionnaire ( 124K) and returning it to us at events@wateraid.org or by post to the address at the base of this page.

Thank you for your support!