We are Jamie Nottage, Llewelyn Woodward and Sammy Farnfield and this is our adventure! In September 2016 we are attempting to swim the English Channel as a 3 person relay.
So why are we doing this? In 2017 Sammy & Llewelyn are going on a World Challenge trip to Zambia which will involve trekking to a village & then working with the villagers for 3 weeks to help improve their daily lives. Part of the challenge is to raise the £4,700 needed & being a swimmer Sammy chose to swim the English Channel. Realising she needed help she enlisted the support of 2 of her school friends & despite Jamie not taking part in World Challenge he was just as keen to join in.
The nearer we get to going the more we realise what a huge challenge this is, there have only been 26 successful 3 person crossings in the last 10 years!
We will start in the dark, which is quite frightening and it will take us 15 hours or more in water of around 16 degrees. As well as the cold, waves, unspeakable muck, stinging jelly fish, with the help of our pilot we have to negotiate the busiest shipping lane in the world.
To give us the best chance we have met with others that have succeeded and are training hard. Each week we are spending time in our local lake and making numerous trips to the coast to ensure we are not only used to the cold but experienced in swimming in the sea.

Your support will make all this hard work worthwhile in so many ways. Firstly, giving Sammy and Llewelyn the chance to work with villagers in Zambia, living a life unrecognisable to our own.
Also nearer to home, helping fund research into Cancer with the Institute for Cancer Research (Jamie). The desperately important support terminal patients and their families need at the time they need it most at Michael Sobell Hopsice (Sammy) and also help fund the amazing work Age UK do which, after all, we may all need one day.
Please give what you can and help us change lives.
More info at
www.jlsswimthechannel.com