January Daily Dip
January Daily Dip 2022
Fundraising for Crisis
Story
*NEWS JUST IN! AN AMAZING ANONYMOUS DONOR WILL MATCH ALL DONATIONS UNTIL END OF JAN!!! (*UP TO £4K) If you are thinking of donating now is the time!
We should all have a place to call home. Across the UK, thousands of people will be without a home this winter. We are facing the freeze for Crisis- The UK's Homelessness Charity. Please donate here while we take our daily vigil into the cold to help end homelessness!
The January Daily Dip is in its 5th year and so far we've raised approximately £90k for homeless and displaced people. We have gone from a team of 3 to more than 30 daily dippers, all taking the plunge in just our cosies and big smiles. We'll be sharing our stories and swimming adventures over the coming weeks.
Despite living in the world’s sixth biggest economy, people are still living with no place to call their home in this country. This is terrible and we want to do what we can to change it.
Almost 100,000 households recorded as homeless at the start of 2021
- At the end of December 2020, 95,370 homeless households were living in temporary accommodation, an 8% increase in a year (an additional 7,060 households)
- Even with the eviction ban in place, tens of thousands of people were tipped into homelessness last winter - 62,250 households approached their local council and were found to be homeless or at risk of homelessness between Oct and Dec 2020.
- One in six (17%) households were placed into emergency B&Bs and hostels.
- The three most common triggers of homelessness during the period were households no longer being able to stay with families and friends (32%), the loss of a private tenancy (13%) and domestic abuse (12%).
