Beat Your Best

And Help Fundraise for The Lake District Foundation

The Great North Swim is back in Brockhole Windermere from the 12th – 14th June, and to celebrate their association with the UK’s biggest open water swim, title partner Coventry Building Society is launching a new fundraising initiative.

‘Beat Your Best’ is encouraging swimmers of all abilities to set themselves a target time before the event. For every swimmer who beats their target, Coventry Building Society will mark the achievement by making a donation to the Lake District Foundation.*

Combining personal challenge, fundraising and environmental impact, ‘Beat Your Best’ showcases how Coventry Building Society is supporting both participants and the local landscape.

Jon Badger, Senior Sponsorship Manager at Coventry Building Society said:

“We’re passionate about protecting and preserving our beautiful countryside, and this swimmer challenge reflects our commitment to sustainability and our B Corp values. This event is a fantastic celebration of people coming together to embrace the outdoors. Around 6,500 swimmers are expected to take to the water over the weekend and if we all sign up to beat our target even by a few minutes we can all make a huge difference. Join the ‘Beat Your Best’ challenge and together help us fundraise to support projects that protects the waters which host this iconic event and keep them safe for future generations to enjoy.”

To find out more and register your time visit the website here.

The Lake District Foundation is the charity for the Lake District. They fund, collaborate and inspire positive action to support nature, heritage and people. Their work focusing on climate action to protect the environment, restoring and maintaining cleaner lakes for all to enjoy and promoting inclusion and accessibility for everyone to the national park. Fundraising will go towards their work addressing the urgent challenges facing the Lake District by making their projects possible, encouraging collaboration and inspiring positive action.

The Great North Swim, in association with Coventry Building Society, is a weekend-long celebration of open water swimming which draws around 25,000 people from across the country to the stunning Lake District National Park.

The swim caters for all ages, abilities and levels of experience across a variety of distances - from 250m, half mile, 1 mile, 2 mile, 5k to a marathon 10K open water challenge. There’s also the SwimRun challenge on the 13 June if you fancy taking on an off-road, open water island-hopping adventure with two distances to complete.

It’s not too late to dive in and take part. Deadline for entries for all distances is Thursday, 11 June at 10am

For more information or to enter the Coventry Building Society Great North Swim click here.