Swim-a-Thon 2024-2025!
Welcome to Swim-A-Thon!
On behalf of the WLBF board and coaching staff, we are excited to announce that our annual Swim-A-Thon fundraiser is now active! This is an essential fundraiser for our club and one that our swimmers look forward to every year.
Getting Started:
Swimmers are expected to create their own profile, which they can then share with friends and family far and wide, who will be able to donate with just a few clicks. Parents may need to go in and help swimmers register and set up their profiles.
Even if you participated last year, you will need to create a NEW profile.
The fundraising website can be found here: https://donate.swimming.ca
Fundraising Expectations:
Competitive swimmers (Juniors, Seniors) $100 minimum
Pre-competitive swimmers (Super Novice, Swim Fit) $50 minimum
Non-competitive swimmer (Novice) $25 minimum
*Everyone will participate in the swim event no matter how much they have raised. It is incredible to see just what our swimmers are capable of swimming!
Prizes + Incentives:
Our goal this year is to raise $10000
Weekly prize incentives and team challenges will be announced Sundays
Top Fundraising Roster gets a special prize!
Overall awards for fundraising and for swimming by age and gender
Cut off for donations counting towards prizes/awards - Wednesday May 28
Donations kindly accepted until May 31, 2025
And yes—we’re still riding high from our huge win last year, when WLBF raised the most money per registered swimmer in all of Canada! That earned us an unforgettable visit from Olympian Ingrid Wilm. Let’s keep that streak going!
Please visit the link, create a profile and share your profile link with friends and family and help us to make this year’s Swim-a-Thon a success! Thank you, and happy fundraising!
How It Works
The Swim-a-Thon is an annual, national fundraiser in which swim clubs from all over Canada participate. Unlike other fundraisers which can have more substantial costs associated with them, our club receives just over 90% of all money raised: money which directly supports our team. Swimmers will raise money through donations and pledges and in return will swim as much as they can as quickly as they can within their groups time limit. One of the best parts of Swim-a-Thon is that it is synonymous with prizes! We have a number of great individual and group incentives for our swimmers when they reach different benchmarks.
FUNDRAISING
Ask everyone for donations!
The bonus of having our fundraiser supported online means kids can ask for donations safely and easily, and family and friends are able to support your swimmer with a few easy clicks. Have your swimmer make a video to post on social media, create posters for office lunchrooms, write letters to family friends. The more personalized the better!
IDEAS
Ask for sponsorships!
Beyond asking for a lump sum, a great way to raise money is for your swimmer to ask to be sponsored by lap or length of the pool they complete. People often underestimate just how much swimmers can do! A buck a lap can add up quite quickly, and it helps keep swimmers motivated to push a little harder when it comes time for them to swim. Swimmers are also encouraged to come up with challenges which they can receive sponsors for (ie. for every length of butterfly, get double the dollars).