Swimming is a basic survival skill and all children and adults should have the chance to swim. It is also a proven way to overcome mental, emotional and physical health challenges. My children have developed greater resilience though swimming and I am so proud of them.

Swim Tayka's mission is to give disadvantaged communities around the world access to swimming teachers who can not only provide the life skills of swimming, but create a legacy for today's children, who will grow up to teach the next generation. Drowning is a silent epidemic that claims an estimated 360,000 lives every year, many of them children.Drowning is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide. These are wasted lives and preventable deaths. 

The English Channel swim is seen as the Mount Everest of all swims as more people have climbed Mount Everest than have swum the English Channel. Swimmers will take part in a relay team of 6 from Dover to France, with the swim taking 12 - 18 hours. Please sponsor me as part of the 2023 team and hope I get through all the jellyfish!