The Big Swim 2025 – Meet the Supporters

The Big Swim 2025 is a community event taking place in Poole AND Brighton on Saturday 08 March to celebrate International Women’s Day. Land & Wave is hosting The Big Swim in Sandbanks, Poole and PinkNicky is hosting the Brighton event. We’re so bloody excited!

The Big Swim is a not-for-profit event aimed to shine a light on International Women’s Day and female equality. We really want you to celebrate with us by jumping in the sea on Saturday 08 March 2025. The Sandbanks event is ticketed but completely FREE and all participants will be entered into an incredible prize draw.

Land & Wave is working with some amazing companies and organisations, who are supporting The Big Swim, Sandbanks – many of which are providing amazing prizes for the participant prize draw.

Event Details

The Big Swim | Sandbanks, Poole
Saturday 08 March | 09.10 – 10.30

Ticket are FREE – but you must register your place to attend
Ticket link: Eventbrite Tickets go live at 12.00 on 20 Jan – will you be one of our 500 swimmers?
Every participant will be entered into our AMAZING Prize Draw

Meet ‘The Big Swim’ Supporters

Absolutely Winging It
@absolutely_wingingit
Dorset mum, Leila, is a powerhouse when it comes to bringing local women together. Her ‘Absolutely Winging It’ community mission is to ‘build a village because we’re all absolutely winging it!’. She moved to Dorset as a new mum 5 years ago and was looking to meet mums who were juggling life and kids. Her knack for bringing people together has led to her building a huge community of Dorset mums. She now plans regular parent-friendly events, such as epic Family Roast Dinners complete with child entertainment and glitzy evening events for mums. Mum-friendly retreats are on the horizon too. Thanks to @absolutely_wingingit for supporting Land & Wave and ‘The Big Swim’!

ActiveDorset
www.activedorset.org | @activedorset
Funded by Sport England, Active Dorset is tasked with getting our county moving through movement and physical activity. We’re so pleased they’ve pledged to support Land & Wave and ‘The Big Swim’. Active Dorset helps people to get moving by providing support, advice and facilities – The Big Swim is your perfect opportunity to try something new and get moving with the support of hundred of like-minded women!

Ali Morton Yoga
www.alimortonyoga.co.uk | @alimortonyoga
Ali’s no stranger to the Sandbanks shoreline – it plays host to many of her amazing Yoga practices. For anyone that’s met Ali, you’ll know she’s a ball of positivity and light and is an advocate for cold water therapy for body and soul. She hosts a range of well-being events and retreats, including fabulous Yoga breaks to Majorca and beyond. She’s offering a wonderful prize worth £80, which includes: a Beach / Travel Yoga Mat plus a Yoga Sauna Experience at The Saltwater Sauna! Absolute bliss!

BAO Skincare
www.baoskincare.co.uk | @baoskincare
BAO (pronounced Bay-O) is a Dorset-born skincare brand with global success. Vegan friendly and cruelty free, the organic BAO range is formulated with care to give your skin exactly what it needs, with none of the bad stuff. We’re super excited to be working with the lovely Emma from BAO – she’ll be on the beach at ‘The Big Swim’, Sandbanks, handing out samples. BAO is also providing a wonderful prize for The Big Swim prize draw; a BAO Skincare Bundle featuring the whole suite of BAO bestsellers including Recovery Face Cream, Restorative Face Oil, Nourish Overnight Mask and more – all deliciously good for the skin – worth over £211!

BEACHBUM
www.beachbumsup.com | @beachbumsup
You will have noticed Dorset-born company, BEACHBUM taking the beaches by storm with their amazing range of waterproof, windproof ‘Brobes’. Made from 100% recycled materials, these guys are on our wave length when it comes to their approach to outdoor living and adventure. They also produce a fantastic range of paddle boards and accessories. We LOVE their neoprene Springsuits too – perfect for taking the edge off of winter dipping!
BEACHBUM is providing one of their bestselling Brobes for the prize draw worth £130!

Emma Crowe PT
Facebook/EmmaCrowePT | @emmacrowept
Meet the wonderful whirlwind that is Emma Crowe. She’ll be leading the warm-up before The Big Swim on Sat 08 March! Emma’s a kick-ass Level 3 personal trainer and Level 2 Triathlon coach based in Dorset. Known locally for her fantastic group beach fitness sessions and 1-2-1 coaching, we’re thrilled to have Emma on board to get us all ready before The Big Swim. Follow her on facebook to find out about her range of pay-as-you-go beach circuits classes and wellness events.

Franceso Hair Salon
francescohair.salon | @francescohair.salons
The Francesco Hair Group is renowned for luxury salon experience paired with a friendly, personal touch. The gorgeous team at the Francesco Lilliput Salon will be on the beach on Saturday 08 March to offer complimentary hair oils for swimmer’s tresses as they emerge from the sea! Francesco Salon is also generously providing a £100 salon voucher for The Big Swim prize draw – what an absolute treat!

Cadbury Pilates
www.cadburypilates.com | @cadburypilates
Kate Cadbury is a pilates pro, with 20+ years of experience in physio and pilates for strength and mobility. She’s a GB athlete (Duathlon), business owner and mum of two – an amazing example for women everywhere! Cadbury’s Pilates is offering a brilliant prize; 6 months access to online pilates classes (worth £210) plus a physio/sports massage (worth £60)! We’re so pleased to have Kate on board!

Land & Wave
www.landandwave.co.uk | @landandwave
Land & Wave (that’s us!) is hosting ‘The Big Swim’ at Sandbanks in Poole, Dorset – it’s our first event of this scale and we’re so excited! Land & Wave is your go-to place for adventure in Dorset. Coasteering, Paddle Boarding, Kayaking, Bushcraft, Wild Swimming and . We deliver exciting corporate events, Stag & Hen do’s, Kids Holiday Clubs at Sandbanks and outdoor instructor training courses.
Land & Wave is providing 3 great prizes:
Prize 1: Easter Kids Holiday Club 3-day Package 08 – 10 April worth £150
Prize 2: Coasteering Voucher for 4 people worth £239
Prize 3: Mental Health First Aid Course 14 March worth £145

Loving Life Lillie
www.lovinglifelillie.com | @lovinglifelillie
Loving Life Lillie is pledging their support for The Big Swim. Lillie has an amazing array of wellness skills; yoga teacher, counsellor, hypnotherapist, personal trainer, breath-work facilitator, sound healer, cold water therapist, and holds certifications in tapping, body love coaching, and trauma-informed practice! WOW – what a CV! Lillie is giving away an epic Summer Beach Yoga Season Pass worth £108 in our prize draw.

PinkNicky
pinknicky.com | @pinknicky1
PinkNicky is an Adventure blogger and a huge advocate for getting more women in the outdoors. Nicky launched the first ever Big Swim in Brighton and has celebrated it’s growth year-on-year, with BBC press coverage last year. Now, PinkNicky and Rosie from Land & Wave are joining forces to double their efforts and get EVEN MORE women celebrating on The Big Swim in Brighton AND Sandbanks. Together, they hope it will be the biggest event of its kind on the South Coast.

The Saltwater Sauna
www.thesaltwatersauna.com | @thesaltwatersauna
The Saltwater Sauna has propelled Dorset’s sauna culture to full zen-status over the last few years, with stunning Nordic Bathing saunas located in Sandbanks, Avon Beach (and Lulworth Cove coming soon). They offer open sauna sessions, private bookings and a glorious 90-minute Guided Sauna Ritual; a specially designed sequence to take the body through heating and cooling to maximise the sauna’s health and wellbeing benefits. The Saltwater Sauna at Sandbanks is our go-to place for some much-needed contrast therapy – nothing beats it to boost your mood and feel fantastic.
The Saltwater Sauna is very generously giving away a Guided Sauna Ritual for up to 4 people worth £220!

The Wild Swimming Co.
www.thewildswimming.co.uk | @thewildswimmingco
Our friends at The Wild Swimming Co. are the go-to Swim Retreat specialists. Catering for all swimming and fitness abilities, their super-inclusive swim retreats and events run year-round in various gorgeous UK locations. From Old Harry Rocks Swims, The Wild Swimming Festival in Swanage through to coastal and mountainous Swim Retreats, they provide a warm welcome to anyone who loves cold water swimming and dipping.

The Wild Swimming Co. is providing THREE awesome prizes for The Big Swim:
Prize 1: A Dorset Wild Swimming Holiday 13 – 15 April worth £459!
Prize 2: Summer Solstice Sunset Old Harry Rocks Swim, Powerboat and Sauna 21 June worth £75!
Prize 3: A 1-Hour Shared Sauna Experience at The Wild Swimming Festival worth £12

Tessa Lathey
@tesslathey | @tideandtribemedia
Tess is a presenter and lifestyle model, specialising in outdoor living. We’re delighted that she’s pledged her support for The Big Swim. As a mum of 3 girls, she knows the importance of bringing up daughters in a fair and equal world. She’s joining us at the event – we can’t wait!

Waterbabes UK
water-babes.co.uk | @waterbabesuk
Waterbabes is a Dorset-based female community providing an approachable route for women into watersports and adventure activities. They provide watersports lessons and social events to encourage more women to take up extreme sports. We LOVE this! The Waterbabes crew is EXACTLY aligned to Land & Wave’s mission to get more women enjoying outdoors in work and play.

Wild Wales
explorewildwales.co.uk | @wildwales
Ever wanted to explore mountains but never quite knew how to start? Wild Wales are the experts at introducing people to incredible hiking and swimming adventures in North Wales.
Their approach is simple; down-to-earth, adventures with plenty of cake. Emma and her crew, help people explore amazing wild swimming spots across Eryri (Snowdonia).
They’ll take you to places that most people will never discover. Wild Wales is kindly offering a prize of a guided wild swimming day in North Wales for you and 5 friends worth £240.