Event: Swim Serpentine 2026

Swim in the heart of London

Swim Serpentine is a one-day open water swimming festival in the centre of Hyde Park.

Swim Serpentine is already a must-do event in the open water swimming calendar. All your needs will be catered for with heated changing rooms, dunk zone, pontoon start and finish, full water safety crew, hot tubs and exhibition area.

Event Details

Date: Saturday 19 September
Distances: Two miles
Registration fee: £50
Sponsorship target: £350

Two Miles
If you’re a more experienced open water swimmer who is keen to take on a challenge within the beautiful grounds of Hyde Park, the two-mile distance is for you! This event will see you swim two full laps of the Serpentine lake, making it the ideal option if you’ve already completed a one-mile swim outdoors and are looking to build on your distance.
Registration Fee: £50
Fundraising Target: £350

About us:

The Connection have been supporting people sleeping rough to move away from the streets for over 100 years. We get to know each person we work with. Many have been pushed to the edge, and they all have their own challenges to overcome.

Everyone needs to find their own way home, but we go with them every step of the journey. It often starts with a chat, the offer of a coffee and perhaps a hot meal or shower. Simple things that aren’t easy when you are living on the streets. We work with people to recover from the streets so that they can move on to a meaningful, fulfilling and settled life, long into the future.

What difference could you make?

  • £100 could fund 4 full initial assessments for newly homeless people, creating their action plans and giving them access to hot nutritious meals, showers, laundry and GP services.
  • £350 could enable a vulnerable homeless rough sleeper to have a course of specialist one-to-one mental health support sessions which will help them to positively cope with their problems and move forward. Considering that approximately two thirds of homeless people living on the streets have mental health problems which are often severely hindering their ability to move on from the streets, that is a massive contribution.

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    Own Place Runners

    If you have your own place in the event, but would like to fundraise for The Connection, then please get in touch with events@cstm.org.uk. We will provide you with more information on being part of Team Connection!

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