Chillswim: Ullswater · 12 July 2025

When you twin your toilet, you can make a match made for change. Your support will help communities access safe, sustainable water, hygiene and sanitation projects and transform lives with safe drinking water, decent sanitation facilities and healthy hygiene. Twin your toilet today.

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I'm taking part in Chillswim: Ullswater and attempting to swim the length of Ullswater (7 1/2 miles) to raise money for Toilet Twinning. Toilet Twinning is helping to transform lives in some of the poorest places on the planet. Vulnerable households will: learn about the importance of sanitation and hygiene; build their own loo; gain access to clean water; enjoy better health - and take a massive step out of generational poverty.

Water and sanitation projects have a particularly positive impact on the lives of women and girls and research suggest that each pound invested in water, sanitation and hygiene projects could generate up to a £21 return through families having improved health and increased ability to work.

I really can't stress enough just how nervous I am about this. Pool training is going really well but Hathersage Pool is about 27 degrees and has a nice black line on the bottom to keep me going the right way. Ullswater is currently 16 degrees and expected to drop over the next 2 weeks. Going in a straight line in open water is still something of a challenge...My goal is just to finish without being timed out. I can't guarantee that I will finish but I promise that I will try my best!

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£505.00
+ £108.75 Gift Aid
Online
£505.00
Offline
£0.00

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