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| Naked sea dash needs more skinny dippers | Naked sea dash needs more skinny dippers |
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| The volunteering world is revelling in its freshly-polished image after the Olympics and Paeralympics, but a north-east event dependent on ordinary people giving up their free time is still well short of its target. | The volunteering world is revelling in its freshly-polished image after the Olympics and Paeralympics, but a north-east event dependent on ordinary people giving up their free time is still well short of its target. |
| This is surprising because all that is asked of the 414 enthusiasts needed is to take off their clothes at sunrise in 12 days time and rush into the North Sea and then back out again. | This is surprising because all that is asked of the 414 enthusiasts needed is to take off their clothes at sunrise in 12 days time and rush into the North Sea and then back out again. |
| Given the popularity of mass nakedness events in the north in recent times, including art installations by Spencer Tunick in Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Salford, it seems unlikely to be shyness which is holding things up. Maybe word hasn't spread efficiently enough, although the regional media are doing their best now to put that right. | Given the popularity of mass nakedness events in the north in recent times, including art installations by Spencer Tunick in Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Salford, it seems unlikely to be shyness which is holding things up. Maybe word hasn't spread efficiently enough, although the regional media are doing their best now to put that right. |
| The organiser Jacqueline Higginson is also doing her bit on social media to attract £10 pledges to the mental health charity Mind which will register participants for an attempt on the Guinness World Record for people skinny-dipping in the sea at one time in one place. She explains on Facebook: | The organiser Jacqueline Higginson is also doing her bit on social media to attract £10 pledges to the mental health charity Mind which will register participants for an attempt on the Guinness World Record for people skinny-dipping in the sea at one time in one place. She explains on Facebook: |
| Following on from my beautiful skinny dip experience in Rhossili Bay (which made it into the Guinness Book of World Records) I have decided to recreate it - up North! | Following on from my beautiful skinny dip experience in Rhossili Bay (which made it into the Guinness Book of World Records) I have decided to recreate it - up North! |
| On Saturday 22 September you are invited to join hundreds of others in the North East Skinny Dip. The benefit of being on the east coast is that if it is a clear day we get to run towards a big red sun too. Sunrise is at 06.52am on this day so if we can all get there nice and early we could time it just right. | On Saturday 22 September you are invited to join hundreds of others in the North East Skinny Dip. The benefit of being on the east coast is that if it is a clear day we get to run towards a big red sun too. Sunrise is at 06.52am on this day so if we can all get there nice and early we could time it just right. |
| The day is also the Autumn Equinox, the transition from summer to winter. I cannot think of a more appropriate way to celebrate the summer and welcome the winter than stripping down to skin and running wild and free into the North Sea. | The day is also the Autumn Equinox, the transition from summer to winter. I cannot think of a more appropriate way to celebrate the summer and welcome the winter than stripping down to skin and running wild and free into the North Sea. |
| I encourage you to use the event to raise money for charity and I would like to use the opportunity to increase awareness of mental health issues. MIND don't mind us stripping naked to raise some money for them and are happy to attach their charity to the event. | I encourage you to use the event to raise money for charity and I would like to use the opportunity to increase awareness of mental health issues. MIND don't mind us stripping naked to raise some money for them and are happy to attach their charity to the event. |
The Rhossili Bay event last year raised more than £25,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care and the National Trust, and also set the current skinny-dipping world record of 413. Higginson, a 34-year-old paramedic and wild swimming enthusiast from Whitburn on South Tyneside, has topped 185 definite participants at Druridge Bay, seven glorious miles of dunes between Amble and Cresswell north of Lynemouth, with another 167 maybes, but needs plenty more in a fairly short time. She says: | The Rhossili Bay event last year raised more than £25,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care and the National Trust, and also set the current skinny-dipping world record of 413. Higginson, a 34-year-old paramedic and wild swimming enthusiast from Whitburn on South Tyneside, has topped 185 definite participants at Druridge Bay, seven glorious miles of dunes between Amble and Cresswell north of Lynemouth, with another 167 maybes, but needs plenty more in a fairly short time. She says: |
| I'm remaining hopeful because the skinny dip in Wales was such a unique and special experience. Anyone who comes along on the day and feels what the atmosphere is like, is going to join in. They don't have to go naked but I'm sure they'll go for it when they're there. A lot of us were nervous on the Gower in Wales last summer, but when the time came, we just went for it and loved the whole thing. | I'm remaining hopeful because the skinny dip in Wales was such a unique and special experience. Anyone who comes along on the day and feels what the atmosphere is like, is going to join in. They don't have to go naked but I'm sure they'll go for it when they're there. A lot of us were nervous on the Gower in Wales last summer, but when the time came, we just went for it and loved the whole thing. |
| The event isn't cost-free, with lifeguards, portable lavatories and other bacvk-up to satisfy the National Trust which owns both Druridge Bay and Rhossili. There's plenty more info here - and the weather forecast for the week before the dip includes a fair amount of sunshine. | The event isn't cost-free, with lifeguards, portable lavatories and other bacvk-up to satisfy the National Trust which owns both Druridge Bay and Rhossili. There's plenty more info here - and the weather forecast for the week before the dip includes a fair amount of sunshine. |
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