Distances: 1km, 2.5km, 5km, 15km

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Distances: 1km, 2.5km, 5km, 10km

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Take part in Crisis Icebreaker, a cold water challenge to help end homelessness. Create your own chilly challenge; from a dip-a-day in your favourite outdoor swimming spot, a group swim or visit your local lido to embrace to the chill. Crisis also has community events at London and Oxfordshire lidos in January and Swansea in February, acting as the perfect way to kick off 2025 and connect with like-minded people, all whilst fundraising for Crisis. 18 Jan – Parliament Hill19 Jan – Bicester Hotel Golf and Spa25 Jan – Tooting Bec Lido23 Feb – Caswell Bay, Swansea, South WalesAll winter – Icebreaker Challenge DIY (choose your challenge)

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Completing numerous challenges over the years Adventurous Swimmer have introduced their own to help encourage others to swim throughout winter. Swim the length of your chosen UK lake in a space of four months in any outdoor unheated setting and you can get a badge or your own thermal flask. Running from 1st November 2024 to 1st March 2025, water temperature is not important, the aim is simply to swim the distances: ·         Winter-mere: 18km ·         Ulls-winter: 12km ·         Cold-iston: 8.5km ·         Chill-mere: 6km ·         Bitter-mere: 2km Don’t forget – this is an open water swim challenge and water temperatures drop rapidly in winter, respect the cold water and stay safe. Both wetsuits and skins are welcome.

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Take on a challenge like no other as you swim a marathon or half marathon distance over 12 weeks. Whether you’re already a swimming fanatic or you’re looking to dip your toe in for the first time, take your health, wellbeing and fitness to the next level – and raise funds for the almost 1 in 10 people who don’t have clean drinking water close to home. How you do it is completely up to you: break your swim challenge down to weekly laps, or reach your distance over a few swims. What’s important is you have fun, enjoy the water and raise some money to bring the joy of clean drinking water to others around the world! REGISTER YOUR INTEREST FOR 2024!

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Throughout June, join Help for Heroes for Operation Swim. Simply choose your favourite swimming spot and swim the length of one, two, three or all of the Normandy beaches.

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Zoggs have joined forces with Her Spirit, the first community sport and fitness app, to bring you the Swim For Her Challenge in aid of Breast Cancer Now. 🏊🏼‍♀️ 4 week challenge throughout June 🏊🏼‍♀️River, Ocean, Lake or pool, choose your distance 5 miles, 7.5 miles, 11 miles or even pick your own! 🏊🏼‍♀️Download the Her Spirit app to sign up for Swim For Her. 🏊🏼‍♀️ Entry Cap and finisher medal 🏊🏼‍♀️ Support and tips from Zoggs ambassadors and swimfluencers Join with your own epic Swim for Her challenge. This is an inclusive challenge where you can accumulate your chosen distance between 1st June and 30th June.

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Challenge yourself to a Winter Dip this December. Every winter, people up and down the UK embrace the thrill of cold water swimming. This December, we’re asking you to join in and raise funds for life-changing clean water. Choose your challenge; dip each day of December, choose a week to take the plunge, or select your favourite day in December to face the chill! Why not make it a group challenge and nominate some fellow swimmers to join you? Raise over £20 and grab yourself a free Winter Dip swim cap.

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Take part in our winter challenge – discover well-being and awaken your blue mind.   ‘Awaken your blue mind’ has grown each year and now has over 100 challenges to choose from.   The idea is you complete 21 activities (you can repeat challenges) over the winter months, starting on  27th October 2024 and ending on 30th March 2025.  Complete the challenge and receive your reward  – the ‘Awaken your blue mind’ badge.   ​All proceeds will go to the Bluetonic charity, so make a difference to your life and to the lives of others. You can take part in this year’s Awaken Your Blue Mind challenge by clicking here

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Join thousands of others swimming 8K this October to help the children at Great Ormond Street Hospital. There are three easy steps to get set up: For questions please email facebookchallenge@gosh.org or call 020 3841 3131.

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