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Total raised so far

136%

£205.00 of £150 target +£46.25 Gift Aid See breakdown

Recent donations

3 months ago

Fiona

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

3 months ago

Gervais

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Good effort !

3 months ago

Rhodri Lucas

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Great effort!

3 months ago

rockhopper

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Sooner you than me....esp with malky and a fig leaf close by...;-)

3 months ago

Helen & Paul Webster

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

Well done guys - great cause too

3 months ago

John Toms

£10.00

Well done.

3 months ago

Douglas MacArthur

£10.00

3 months ago

John-Paul

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

The last photo 😂

3 months ago

Thomas Lavelle

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Get in the sea!

3 months ago

Anonymous

£70.00

+ £17.50 Gift Aid

Let's throw Malky in the sea!

Event date: 31st August 2024

Jackie Baxter is raising money for Àban

My story

**Thankyou so much to everyone who donated! We did the swim but am trying to get the photos from a corrupted SD card - watch this space!**

Malky's wild swimming journey began in Spring/Summer 2022 when I started cold dipping to help with Long Covid. Malky was often a reluctant participant, but I think he enjoyed it some of the time. Not that he would admit it.

Probably against his better judgement, he's been persuaded to swim the Kessock Swim this year. This involves swimming from South Kessock to North Kessock (and back), a distance of about 1.2km, which is twice as far as he's ever swum before....

It's possible he might actually enjoy the experience, but just in case he doesn't he's raising money for Aban, a local charity who are running the swim, but their thing is helping young people get out into the outdoors.

If anyone has any spare pennies, think of Malky on Saturday, battling waves, seaweed and hopefully not any jellyfish for no reason at all other than that he didn't say "no" quickly enough when I suggested it.

(I'm also swimming it, but I actually enjoy this stuff)


Thank you for checking out my page. Making a donation is fast, easy and secure thanks to Give as you Live Donate. They'll take your donation and pass it onto Àban.

My updates

3 months ago

We did it! (photos currently with the tech guys as they try to recover a corrupted SD card noooooo!!!) 
You'll see me on the right - my pink bobble hat just visible towards the front, and Malky's big head top left where he's questioning his life choices. 
My time was about 47 mins and Malky 59 mins - he was absolutely fine once he got some hot food in him!

Image uploaded with update

4 months ago

Boxing Day, Loch Morlich

Image uploaded with update

4 months ago

Malky swimming on Harris

Image uploaded with update

4 months ago

Here Malky actually looks sort of happy (but maybe that's because it's before he cut his long hair off!)

Image uploaded with update

Jackie Baxter is fundraising for

Àban

Charity number: SC051413

Jackie Baxter is fundraising as part of

Kessock Ferry Swim 2024

31st August 2024

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