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We are now over half way through our series of events, with the weekend just gone seeing us visit Wales National Pool in Swansea, before travelling east to Bristol’s Hengrove Park leisure centre.

Olympic Silver medalist and double World Champion Keri-Anne Payne and Olympic Gold medalist Duncan Goodhew joined more than eight hundred swimmers as they took part in British Gas SwimBritain in the Great Lake at Blenheim Palace on Sunday 7thSeptember.

Paralympic multi-medal winning swimmer Claire Cashmore joined hundreds of swimmers from across Yorkshire as they took part in British Gas SwimBritain Sheffield at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre on Saturday 6th September.

Four-time Paralympic Gold Medalist Ellie Simmonds joined swimmers from across the West Midlands as they took part in British Gas SwimBritain at Coventry Sports and Leisure Centre on Saturday 6th September.

This weekend sees not one, not two, but THREE SwimBritain events taking place all over the country!

Olympic Silver Medalist and Double World Champion Kerri-Anne Payne and 50m breaststroke World Record holder Adam Peaty joined hundreds of swimmers from across the North West as they took part in British Gas SwimBritain Stockport at Life Leisure Grand Central Pools on Saturday 30th August.

This Saturday sees the first event of the 2014 SwimBritain campaign at Stockport’s Grand Central Pools. Keri-anne Payne will be swimming and will be on hand to cheer you on and hand out your extremely well deserved medals!

If you're thinking of signing up to the Coventry event, here's your chance to have Ellie Simmonds join your team! And what's more, if you enter any SwimBritain event nationwide you'll be in with a chance of getting a place on David Walliams team!

Can you believe there is only 30 days left until our first event?! Grand Central Pools in Stockport will play host to our first official 2014 event. You can still sign up as well – register here!

SwimBritain at London Aquatics Centre has been so popular, all our sessions have sold out to date! However we are very pleased to announce that we now have an extra SB1000 session at 18.30 on Saturday 20th September.

​SwimBritain team places are selling fast. To cope with extra demand we have opened further SwimBritain 1000 sessions at some of our SwimBritain pool venues.

Want to feel more content, less grumpy and finally get a good night’s sleep? Swimming could be the answer, a new study by British Gas SwimBritain conducted by Mindlab International reveals.

Hurry - only 2 days to go until our Early Bird discount offer ends! Sign up here now and take advantage of the special discounted price of £30 per team!

Find out who won the Battle of SwimBritain which took place last Saturday in Loughborough...

Enter SwimBritain 2014 today and take advantage of our earlybird offer - just £30 per team available until 31st May.
 

For every participant who takes part in SwimBritain 2014, British Gas will donate £1 to Shelter.

​British Gas have been proudly supporting Shelter since October 2012.