Why Are We “Splashing” Into Boston Harbor on Sunday, March 6th?

 Why Are We “Splashing” Into Boston Harbor on Sunday, March 6th?
To have some fun and raise funds for free beach programs from Nahant to Nantasket.

In 2015, splashers raised more than $30,000 for free events and programs on beaches in
Lynn, Nahant, Revere, Winthrop, East Boston, South Boston, Dorchester, Quincy and Hull.
 
To register, start a team or make a donation visit www.shamrocksplash.org

This Sunday, March 6th, hundreds of costumed beach lovers will plunge into the icy waters of Boston Harbor at this year’s Harpoon Shamrock Splash for Save the Harbor/Save the Bay at the BCYF Curley Community Center in South Boston at noon. Participants, who compete for great prizes including JetBlue flights for best costume and biggest fundraiser, have already raised more than $30,000 to support free “Better Beaches” events and programs from Nahant to Nantasket.

Save the Harbor began the tradition in 2011 as the Harpoon Helps Cupid Splash, a cold-water "plunge and pledge" fundraiser to raise money to support free Better Beaches events and programs on the region's public beaches from Nahant to Nantasket.  In 2015, with the support of the legislative members of the Metropolitan Beaches Commission and the Department of Conservation and Recreation, Save the Harbor secured additional funds to support the Better Beaches Program.

As a result, last year Save the Harbor and DCR awarded more than $200,000 in grants to 35 organizations in nine waterfront neighborhoods and beachfront communities to support 70 free concerts, family beach festivals, competitive swims, movie nights, campfires, story telling and art on the shore in Lynn, Nahant, Revere, Winthrop, East Boston, South Boston, Dorchester, Quincy and Hull.

“All of these great events have one thing in common,” said Save the Harbor/Save the Bay’s President Patty Foley. “They bring people together to strengthen their communities and enjoy our region's most stunning natural resources, the 19 miles of DCR’s public swimming beaches that connect us to each other and to Boston Harbor, Mass Bay and Broad Sound.”

Save the Harbor would like to thank our foundation funding partners The Boston Foundation, the Richard Saltonstall Charitable Foundation, the Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable Trust, our corporate sponsors Harpoon, JetBlue, Comcast and National Grid and the hundreds of participants and donors to the Harpoon Shamrock Splash for their support. 

We would also like to thank Metropolitan Beaches Commission Co-Chairs Senator Tom McGee and Representative RoseLee Vincent and the legislative and community members of the Commission, the Baker-Polito Administration and our partners at the Department of Conservation and Recreation for making this great program possible.

To register for the Harpoon Shamrock Splash, start a team or make a donation visit www.shamrocksplash.org

To find out more about Save the Harbor/Save the Bay and DCR’s Better Beaches Program,
visit http://www.blog.savetheharbor.org/2016/02/a-spectacular-summer-on-your-beach_12.html

For more information about Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, visit our website at www.savetheharbor.org
and like or follow savetheharbor on Facebook and twitter.

 

See you on the beach on Sunday.
Registration opens at 11:00. The Splash will take place at noon.