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What is the Polar Bear Plunge?

The Polar Bear Plunge is a fun-packed family event when hardy souls – many in fancy dress – celebrate the New Year by taking a dip in the icy waters of the St Albans Sub Aqua Club’s outdoor pool – all for charity!

Past plungers have included penguins and elves, Thor, a stormtrooper, a hotdog and ketchup, hippies and pirates, a family of rainbows and the pubs of St Albans. Families, workmates and sports teams all come to Plunge.

Check out photos of previous Plunges here.

The first St Albans’ Polar Bear Plunge took place in 2016. The funds raised went to the charities Ed2NorthPole was supporting on his epic trek to the North Pole. As the adventurous people of St Albans and beyond seemed to love donning fancy dress and jumping into icy water for charity as a bracing start to their New Year, the event has returned every New Year’s Day since. The St Albans Sub Aqua Club has generously continued to donate their facilities. So far the event has raised over £25,000 for charitable causes.

Much-loved local charity Earthworks St Albans has taken over from Clare and Ed Suttie and the Polar Bear Plunge lives on! All profits continue to go to charity. As host charity, Earthworks receives 70%, and our guest charity receives 30% of proceeds.

Read more about our charities here.

In 2020/21, due to restrictions, our Polar Bear Plunge will be a socially-distanced and sustainable ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE. Keep the plunge spirit alive and raise funds for local charities by taking part at home and on social media!

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The Polar Bear Plunge St Albans is an annual event on New Year's Day which sees brave people of all ages jumping into the icy outdoor waters of the St Albans Sub Aqua Club for charity. This year keep the Polar Bear Plunge spirit alive for local charities Earthworks and Youth Talk by taking part in our SUSTAINABLE ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE! To take part visit: www.polarbearplunge.org.uk/on-the-day
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Polar Bear Plunge St Albans
Read about the surprise NHS wedding for our Polar Bear Plunge paramedics Emily and Ben! Such a lovely story 💙
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New on the blog! Surprise NHS wedding! (as featured on Unconventional Wedding)

Bride and groom-to-be Emily and Ben are both paramedics for the London Ambulance Service. 2020 was supposed to be the year that they got married, but it wasn't to be. This fabulously unconventional styled shoot at gorgeous new rural venue, Dunton Lodge Farm in Hertfordshire features a real couple with a remarkable story.

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❄ Appreciation post!
🥳 Thank you to everyone who took part in keeping the Polar Bear Plunge spirit alive in lockdown this year, including:
Our creative, brave and defiant Plungers!
Earthworks St Albans, and our guest charity Youth Talk
Total Legacy Care, last year's comperes, for their dedicated support - and for plunging in a pond!
Our sponsor Affinity Water
Daisy Cooper for sharing her freezy plunge
DigitalJen for Twitter support
92.6FM Radio Verulam and the The Herts Advertiser
Those who sponsored our plungers
And everyone who shared our social media posts

We hope very much to see you in an icy pool sometime in the future, when we'll be back with an even more spectacular Polar Bear Plunge. 💙
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❄ We are delighted to announce that the winner of the St Albans Polar Bear Plunge fancy dress compeition is... Stanley!
❄ Stanley is a veteran plunger. When his family trip to see relatives in Australia was cancelled, he decided to plunge in his holiday clothes instead: his holiday shirt, koala shorts and sunnies! We hope you warmed up after your Plunge - that ice looked FREEZING. 🥶
❄ Stanley is so brave that he has offered to donate his prize back to the Polar Bear Plunge charities Earthworks and Youth Talk. Thank you, Stanley, for your incredible support for this year's Plunge. 💙
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Stanley wins the Polar Bear Plunge!
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Polar Bear Plunge St Albans
❄ You did it!! A huge Polar Bear hug to all our brave Plungers who Plunged in the last few weeks! ❄ Thank you for keeping the St Albans Polar Bear Plunge spirit alive in lockdown! ❄ Together you have raised an amazing £968.70 + Gift Aid for Earthworks St Albans and this year's guest charity Youth Talk.
🤩 We will let you know the winner of our fancy dress competition this week. And we can't wait to see you all and more in the future when we are able to return to the pool. 🥶
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Polar Bear Plunge St Albans
❄ This is your last chance to WIN £100!
❄ If you haven't yet Plunged, there's still time! Visit www.polarbearplunge.co.uk/on-the-day, do your plunge in fancy dress and either tag us on social media or send to plunge@earthworksstalbans.co.uk TODAY! 🥶🥶🥶
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Polar Bear Plunge St Albans
❄ It's not too late to Plunge for the chance to win £100!

❄ Enter our competition: Send your photos or videos of your Plunge to plunge@earthworksstalbans.co.uk for the chance to win £100. Entries must be in by 8 January.

❄ For full details of how to Plunge visit: www.polarbearplunge.org.uk/on-the-day/
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Contact us

Earthworks St Albans, organiser of the Polar Bear Plunge, is a registered charity number 1067139.

Hixberry Lane, St Albans AL4 0TZ
01727 847311
earthworks @ earthworksstalbans.co.uk

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