# 10 festive season swims supporting UK good causes - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/01/04/10-festive-season-swims-supporting-uk-good-causes/ - Published: 2024-01-04T15:22:06+00:00 - Author: Melanie May **Every Christmas and New Year, hardy souls around the country take a cold sea dip, often to raise funds for local charities. Here’s 10 of the charity swims that took place this festive season supporting a multitude of good causes. ** #### Hunstanton Christmas Day Swim The Hunstanton Christmas Day Swim dates back to 1954 and is organised by [Hunstanton and District Round Table](https://www.hunstantonroundtable.com/). The swim focuses on supporting local charities, and this time saw 160 people take part in fancy dress, cheered on by some 2,000. Charities supported included [The Norfolk Hospice Tapping House](https://www.norfolkhospice.org.uk/), King’s Lynn Night Shelter, Autism West Norfolk, NCI Brancaster, West Norfolk Deaf Association, and Hunstanton Primary School. ## Advertisement --- #### Porthcawl Christmas Morning Swim The 58^(th) annual [Porthcawl Christmas Morning Swim](http://christmasswim.org/) took place on Christmas Day. The sold out event saw every swimmer receive a mug, sponsored by Noah Recycling, and charities supported included headline charity [Kidney Wales](https://kidneywales.cymru/), Cancer Research Wales, Family Fund and more. --- #### Southwold Christmas Day Swim The [Southwold Christmas Day Swim](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZWAw5Ag1ls), organised by Blyth Valley Rotary, has so far raised £4687.75 for its chosen charities. Southwold RNLI, [Sole Bay Care Fund](https://www.solebaycarefund.uk/) and SERV Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Blood Bikes. --- #### Tenby Boxing Day Swim [This event](https://www.tenbyboxingdayswim.co.uk/) takes place on Tenby’s North Beach on Boxing Day morning and collects donations to give to a number of charities. In 2023, they included [Tenby RNLI](https://rnli.org/find-my-nearest/lifeboat-stations/tenby-lifeboat-station), [Tenby Surflink](https://tenbysurflink.wordpress.com/about/), [Tenby Sea Cadets](https://www.sea-cadets.org/tenby), [St John’s Ambulance Wales](https://www.sjacymru.org.uk/) – people also have the option of raising funds for a charity of their choice. 1,050 swimmers took part. There’s also a fancy dress parade, and swimmers get a medal. --- #### Secret World Wildlife Rescue New Year’s Day Dip Secret World Wildlife Rescue asks people to join its [New Year’s Day Dip](https://events.secretworld.org/event/new-years-day-dip-2024/) in Clevedon Marine Lake, near Bristol. People can sign up for free and raise sponsorship money, or pay a £5 registration fee to take part. --- #### RNLI Porthdinllaen Trochfa Dydd Calan/New Year’s Day Dip 2024 Taking place at Morfa Nefyn, Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales, this New Year’s Day Dip raises funds for [RNLI Porthdinllaen](https://rnli.org/find-my-nearest/lifeboat-stations/porthdinllaen-lifeboat-station). --- > Pics from the fantastic [#dipforclic](https://twitter.com/hashtag/dipforclic?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > [#NewYearsDay2024](https://twitter.com/hashtag/NewYearsDay2024?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > were you there? Love to see your pics or vids. [@Love_Newquay](https://twitter.com/Love_Newquay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > [@Tourism_Newquay](https://twitter.com/Tourism_Newquay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [@AndyscafeNQY](https://twitter.com/AndyscafeNQY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > [@NewquaySLSC](https://twitter.com/NewquaySLSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [@BBCCornwall](https://twitter.com/BBCCornwall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > [@LoveCornwallUK](https://twitter.com/LoveCornwallUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/GdgXJvHwry](https://t.co/GdgXJvHwry) > — NewquayYoungLivesvCancer (@NewquayCLIC) [January 2, 2024](https://twitter.com/NewquayCLIC/status/1742140901986619558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) #### Dip for CLIC The annual Cornwall event Dip for CLIC took place for 10^(th) time this year and saw more than 500 swimmers take part at Newquay Harbour, raising money for [Young Lives vs Cancer](https://www.younglivesvscancer.org.uk/). So far it has raised £4,500 for the charity. --- #### Lyme Lunge The annual [Lyme Lunge](https://lovelymeregis.co.uk/events/lyme_lunge) is a fancy dress swim which takes place on New Year’s Day and sees hundreds take part. Organised by Lyme Regis Rotary Club, this year’s main beneficiaries are [The Alzheimer’s Society](https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/) and Asthma + Lung UK alongside Rotary charities. --- > 🌊Dive into the excitement of our [#NewYearsDayDip](https://twitter.com/hashtag/NewYearsDayDip?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > with the freshly posted photos on Facebook here [https://t.co/xJS1nUb4dk](https://t.co/xJS1nUb4dk) > 📸✨ We were blessed with good weather in the morning and had an absolute blast! > Proudly sponsored by [@WMTestateagents](https://twitter.com/WMTestateagents?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > [pic.twitter.com/SeIdz2jEsp](https://t.co/SeIdz2jEsp) > — St Margaret's Hospice Care (@st_marg) [January 2, 2024](https://twitter.com/st_marg/status/1742138798576676947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) #### St Margaret’s Hospice New Year’s Day Dip Two hundred people took a New Year’s Day Dip at Minehead to raise funds for [St Margaret’s Hospice](https://www.st-margarets-hospice.org.uk/home-page). The event is annual, and this year aims to raise £10,000 to pay for 100 specialist community nurses. --- #### Sheringham New Year’s Day Dip The New Year’s Day Dip at Sheringham in Norfolk saw the event return for the first time since pre-pandemic. Around 400 people took part, and the event raised around £2,000, which will be shared between the [RNLI](https://rnli.org/) and other local charities. * **[Burns Night supper raises £45k for Scottish charity, plus more fundraising event news](https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/01/31/burns-night-supper-raises-45k-for-scottish-charity-plus-more-fundraising-event-news/)**( 31 January 2024) * **[Run 4 Wales chooses MND Association as charity of the year – & more fundraising event news](https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/03/13/run-4-wales-chooses-mnd-association-as-charity-of-the-year-more-fundraising-event-news/)**( 13 March 2024) * **[Wonderland ball raises over £5k for Cheshire charity, & more event news](https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/04/08/wonderland-ball-raises-over-5k-for-cheshire-charity-more-event-news/)**( 8 April 2024)