Help drive change and empower more people to talk about their mental health.
For just £2 a week, you can support one person to join a mental health swim – Support our community by donating or buying our merchandise
For just £2 a week, you can support one person to join a mental health swim – Support our community by donating or buying our merchandise.
Click here to donate now.
Mental Health Swims is an award-winning, mental health peer support community. We host free, safe and inclusive swim meet ups nationwide.
We welcome anyone along to our swim meet ups and we are proud to have more than 150 swim locations UK-wide and beyond. Participants can swim, dip, paddle or toe-dip and can do what they are most comfortable with – we are firmly focused on dips, not distance and community, not competition. We have trained more than 400 volunteers to facilitate inclusive, safe and welcoming swims.
Who Are We?
We believe in empowering everyone – people of all skin colours, body shapes, ages, sexualities, genders, backgrounds and abilities to enjoy the healing power of cold water and community. Join us for a chat on the beach, a litter pick, a paddle or a swim in the shallows. We are an easy-going group that prefers short dips to long distances and puts companionship before competitive swimming
What Do I Need?
The very basics you will need are a swim suit or leggings and a t-shirt to wear in the water, followed by some warm clothes to put on afterwards and a towel. Hot drinks are a good thing to have once dressed.
You can find our more details of other things you might need and what will happen at a Mental Health Swim by clicking the button below.
Find Your Nearest Swim!
All our swims are listed on our Swim Map page – more and more swims are being added each week so please check back regularly if there is not one currently showing near you.
For each location you will find an Instagram Account (and sometimes a Facebook Group or Page) as well as a link to the our booking system to grab a space at one of our swims.