The McGuinness McDermott Foundation team of 52 participants successfully completed the New York Marathon run in New York City on Sunday 1st November. Part of 43,000 runners, the MMF team (led by Nick Chigwidden from 5AA who ran 3 hours, 12 mins) completed the marathon, watched by a crowd of over 2 million people. The MMF participants have so far raised over $100,000, supporting the pledge to raise $2.5 million to build a new childrens cancer centre at the Womens and Childrens Hospital. The group included Port Adelaide Assistant Coach, Matt Primus, former Crows players Paul Rouvray and Matthew Liptak, former Glenelg Football Club captain Nick Chigwidden, and MMF Executive Director and Chairman, Tony McGuinness. The MMFs next DARE Adventure Tourism tour is to Mt Kilimanjaro in August 2010.

Borneo by Georgina McGuinness: As a jungle trekker and mountain climber, I have decided I make a very good news reader. And never was this more obvious than back in August when I joined 40 other participants in yet another unique fundraising event by the McGuinness McDermott Foundation. Borneo was our destination as we re-traced the steps of around 2,000 Aussie prisoners of war who took part in the Sandakan Death March back in 1945. The 60 kilometre track has only recently been discovered .. along with it, a giant slice of our country's military history, which saw only six soldiers escape the tyranny of their Japanese captors.

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On the 4th October 2007, fifty four brave souls representing the MMF Mud Sweat and Cheers Tour departed the Adelaide spring for the steamy jungle of Papua New Guinea bound for the infamous Kokoda Track. The MMF Tour dubbed the Mud, Sweat and Cheers Challenge will be led by one of South Australia's sporting hero's - Graham Cornes, who himself has a distinguished military background and through his football coaching career inspired his 'troops' to great heights.

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