Swim for Sharks
£1,811 raised of £5,700 target
As of June 2026
Fancy joining us for a dip?
We need you to swim for sharks! To be exact, we’d like you to swim a proportion of 5,700 miles of a Blue Sharks migratory route. Yep, that’s right 5,700 miles by the end of 2021! Are we wild – nope we just really love sharks!
We don’t want to mention the P or C word but last year was tough. For everyone. But sharks still need us. The work didn’t stop. Our supporters didn’t stop. And for this we’re truly grateful!
So…we’re asking our lovely supporters to jump in (literally) and swim for sharks this year.
The bold and beautiful Blue Shark, named for its dazzling colour, is the most- wide ranging of all sharks. They can be found worldwide, except in very cold waters (Brrrr don’t blame them!). Highly migratory, they travel in large groups. Hey, perhaps you could take a swim with friends or family?
Travelling vast distances in search of food, they carry out a clockwise migration pattern around the Atlantic. Don’t worry we won’t have you swimming in circles – unless you want to!
Blue Sharks are one of our most recent and positive success stories. For a long time they were the leading star of our No Limits? campaign. Urgently requiring science-based management, before they followed the trajectory of other unmanaged species. Then, just last year, they finally received the first ever international catch limits, which were set in the North and South Atlantic. While there's still more to do to help Blue Sharks, they provide a beacon of hope for all our other campaign species.
By the end of 2021 we want our wonderful supporters to have collectively swam 5,700 miles, raising funds for other No Limits? sharks that urgently need management.
This is a virtual event. So, anyone can get involved. Swim with friends, family, or colleagues. To take part complete the following steps:
Set up a fundraising page linking to this appeal by clicking the fundraise button (top right)
Decide on your distance and fundraising target
Pick a date for your swim
Start getting those donations in
Swim for Sharks!
You can do your distance in a swimming pool, sea, lake, or river* - you choose! Your miles will be added to the cumulative total, every £1 raised represents a mile. So, whether you swim 10 mile or 50, raise £10 or £50, it all helps!
And how’s this... if you raise over £100 we’ll send you a nifty Swim For Sharks swimming cap for your big swimming day.
Huge thanks to all our avid supporters, members, and fundraisers. We couldn’t do it without you!
Got questions? We’d love to love to hear from you - send us an email.
*Please note it’s your responsibility to ensure your safety when swimming. For swimming safety please visit the RNLI website.
Banner image: Blue Shark © Tomas Kotouc/Shutterstock
Supporters (95)
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Katie Pullen-Rowland £10.20
+ £2.50 Gift AidGood luck little shark Katie and the boys
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Ramona Bates £10.20
Good luck Poppy! Hope to see you all soon. Love Ramona, Dave, Grace and Isla xxxx
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Holly Frizzell £10.00
+ £2.50 Gift AidGood luck Poppy!
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Maxine Rigby £5.00
Good luck Poppy.That's a long way you are swimming. Well done for wanting to protect the sharks too
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Alicia Bentley £10.20
+ £2.50 Gift AidGood Luck Poppy! From Roman, Dan and Alicia
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Pete Wort £25.50
Good luck Poppy You’re raising money for a great cause. Good luck! Pete & Sian xx
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Ben Tew £10.20
Great idea and best of luck.
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Kimberly Springhall £10.20
+ £2.50 Gift AidGood luck Poppy! X
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Susan Mumby £10.00
+ £2.50 Gift AidGood luck 4DD, you can do it!!
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Natalie Hewitt £5.10
+ £1.25 Gift AidWell done Annabelle and all of 4DD!
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Chris Hewitt £5.00
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Anonymous £5.00
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Hannah Thorpe £5.00
+ £1.25 Gift AidWell done 4DD!!
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Margaret, Edward Wallis ,Davies £20.40
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Kat Bilbrough £20.40
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Luke Walker £10.20
+ £2.50 Gift AidWell done everyone.
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Anonymous £20.00
+ £5.00 Gift AidGo for it 4DD! You saved the bees at school, now help save the sharks!!
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Sally Hansell £20.40
+ £5.00 Gift AidGood luck Will (and all the kids taking part), we are really proud of you xx
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Adam Reynolds £20.40
+ £5.00 Gift AidGood luck Noah and strawberry fields
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Colin Mitchell £10.20
Good Luck Jax.
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Emma Kennedy £5.10
+ £1.25 Gift AidWell done 4DD, fabulous effort! Love Mrs Kennedy x
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Kat Bilbrough £20.40
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Tim Bradley £5.10
+ £1.25 Gift AidWell done 4DD - very important work. I am really proud of you!
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Rachel Jackson £5.00
+ £1.25 Gift AidSmash it kids
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Jenny Hiorns £10.00
+ £2.50 Gift AidDon’t play in the park, do a swim a save a shark!!!!
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Charlotte Halstead £6.00
+ £1.50 Gift AidAlfie H: from Dad and Charlotte, Nana and Grandad and Debra and Ian. Good luck! xx
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Anonymous £10.20
+ £2.50 Gift AidYou can do it Noah x
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Sue Smithson £5.00
+ £1.25 Gift AidGood luck
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Leanne Smithson £20.40
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Isobel Birkinshaw £5.00
+ £1.25 Gift Aid
