🏊 Swim Serpentine 2026
Thank you for your interest in swimming with Whisper in Swim Serpentine 🥇on Saturday 19 September 2026!
We have charity places for 2026 and you are very welcome ❤️ to apply for one using the form below.
Whisper offers you and your supporters a cause where even small donations can be life-changing ✨. We're a very high-impact charity that funds Whisper's Magical Children's Hospital 🏥, a maternity unit 🤰🏾, an ambulance 🚑 and a nursing school 🎓 in Jinja, Uganda. We run on an annual donation budget of around £250,000. Every £15 donated allows us to treat a child, an average that includes some lengthy inpatient stays 🤒. We estimate that every £364 donated saves a life that would not otherwise have been saved 🧸. Outside Uganda we're entirely staffed by volunteers 💖, helping donations go further.
Swim Serpentine is an annual swimming event 🏆 that takes place in the Serpentine lake 🦆 in London's Hyde Park. It's a pleasant day out even as a spectator 🥳; tell your friends! You can find out more about the event on the official site. There are several available distances:
| Distance | Equivalent in lengths of a 25m pool |
|---|---|
| Half mile | 32 |
| One mile | 64 |
| Two miles | 129 |
| Six miles (not offered by Whisper) | 386 |
For comparison, a two mile swim takes less time than a half marathon 🏃 and takes less energy, but efficient technique ⏱️ is important for a swim. A six mile swim is similar to a marathon in time and energy.
In return for a place we'd like you to donate or commit to raising at least £150 (Half Mile), £200 (One Mile) or £300 (Two Miles) for us. We have optional corporate matched giving 🎁 available which can significantly help you to reach these targets.
Let's take a quick tour 👀 of some of the things we do. This is Whisper's hospital; the hospital opened on another site in 2016 and moved to this building in 2018:
This is the ambulance in front of the hospital:
This is one of our operating theatres:
This is our delivery room in the maternity unit:
This is a lecture in our nursing school, which has 40 nurses in its latest intake:
We can offer you:
- personal attention - we're a small organisation 🙏
- no registration fee
- advice and practical help with fundraising
- optional corporate matched giving, to help you meet your target or to raise more
I cannot tell you how inspiring this charity is. They do incredible work. I am raising money for Whisper but the support I am getting from them is fantastic. I have never had this before when raising money for charity. a previous runner in the London Marathon
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