Every October, people across the country get into cold water on the same day, to mark the anniversary of Day One and keep Neuroendocrine Cancer in the conversation. The third National Daily Dip 4 Dave Day took place on 10 October 2026. Thank you to everyone who took part. Save the date: the fourth will be on Saturday 9 October 2027. See the details ↓
The 4th National and International Daily Dip 4 Dave Day
One day, everyone, everywhere, in the water. Every beach, lake, river, lido and garden bathtub, in every country, all at once. Get in, take someone with you, and make some noise for Neuroendocrine Cancer. Bigger, louder and more worldwide than ever.
Everyone. Everywhere. In the water.
The first 1,000 were mine. The count is under way, and every act you add moves us closer. Read about 1,000 Acts of Resilient Defiance →
The 1,000-day challenge was one person, alone, in the sea, every day. National Daily Dip 4 Dave Day flips that: one day, but not alone. Wherever you are, whatever water is nearest, getting in on the same day as everyone else is what makes it count.
It doesn't have to be the sea. Rivers, lidos, and garden paddling pools all count too.
A garden bathtub counts too. Genuinely, whatever's nearest.
Gyllyngvase Beach, Falmouth, and wherever else people took their own dip.
See the photos in the news.
The first National Daily Dip 4 Dave Day was held on 12 October 2024. The second followed on 11 October 2025, and the third on 10 October 2026. Each brought people together, in the cold, for the same reason: to be seen, and to be counted.
The scale keeps growing.
People have taken the day and made it their own, in a Scottish sea loch, at Loch Lomond, on a harbourside get-together, and even a workplace swapping shoes for buckets of cold water outside the office. Wherever people are, they've found their own way to be part of it.
Some people have taken the day with them wherever they happened to be: Bondi Beach, a mountain lake in New Zealand, Eric dipping in a river somewhere near Utah, and support from Exmouth, Western Australia. The date travels, even when the person swimming isn't at home.
For something that starts with a hard subject, the day itself is full of warmth. Fancy dress, family, friends leaning on each other, and the odd inflatable unicorn. Resilient defiance doesn't have to look serious to mean something.
Do one small act of resilient defiance and add it to our count of 1,000. Find out how →
Sea, river, lido, or garden paddling pool, wherever you are, a cold dip is still one of the best acts of resilient defiance.
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