The McGuinness McDermott Foundation was launched on the 30th May 1996 by Tony McGuinness and Chris McDermott. Tony and Chris were both ex players and captains of the Adelaide Crows football team. During their time with the Crows, they got to know two young boys who were struggling with Cancer.

Chris met Nathan Maclean who had been diagnosed with a rare brain tumour. The two became friends and this was a friendship which would endure until Nathan passed away in February 1993. Tony met Nicholas Berry who was battling Kidney Cancer, whilst he was at a fun day at Glenelg organised by the hospital. Tony and Nic hit it off straight away and they keenly followed each others progress for the next 2 1/2 years which was the duration of Nic's treatment. Medical science ran out of answers for Nic on the 6th December 1994 when he left us.

Tony and Chris were so touched by the boys' lives, brave struggles and deaths, that they felt compelled to do something constructive. So the Foundation was launched in memory of Nic and Nathan with a view to improving all areas of Oncology treatment facilities for children in South Australia.

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