Charity PJ Week FEAR

Charity Pyjama Week

Each year we hold a Charity Pyjama Week. As well as adding an element of fun to our lessons, our Pyjama Parties are a vital element of our teaching. If accidents happen, often it's when fully clothed. We strongly believe that it's our duty to ensure that our swimmers know what it feels like to be in water while wearing clothes. Even just this short experience will help them to realise that even though they feel heavier, they can still do those all important reactions of turning, kicking to the surface and reaching for the side. The best bit is, they do all of this whilst ensuring the children have lots of fun. 

This year, we hope to have the most successful Charity Pyjama Week ever! We are so excited to be holding this event again and for some of you it might be your first time. We have a local charity partner, a wonderful organisation called FEAR - Face Everything And Rise.

FEAR are a charity that organise lots of different events throughout the year for children and families going through cancer treatment. They organise activity days such as sailing and kayaking. This year we have chosen FEAR because they are a charity that enable children who have a central Hickman Line to continue to swim by loaning specialised dry suits that would usually cost £500+ and have to be repurchased every time a child goes up in clothes size. Normally, a child with a Hickman line wouldn't be allowed to swim or even go in a bath because of the risk of their central line becoming infected, but with the specialised dry suits that FEAR loan, it enables children to safely swim by keeping the torso completely dry in water.

We have a Little Dipper, Bea who is currently being supported by the charity.  She adores water and swimming and we're so glad FEAR are there to enable children, like Bea, to swim safely. 

There are a number of ways you can support this fantastic charity:

• Just Giving - we have set up a Just Giving page here for our franchise and when Pyjama Week is all over, donations will go straight to Face Everything And Rise.  The Just Giving Page will be open until Friday 24th October 2025.
  
  
• Sponsorship - We'd love your little one to be sponsored for completing a Personal Survival Lesson in their pyjamas! The child who raises the most money will win a special prize and also be in with a chance of winning a further prize from Puddle Ducks Head Office. You can download a sponsorship form below if you want to get started!
  
  Baby and Pre-School Sponsor Form
  
  Swim Academy Sponsor Form

Thank you for your support!