Coldingham Brave Bayers CIC
Coldingham Brave Bayers CIC is women and disability led and exists to support people to connect with blue and green spaces across the Scottish Borders through wild swimming and associated activities, including lakes, lochs, reservoirs, rivers and coastal waters.
Our purpose is to make nature-based water activities safe, inclusive and accessible, ensuring that people of all ages, backgrounds, abilities and identities can benefit from improved physical health, mental wellbeing and social connection. We create welcoming spaces where participants feel supported, informed and confident to engage at their own pace.
Through community swims, structured wellbeing programmes, 121 and group coaching, water safety days and environmental activities, we help individuals build skills, resilience, and confidence in open water settings. Water safety is embedded throughout our work with qualified open water coaches and delivered in partnership with organisations including St Abbs Independent Lifeboat, RNLI and Water Safety Scotland, ensuring best practice and shared responsibility.
Our wellbeing programmes particularly support women exploring the relationship between changing bodies, nature connection and self-care, offering practical tools alongside lived experience. These programmes recognise the powerful role that the natural environment can play in emotional regulation, recovery, and long-term health.
We also deliver corporate and group sessions, support volunteering opportunities and work collaboratively with local groups and charities to strengthen community capacity and inclusion. Together, these initiatives position Coldingham Bay and surrounding waters as a positive change zone — a place where people can reconnect with themselves, others, and the natural world.
At the heart of Coldingham Brave Bayers is a belief that access to open water should not be a privilege, but a shared community resource that nurtures wellbeing, belonging and care for our environment
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Head office:
The Thorn, High Street, Coldingham, TD14 5NL, Scottish Borders
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