About The Swimarathon
For swimmers whilst having fun and enjoying their sport to help the less fortunate in our Community by Teams of up to 6 swimmers swim as a relay over 40 minutes to achieve their maximum potential of lengths of the pool swum and raising funds through obtaining sponsorship for their swim.
If you are interested to enter the event please follow the Team Entry link.
Teams can claim 50% of their sponsorship to be used to support their named and valid charitable cause.
When entering a team the team captain must enter the team via the team entry page into a time and date which is not already booked by another team.
All instructions are on the pages following.
The Rotary club will claim the 25% Gift Aid from the sponsorship money pledged therefore please indicate yes on the sponsorship form so we can submit a claim.
Our main charity for the 2025 event is Cancer Research UK & Open Road
Who has benefitted?
In the past 20 years, Swimarathon has raised over £160,000 so far.
There have been too many to list but below is a small snapshot of those who have benefitted from donations made by the club.
- The Brain Tumour Charity
- Rainbow Trust
- Homestart Essex
- Barrow Farm RDA
- Inner Wheel
- Farleigh Hospice
- Little Havens Hospice
- Action for Carers in Essex
- Various other Charities as nominated by Swimmers from the Gift Aid they earn through their supporters
Please help us to help others by becoming a:
- Corporate sponsor
- Sponsor a Swimmer
- Team captain
The aims of the Swimarathon are:
To encourage people to swim and thereby perhaps begin a healthy activity.To encourage team-building and friendship.To raise sponsorship funds for charities and good causes.
South Woodham Ferrers Pool
By holding the Swimarathon here we have not only been able to raise money for charities but also promote the pool's facilities for the larger community. This is a fun event which allows everyone to support charity at the same time.
The Rotary Swimarathon committee is dedicated to organising the event and trying to make sure that all of our supporters are well informed about it and will find it a fun event to be involved in. We have online team booking in, as well as using letter and telephone systems.
