Chilly Dippers was set up whilst I was at University in Edinburgh to encourage students to change up their routines and incorporate more of the outdoors. Cold-water swimming has been praised for relieving relative stresses and anxieties through the icy-shock, which provides a release of Endorphins (the happiness hormone) and an increase in Adrenaline. It's a space where your body hits the 'Fight or Flight' mode, sidelining all other problems to help you focus on how you will simply stay afloat. The sense of achievement I have from wild-swimming is something I wanted to share with friends who I had noticed were not dealing with the stresses of everyday life particularly well. The Chilly Dippers meet-ups in both Edinburgh & London are set out to create a space in which people feel comfortable trying something new and plunging themselves into the freezing cold.