22 Miles. 12 Weeks. Your Pool.
11th September - 4th December
Swim the channel in your local pool and help to raise money for people affected by spinal cord injury.
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What’s involved?
Swim the distance of the English Channel and raise money for people paralysed by Spinal Cord Injury. Sign up on your own or in a team and take on the 22 miles in your own time!
When and where can I take part?
Take part in the challenge between 11th September and 4th December, in your own time, at your local pool... anywhere you like.
Why swim for Aspire?
Every eight hours someone is paralysed by a Spinal Cord Injury and there is currently no cure. Sign up today and help make a difference!
Rise to the challenge
Anyone and everyone can help us to support people affected by spinal cord injury. It doesn’t matter how you swim, it doesn’t matter where you swim. The important thing is that you pull up your costume, pull on your swimming cap and get in the water! Last year our Channel swimmers raised over £580,000! This year we want you to help us do even better. Come on, dive in. The only thing in your way is water.
Don’t know the length of your local pool? An average pool length is 25m but if you’re not sure, contact your local pool
You'll need to swim quite a few lengths
in total and a few less per week
Grab yourself a fundraising prize from our partners, Zoggs!
Thanks to our amazing partners Zoggs UK, we’ve got loads of prizes to give away throughout the challenge. From a medal to fantastic Zoggs goodies – the more you raise, the bigger the prize you’ll receive.
See the prizes
Challenge yourself, and others
Watch your place on our Leaderboard rise as you swim those lengths and start your fundraising… and check out where your friends are too!
Check the leaderboard
The more you raise, the more of a difference you’ll make
When you sign up for the challenge we’ll set you up a JustGiving page, so it’s easy to spread the word and get fundraising!
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