More than £12,000 has been raised for charities and good causes this year, thanks to the Tenby Sea Swimming Association (TSSA).

The group has organised the town’s famous Boxing Day Swim for 45 years and is also behind the popular summertime Caldey Swim.

Last Christmas’s event, which featured a Cool Cymru theme, saw nearly 600 dippers taking to the water - many in Welsh-themed costumes, including dragons, Fireman Sam and Dylan Thomas.

A total of £12,116 was raised for local, national and international charities and good causes, taking the total raised in the event’s history to around £260,000.

Topping the fundraisers for the third year in succession were members and friends of Skanda Vale, near Llandysul, who took to the waves with their own fire-breathing dragon.

They raised £2, 846 towards their new six-bed roomed hospice, which will be the only in-patient facility of its kind for Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion.

TSSA’s three nominated charities were Tenby Surflink; the Pembrokeshire carers’ charity, Crossroads and Tenby RNLI.

Surflink and Crossroads each received £1,000, with a special donation of £2,000 being able to be made to the RNLI thanks to donations from Caldey swimmers following the event’s cancellation last summer.

There was also £100 each for swim safety cover providers St. John Ambulance, Tenby coastguard and Pembrokeshire Paddlers and Tenby Sea Cadets who led the beach bonfire builders.

The swim was sponsored by FBM Holidays; Lewis & Lewis, Princes Gate Water and Oakwood.