I'm fundraising by participating in my first ever cycle event, cycling 60 very hilly miles across the South Downs for "Little Lumpy" on 21 May.

When our son William was stillborn full term in August 2020, we entered a new world of baby-loss that we hadn't known existed. We didn't know anyone who had suffered a stillbirth - we didn't really think it happened. Suddenly we were planning our baby's funeral, instead of walking proudly round the village with the pram. How do you go about planning such a thing? It is every parents' nightmare. I found it difficult to voice my feelings as I think many men do, and found the anger that I felt really hard to deal with. One day very early on, I decided I need to go and buy a bike. Getting out on my bike was the only thing that helped. I could find space to think and to try and process everything and scream into miles of empty countryside. As the bike was the thing that saved me, it feels right to use my bike to try to help others going through similar tragedy. Therefore I have signed up to my first ever cycle event which is The Little Lumpy, a 60 mile race across the hills of the South Downs. It will be quite a challenge for me as it's the furthest I've ever cycled.

Any money I raise will be used to help fund a book that my wife Emily is writing alongside her bereavement midwife and another bereaved mum. The book is a collection of real stories from parents and grandparents about their experiences of baby loss and guidance about planning funerals, making memories and supporting young siblings. Through our fundraising, we will be able to make the book free to all women suffering baby loss at Woking and Guildford hospitals. We hope that we may be able to expand the project to cover all NHS hospitals in the country. We know how much this book would have helped us and we hope that it can provide support to other parents going through similar heartache.