NEW ISSUE! Venues & Community 💙

Published: Mon, 12/01/25

Updated: Mon, 12/01/25

Dear Swimmer

Our wonderful communities, venues and wild spots keep our spirits warm in winter—even when our toes and fingers are freezing cold.

Our last issue of the 2025 celebrates just this—the people and places that shape our swimming lives. Come with us as we explore swim venues as they go from strength to strength, the wildest swim spots—including our winning cover photo—and the communities which makes those places feel like swimming home.

You can buy the brand new December issue now, or subscribe to read it digitally straight away.

Happy festive swimming to you and your community wherever you swim.

Ella Foote, Editor

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WHY SWIM VENUES MATTER

Swim venues have grown and diversified in the past few years. If you're not convinced about paying to swim outdoors, read our feature about how swim venues have become essential hubs for outdoor swimmers, how they contribute to rewilding, and how they can support disadvantaged communities.

We discover how cold water brings surprising warmth to relationships in our interview with outdoor swimming couple Jules and Greg from Jules & Greg’s Wild Swim, and in Lowri Jones's feature about the rise of the Girly Dips community.

Plus, we have shoulder-healing techniques, festive holiday swim-fit tips, and our gear team tests the best women’s training swimsuits and waterproof bone-conduction headphones. Plus, Ben Lane pits river versus sea over 30km, and Ella Foote reports back from a sun-drenched SwimTrek adventure in the Middle East.

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YOUR IMAGES

Thank you for all your beautiful, inspiring and heart-warming images of your venues and communities. They couldn't all make the front cover, but we had to make a double-page spread of our favourites!

AND THE WINNER IS

Our winning cover photo was taken by Rob Eyton-Jones of his swimming pal Rebecca Gentek entering Lochan na h-Achlaise on Rannoch Moor in Scotland.

We loved the wild-wintery look of this swimming spot.

Well done Rob and Rebecca!

AS 2025 COMES TO A CLOSE

Let's talk about our Outdoor Swimmer community. We want to thank you for being with us this year.

It's been significant. It's another year that our independent, specialist print magazine has thrived in a digital landscape, making space for reading longer articles and features among all the attention-grabbing content that's at our fingertips all the time.

We were very proud to celebrate our 100th issue with you in October and launch our new clothing range. We loved seeing you at events, venues and swim spots this year, too.

So to you, our supporters and members of our community, we send out the warmest thanks for buying our magazine, reading our articles online and our newsletter The Dip. We also have a small request: Please buy our latest issue or subscribe and continue to support us into 2026.

With thanks,

The Outdoor Swimmer Team x

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