Fantastic news!

Today we have made two huge leaps forward in our channel swim project. Firstly came the news that we had been included in The Reading Post with a very flattering article and slightly less flattering picture of us all! We are hoping this will help to generate some more interest in the challenge and may even lead to some more fundraising opportunities. Either way, it is excellent exposure for us and we really hope this is just the beginning of our publicity campaign - This Morning here we come!

We are also very pleased to announce that we have been awarded an extremely generous £2000 from the Mark Evison Foundation. Three of us made the trip down to Dulwich, South London last Friday for an interview just days after we'd put our application in. It was quite an informal process, though stressful nevertheless. We were asked all about the project, our motivations, evidence of our dedication to the challenge and also the practicalities of the swim itself. I think most of all we showed our overwhelming enthusiasm for the whole thing, from the planning, to the training and all the way to the completion of the challenge. They have given us some leaflets and posters to use whenever we talk about the project and we are hoping to receive some t-shirts to be worn at future events, so look out for lots of Mark Evison Foundation information coming your way in the next few months!

We have also been told by Izzy, our resident slave driver, that we all have to commence structured, specific land training. I think we've all said at some point that it's easy to forget about the actual swimming part of the project when you're all caught up in the fundraising, but I think it's going to be completely unavoidable
 from now on! I'm definitely not starting on the regular cold showers just yet though!

We'll keep you all updated on any more progress, thanks already to everyone who has supported us so far!