What happened in 2025 and before?

In 2025, 81 swimmers, in 23 teams, swam for 17 different charities raising a total of just over £8100. They swam a total of 1676 lengths - equivalent to just under 27 miles.

In 2024, 24 teams swam to support 18 different charities raising over £14000

In 2023, 25 teams swam for 20 different charities raising over £10700

Charities supported in 2025

• Alzheimer’s and Dementia UK
• BSE Arts Society grants for Young People
• Citizens Advice West Suffolk
• Freedom Church charities
• Guide Dogs, West Suffolk
• Icanhoe (part of Liveability)
• Ipswich Epilepsy Support group
• Lullaby Trust for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
• Marie Curie
• My Wish - Rainbow Ward
• Pitstop, Felixstowe
• Restore (BSE Women's Aid Centre)
• Samaritans BSE
• Sea Cadets BSE
• St Nicholas Hospice
• Suffolk Community Foundation

Charities supported in 2024

• Cancer Research
• Citizens Advice – West Suffolk
• Compassion – Sudbury
• Eden’s Youth Centre Project – Sudbury
• Guide Dogs – South East
• Guide Dogs – West Suffolk
• My Wish
• My Wish – Rainbow Ward
• RNLI
• Rural Coffee Caravan
• Samaritans – West Suffolk
• Sea Cadets – Bury St Edmunds
• St Nicholas Hospice
• TeiganSmile
• The Brain Tumour Charity
• Women’s Aid Centre – Bury St Edmunds
• WSH Wish Upon a Star
• Young Arts Blues (Arts Society, West Suffolk)

Charities supported in 2023

• Alzheimer’s Research
• Bury Rickshaw
• Citizens Advice – West Suffolk
• East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices
• Gatehouse
• Guide Dogs – South East
• Guide Dogs – West Suffolk
• Heart2Heart
• Lighthouse Women’s Aid
• My Wish
• Parkinson’s UK
• Riding for the Disabled – West Suffolk
• St Nicholas Hospice
• Samaritans, BSE & West Suffolk
• Suffolk Accident Rescue Service
• Suffolk Lowland Search & Rescue
• Tommy’s Baby Charity
• Sea Cadets – Bury St Edmunds
• Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal
• Young Arts Blues (Arts Society, West Suffolk)