A MOBBERLEY personal trainer is staging a charity fitness boot camp for a unit which helped to save his child’s life.

Glenn Williams, who runs Cheshire Fitness from the Cheshire Health Club in Mobberley, is raising money for a neonatal fund that helps premature and sick babies in the north west.

His daughter Poppy was born after a 24-week pregnancy on November 11 and he was told, along with wife Kirsty, that she would only have a 50 per cent chance of surviving the birth and a 26 per cent chance of surviving the first 24 hours.

Poppy weighed just 1lb 7oz when she born at Macclesfield Hospital before being transferred to Liverpool Womens Hospital, a speciality neonatal unit that cares for premature babies.

Glenn said: “Poppy was a born fighter and defeated the odds.

“Poppy suffered numerous infections, collapsed lungs, heart murmur and laser eye surgery. Eventually after 10 weeks in intensive care and four weeks in high dependency she was transferred back to Macclesfield a week before her due date.

“We finally brought her home on March 13, weighing just 6lb 1oz. We can never thank the doctors and nurses enough for saving her life so we have decided to raises funds for the unit.”

The boot camp starts at 11am on Saturday, April 13 at Wilmslow High School. Admissions is £10 per person, with all proceeds going to charity.