NOTTINGHAM Rugby Club players joined an event to help raise funds for a hospice's day centre appeal.

Treetops Hospice, based at Risley, near Ilkeston, wants to recruit runners for a team to take part in the Experian Robin Hood Festival of Running.

Money raised will go towards its bid to build a new day centre for people with life-limiting diseases.

An event at the Victoria Centre saw treadmills and a surf board simulator installed to encourage people to sign up.

Members of the Nottingham Rugby team were among those who turned up to try out the facilities.