2024 Courage Polar Bear Dip

January 1, 2024

January 1, 2024

Fundraise

Coronation Park, Oakville

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Events Description

 

Call them crazy if you want, but every New Year’s day hundreds of people jump into Lake Ontario’s icy-cold water for one purpose – to raise money in support of fresh water projects in developing countries around the world. This year marks the 39th year that Courage Polar Bear Dip for World Vision has taken place, raising a total of over $2 million to date.
Dressed in just about anything from bikinis, baby New Year costumes and Santa outfits to costumes designed with such imagination that it can leave you awestruck, these dippers sacrifice themselves each year to help others.

Funds raised at the 39th annual Courage Polar Bear Dip will help provide a dependable source of clean water for World Vision’s WASH water projects in Ethiopia and Zambia. This entails building safe water points (wells or reservoirs) and partnering with local utility companies to provide piped water directly to households. These efforts reduce the suffering and disease caused by drinking dirty water and allow children to spend time in school rather than trekking to distant water sources.

HOW MUCH

Tickets: Donation/Fundraise

$30 registration fee

How to get tickets?

Buy Online

WHEN & WHERE

Date & Time:

Monday, January 1, 2024

12:30pm | Registration Opens, Live Music and Festivities Begin
– All dippers must check-in at the registration desk to get their dipper & spotter wristbands and T-shirt
– Live music on stage from Warren Jones
– Bring cash for the BBQ from Tin Cup Oakville or to grab a hot drink
– Washrooms from Natures Call on site

1:15pm | Costume Contest
– Prizes for best individual and best group costumes

2pm | DIP!
– Stay dressed and warm right up until the Dip
– Know where your spotter is on the beach with your towel and warm clothes
– Wear water shoes or old runners (No flip flops!) and when you get out – warm your feet first!
– Heated change tents on site

4pm | Post-Dip Party at Tin Cup Oakville
– Join us as we celebrate another great event
– Percentage of food sales go back to the Dip
– Buy raffle tickets for prizes courtesy of Shoppers Drug Mart at Third Line & Dundas

 

Venue: Coronation Park, 1426 Lakeshore Rd W, Oakville, ON L6L 1G2
Parking at Coronation Park fills quickly so head over to South Oakville Centre at 1515 Rebecca St
(park near The Beer Store) and grab the FREE shuttle bus from Attridge Transportation.
Bus starts at 12:15 and runs on a loop until the event is over

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