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Tenby’s Boxing Day Swim - 26th December 2010. 

Sponsored by FBM Holidays

 Pembrokeshire's Premier Cottage Letting Agency.

 

FBM Holidays is proud to be the sponsor of one of Wales’ top festive highlights – the Tenby Boxing Day Swim.

If you fancy something different this Christmas, then why not join the crowds on and around Tenby’s North Beach who come from far and wide to enjoy the silly spectacle of the annual festive dip, now in its 39^th year. This event has raised nearly £160,000 over the years.

 

Fun on the beach starts at 11am with a canoe race, crazy raft race and bonfire. The big plunge is at 11.30am, with hundreds of crazy bathers – many in fancy dress – stampeding for the sea.

 

Click HERE for details of the next charity Boxing Day Swim.

 

 

 

The brave can request a sponsor form from here - It will then be emailed to you.

 

TSSA chairman Chris Osborne – whose family has been associated with the swim since its beginnings – has seen the event take place in every weather condition, from brilliant sunshine to freezing wind-chill. And he admitted that each year, the organisers never fail to be amazed by its growing success and popularity.

 

Said Chris: “It’s a magnetic spectacle to see the dash of madness, as the chilling waters of Carmarthen Bay are invaded by a multi-coloured mass of squeals, shouts and giggles. Is there a better way of breaking out of that Christmas slumber? Every year, the swim surpasses previous numbers of swimmers, spectators and, perhaps most significantly, contribution to local and national charities, which justifies the whole extravaganza.”

 

 

SWIMMERS SPLASH OUT TO SING A SONG OF CHRISTMAS FOR THE 2009 SWIM

Hundreds of brave bathers are tuning up for a crazy Christmas, as a musical theme is sounded out for the Tenby Boxing Day Swim.

The fancy-dress code of ‘Seasonal Songs’ should strike just the right note with fans of wacky costume, encouraging We Three Kings, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman to take to the water.

There will also be a special prize for the best fancy-dressed group of singers at the event.

The swim, now in its 39^th year,  is one of Britain’s top festive highlights, and attracts crowds in their thousands who enjoy the silly spectacle from every vantage point around Tenby’s North Beach.

Its organiser, Tenby Sea Swimming Association (TSSA), has just gained a further three years of sponsorship from Tenby-based FBM Holidays.

The headline charities supported by TSSA this year are

* Pembrokeshire Stroke Club

* Pembrokeshire’s Hope Multiple Sclerosis therapy centre

* Pembrokeshire Special Needs Gymnastics Club

*Ty Hafan Children’s Hospice for Wales

*Leukaemia Research, Tenby and district branch

TSSA alone has raised approaching £200,000 over the years, with many thousands more by swimmers who collect for their own chosen charities and good causes.

TSSA chairman Chris Osborne, whose family have been involved in the Boxing Day Swim  from its beginning, admitted: “I continue to be amazed by the lunacy of the event, at its ridiculous popularity and its expanding legacy. It’s hard to even contemplate seasonal celebrations without it!”

He welcomed the continued sponsorship of FBM Holidays and added: “It means that the core costs are paid for, so everything can go to the beneficiary charities. That makes it, in today’s difficult economic conditions, a sustainable swim as well.”

FBM Holidays partner Tim Brace said: “We’re delighted to support the event - it gives us the opportunity to put something back into the community, with the knowledge that we are helping to keep this wonderful Tenby tradition going.

It’s even more important, when times are hard, that people support events like this. We are stronger as a community when we work together and the Tenby Boxing Day Swim  helps to make the town a place that locals and visitors can enjoy over the festive season.”

Sponsor forms are now available from www.tenbyboxingdayswim.co.uk or the Fourcroft Hotel, Tenby. For more information, visit the website or call 01834 842886.

 

                                                                                  

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Swim serenade: Chris Osborne of TSSA and Tim Brace of FBM Holidays herald this year’s musically-themed Tenby Boxing Day Swim.

PICTURE: Gareth Davies Photography

Last year’s event attracted almost 600 entrants who raised over £17,000 for charities and good causes. The main sponsor is once again FBM Holidays of Tenby.

_{Sponsor forms can be downloaded from http://www.tenbyboxingdayswim.co.uk or collected from the Fourcroft Hotel, Tenby.}

 Photos on this page courtesy Gareth Davies Photography.