Swimathon Foundation

Registered charity 1123870 · since 2008swimathonfoundation.org·United Kingdom·Updated 29 October 2026

Key takeaways

  • Swimathon Foundation's grants scheme is for smaller organisations running community swimming projects, and it aims to fund new projects and activities that give people chances to swim or learn to swim, so a project of that kind is the clearest fit.
  • The annual report and register entry give no grant amounts or grant range, so the Foundation's usual request size cannot be judged from them, and you should ask it what would suit before you set a figure.
  • No publicly published application process was found, so contact the Foundation directly to check whether it is accepting applications and what it needs before writing a full proposal.
  • Nothing in the annual report, its register entry or on its website gives a timing pattern or says how competitive its grants are, so do not assume either.
  • Neither the annual report, its register entry nor its website names any exclusions, but the scheme's focus on swimming opportunities means a project without a swimming element is unlikely to fit.

Overview

Swimathon Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1123870).

Swimathon Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales under charity number 1123870. It supports smaller organisations involved in community swimming projects through a grants scheme, which aims to fund new projects and activities that provide opportunities to swim or learn to swim. The Foundation also owns the Swimathon, Marathon Swims, Schools Swimathon and Open Water campaigns and challenges, which it uses to promote the health, wellbeing and education of the public.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Swimathon Foundation supports smaller organisations involved in local community swimming projects through a grants scheme. It aims to help fund new projects and activities that provide opportunities to swim or learn to swim. Its wider work uses swimming campaigns and challenges to promote the health, wellbeing and education of the general public, working with a range of partners. The Foundation describes its grant support as being offered when it can, with an emphasis on creating opportunities for people to take part in swimming or learn to swim.

Themes

  • Swimming opportunities

Geographic Focus

UK.

How to apply

No way to apply was found in the charity's annual report, its register entry, its website or other pages about it.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

  • It aims to fund new projects and activities that create opportunities to swim or learn to swim.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

  • United Kingdom

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Five years of accounts

Financial yearIncomeExpenditureGrants paidAccounts document
year to 30 September 2021£978,548£1,174,107£28,050Accounts for year to 30 September 2021
year to 30 September 2022£565,154£834,858£475Accounts for year to 30 September 2022
year to 30 September 2023£717,364£688,713£6,000Accounts for year to 30 September 2023
year to 30 September 2024£793,569£677,622—Accounts for year to 30 September 2024
year to 30 September 2025£771,465£585,968—Accounts for year to 30 September 2025

Income vs grants paid

IncomeGrants paid

Total value each financial year

YE 2021
£28,050 grants
YE 2022
£475 grants
YE 2023
£6,000 grants

Grants paid stayed within income across the 3 years shown.

  • Grants paid, year to 30 September 2021; year to 30 September 2022; year to 30 September 2023: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.

Sources

This profile draws on the funder’s own website as well as its filed accounts.

Sources last checked on 23 October 2026.

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