Aspire Swimming Challenges 2017

22 Miles. 12 Weeks. Your Pool.

11^th September - 4^th December

Swim the channel in your local pool and help to raise money for people affected by spinal cord injury.

What's involved in the swimming challenge?

Swim the distance of the English Channel for charity 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! The swimming challenge is achievable for all ages and fitness levels; weve previously welcomed families, work offices and children.

When and where can I take part in the Aspire Channel Swim?

Take part in the swimming challenge between 11th September and 4th December 2017, in your own time, at your local pool... anywhere you like. There is no need to travel far for our charity swim; we understand the importance of fitting the challenge around your day to day life. You can feel good at little cost or time spared, win!

Why swim for Charity?

Every eight hours someone is paralysed by a Spinal Cord Injury and there is currently no cure. By signing up today for the Aspire swimming challenge you can guarantee you'll be making a difference! What's even better, you'll be having fun, keeping fit and destressing at the same time, sounds ideal!

Rise to Our Swimming Challenge

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Anyone and everyone can get involved in our UK swimming challenge, helping 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 charity swimmers raised over £580,000! This year we want you to help us do even better. Come on, dive in and embrace the swimming challenge. The only thing in your way is water.

Pool length (metres)

Challenge length (weeks)

Calculate

Don't know the length of your local pool? An average pool length is 25m but if you’re not sure, contact your local swimming pool.

You'll need to swim quite a few lengths
in total and a few less per week

READY. SET.

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 Leader board rise as you swim those lengths and start you are 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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