Swimmers don festive outfits for Boxing Day dips for good causes
People across the country have been raising money for charity.
Swimmers have donned festive costumes as they braved the cold to take on Boxing Day dips for good causes.
Across the country – from Folkestone to Hartlepool – people have put on everything from leggings to Santa hats to raise money for charity.
“Me and my friends have lost quite a few people through mental health,” the 31-year-old who works in insurance told the PA news agency.
“Andy’s Man Club help everyone and I wanted to give a bit back to them and they’ve offered me help before, so it was a worthwhile cause I wanted to help.”
“I wore leggings and a reindeer hat with a bell on it because I can’t swim and my mum wanted to make sure I did not get lost,” he added.
“It was brilliant and a lot of fun – will 100% do it again next year.”
The pair – who celebrated their birthday on Christmas Day – said the swim was “absolutely freezing”.
Their father Gary Riches, 40, vice principal at Hartlepool College of Further Education, told PA they aimed to raise money to repair the vandalised training nets at their cricket club in Seaton Carew.
Elsewhere, at the Folkestone Lions’ Boxing Day Dip at Sunny Sands Beach in Folkestone, Kent, everywhere you looked Santa or his elves were seemingly present.
The link to Mr Poole’s fundraiser can be found here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/twdw84-we-lose-too-many-men-to-mental-health?
