The OSS are relaunching their swim map of great spots to swim around the Uk in May, based on suggestions collected from members over the last two years. A small team of kind volunteers is already helping this, but we need a couple more people. Please conta... More >
Want to improve your front crawl, pick up a few tips for the outdoors or learn butterfly? Following a very successful and sunny weekend of lido lessons at London Fields Lido (a heated outdoor pool in Hackney) on 26th/27th April, the OSS is planni... More >
.. running, shouting, ducking, bombing & picnicking. Swim without restrictions: swim outdoors!OSS members can send off for a free copy of our poster, and a set of postcards (beautiful and free - just like wild swimming) from the forthcoming b... More >
MEMBERSHIP'S FREE The Outdoor Swimming Society is dedicated to increasing the numbers of people who experience the joy of swimming safely in the UK's lakes, rivers, lidos and sea, while raising money for charity with mass swims. Whether you strip and dip once a year or skinny dip every day, please jump in and join us! Sign up and we'll send you occasional about swimming events.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR SWIM MAP! We are launching a new and improved swim map next month based on members suggestions of great swim spots. The project already has a few volunteers on it, but we need (a) someone to look up OS ref's and googlemap links for the sites (b) a picture person to locate and size free location shots (where snapshots aren't available) (c) someone with experience of CMS's to upload the swims (about 50 to start with). Please contact us to help. Thank you.
SWIM WILD in 2008: Want to try swimming outdoors? Fancy a mass swim for charity? This year the OSS mass charity swim will be called 'Swim Wild' and will take place in a new lake in Cumbria, with 300-500 swimmers, camping, BBWQ & sponsorship going towards environmental and river charities. Details are being sorted but we're hoping to stick with our normal date - the first weekend in September - so pencil in Saturday 6th September. More news soon! Sign up as a member and you'll be the first to know when registration opens.
£150,000 RAISED FOR CANCER RESEARCH UK in the last two years by OSS swimmers in Breastrokes with USA PRO swims. Well done everybody!
MEET THE TEAM. See some of the faces behind the OSS.
See OSS on BBC: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NVx5-X9qfZs