A father from Kirkby, who lost his baby daughter in February just 30 days after her birth, is taking on a fitness challenge to honour Rosie's memory by raising funds for incubator covers at Nottingham hospitals. The fundraiser has raised more than £13,000 thus far.
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00:00My name's Ryan Perkins, I'm Rose's father. I'm basically raising funds for an awareness
00:08for mental health and premature babies. So the end goal is raise enough money to provide
00:15cot covers for all the incubators at the Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital.
00:22So at the moment we've provided every premature baby a mini baby boot for the whole entire year
00:29for this year and next year so that's like a little cot comforter for the baby to have
00:36and then the main goal is to get cot covers as well sorted.
00:40So what are you doing to raise the money?
00:43We're doing a sprint triathlon every day from the 10th of October to the 17th of November
00:48so that's a 2.5k run, a 2.5k row and a 5k bike ride.
00:54What's the money you've raised so far?
00:57In total we've raised just under £14,000 and between this and a high rocks that one
01:03of the staff members have done here we've raised just under a thousand I believe.