Deep Blue Dip 2026!
What is the Deep Blue Dip?
This Easter Saturday – April 4th, take part in spunout’s inaugural event – Deep Blue Dip 2026!
The Deep Blue Dip is a simple challenge:
- Wear Blue repping spunout and highlighting our work
- Take a cold-water dip, before the water warms up
- Capture your moment
- Fundraise for spunout – sign up here
- Start conversations about mental health
Participants choose how they take part:
- 🌊 Sea swim
- 🏞 Lake or river dip
- 🚿 Cold shower challenge
- 👥 Group dips (clubs, workplaces, colleges, families)
It’s inclusive, flexible, and designed so anyone can participate, anywhere.
Can’t take part – Please help support the campaign today!
Why it matters
Young people in Ireland are facing unprecedented pressures – from anxiety and loneliness to financial stress, climate anxiety, and social isolation.
Our impact in 2025
In 2025 alone:
- 3 million young people were reached across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube
- 908,000+ people used the spunout website
- 52,748 conversations took place through the Text About It service
- 38,000+ sessions took place on Navigator, our mental health signposting tool (since its launch in June)
Every day, spunout supports young people through:
- Digital mental health resources
- Professional livechat support
- Text About It (24/7 anonymous text support)
- Education and employment guidance
- Youth-centred wellbeing information
The Deep Blue Dip helps fund these vital services while creating a shared national moment of connection and awareness.
How to take part
1. Sign up
Register as an individual or group and get your Deep Blue Dip pack.
2. Choose your challenge
Pick your dip style – sea, lake, river, shower, or group challenge.
3. Fundraise
Create your fundraising page and invite friends, family, colleagues, or classmates to support you.
4. Share your dip
Post your moment on social media using:
#DeepBlueDip #ForSpunout #YouthMentalHealth
Tag @spunout.ie and help spread the message.
For groups & organisations
Deep Blue Dip is perfect for:
- Workplaces
- Schools & colleges
- Sports clubs
- Community groups
- Volunteer teams
- Youth organisations
We offer:
- Group fundraising pages
- Mental health awareness content
- Internal comms templates
- Impact reporting
This makes it an ideal CSR, wellbeing, and community engagement campaign.
Safety first 🛟
Your safety matters:
- Never dip alone
- Check weather and water conditions
- Enter the water slowly
- Keep dips short
- Wear appropriate footwear
- Warm up properly afterwards
We promote responsible participation, not risk-taking.
The impact of your support
Every dip helps ensure:
- A young person can access mental health support when they need it
- Someone in crisis can text for help
- A student can find guidance
- A young person feels less alone
This is about more than fundraising.
It’s about building a culture where mental health is supported, talked about, and prioritised.
Join the movement
Take the plunge.
Start the conversation.
Support young people.
Feeling blue, find your crew. Join the Whatsapp Group to find a swim near you or set up your own group.
Deep Blue Dip – For Youth Mental Health. For Connection. For Change.
About spunout
spunout is Ireland’s youth information and support platform. By young people, for young people. We empower, inform, hear, and support young people to thrive through trusted digital services, mental health supports, and community programmes.
📩 Want to partner with us?
📣 Want to run Deep Blue Dip in your organisation?
💙 Want a tailored campaign pack?
Get in touch: fundraising@spunout.ie