Aspire Menu Aspire celebrates its open water swimmers Having had to miss a year due to the pandemic, we were delighted to be able to hold our Swim Celebration Dinner on Saturday 27th November, to celebrate the open water swimming achievements of our 2020 and 2021 swimmers, who have raised thousands of pounds to support people with Spinal Cord Injury. 100 swimmers attended to meet up with their teams, enjoy a drinks reception, delicious three course dinner and to receive their awards. In 2020, against all odds contending with the pandemic we saw 11 relay teams successfully swim the English Channel and 29 people swam the Solent to the Isle of Wight. In 2021 we had 9 relay Channel teams, 62 people swam the Solent, and many others, who swam Loch Lomond, Loch Ness, the River Arun, Scilly Isles, the Serpentine, from Jersey to France and our new Sealand Swim. Andrew Ogierman, Aspire Events Manager, says, “Aspire would like to say a massive thank you to all of our open water swimmers over the past two years, who persevered with their training and took on their swims and fundraised despite the many challenges of Covid. Also a big thank you to our fantastic Boat Leaders who gave up their time to look after our relay Channel swim teams. We are now looking forward to a fantastic year of open water swimming in 2022.” Photos from the 2021 Swim Celebration Dinner Swimming events How we help Share this page Email Facebook Twitter Aspire Leisure Centre For disabled and non-disabled people Visit website InstructAbility Disabled people working in leisure Visit website Join our mailing list Sign up to our newsletter Useful Links Contact us Terms and conditions Privacy policy Accessibility Admin login Aspire Phone: 020 8954 5759 Email: info@aspire.org.uk Solicitors for people with spinal injury For free legal advice call 0800 030 20 40 (Other spinal injury specialists are available. we recommend thoroughly researching to meet your needs) Association for Spinal Injury Research, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Registered Charity Number 1075317. Scottish Registered Charity Number SC037482 Republic of Ireland Registered Charity Number 20150181 Registered Company Number 3744357 All rights reserved © 2010 - 2021