When you lose everything from a FREAK ACCIDENT what do you do?    ….Go Swim the Channel!

Come to the Late Late Breakfast on…

February 10th, 2023… and hear an extraordinary story from Jim Read.

Leave inspired, moved and ready to deal with any challenge…

At 25, Jim was a hardworking mechanical engineer, successfully climbing a competitive career ladder in the steel industry as well as a budding golf player with a handicap of 9, a motorbike racer and a member of the local rugby team. Everything was looking up, and he was living an enviable lifestyle, until a freak work accident on 27th July 2015 left Jim paralysed from the waist down with multiple vertebrae fractures, numerous prolapsed discs, a spinal cord compression and a brain haemorrhage.

Jim went from struggling to walk and swimming one length, to taking on a 10km Lake District swim across Coniston Water.  Then swimming the English Channel and next swimming from Jersey to France (then back to Jersey) in 2022.  A total distance of 65km over 16 hours. His complete story will astound you.