
Welcome to the Swimathon Foundation, the charity behind Swimathon, the world’s biggest annual pool based fundraising swim, and other swimming campaigns and activities including Open Water Swimathon, School Swimathon and Marathon Swims.
The Swimathon Foundation and its Charity Partners – currently Marie Curie and Cancer Research UK – work together to promote their charitable activities through the promotion of and participation in Swimathon events and in doing so raise funds from members of the public in support of their activities.
The Swimathon Foundation also supports smaller organisations that are involved with local swimming projects through its Community Grants scheme. In the past a variety of initiatives, including swimming programmes for those with special needs, participation schemes by youth groups, clubs for the elderly, swimming clubs and disability groups have all benefitted from its support.
As the UK continues to deal with COVID-19, the Swimathon Foundation is aware that the aquatics community faces a hugely challenging time. In response to this in June 2020, the Swimathon Foundation launched a COVID-19 Relief Fund which provided over £50,000 of grant funding to help support those small swimming and aquatics organisations which form the bedrock of the swimming and aquatics community across the UK to deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Swimathon Foundation has now launched its second COVID-19 Relief Fund and applications are live until until Friday 26 February 2021.
Latest News
Government Roadmap Announcement – Our Response
The Swimathon Foundation is delighted to see the proposed reopening of swimming pools included in the Government’s roadmap out of Covid-19, with a staggered return taking place in the coming months..... read more
Grant Buckley's Story
In Sept 2019 my Mum, June Cooper, and my Step-Father Brian were in Tenerife, they’d been loads of times, about 35 times..... read more
Our February Update
I’m really pleased that the Swimathon Foundation were able to help so many members of the swimming community through last year’s Covid-19 Relief Fund, where we distributed £50,000 of grants to those most in need. But unfortunately, the hard times hav..... read more
My Hopes For 2021 – An Update from our Chair
Anthony Kendal OBE, Chair of the Swimathon Foundation, sums up his thoughts and hopes for Swimathon, fundraising and swimming in 2021...... read more
Second COVID-19 Relief Fund Launched To Support Aquatics Community
The Swimathon Foundation has today launched a second Covid-19 Relief Fund to help the swimming and aquatics community cope with the ongoing impact and effects of the pandemic...... read more