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Family of Maddy Cusack launch fundraiser to create foundation in her honour
The Star, Sheffield
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21/02/2024
Family of Maddy Cusack launch fundraiser to create foundation in her honour
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So I'm Richard, I'm Maddie's elder brother, the oldest of four and this is my sister Olivia.
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Yeah so I am number three and we have set up a foundation in our sister's honour so it's
00:12
the Maddie Cusack Foundation and our hopes really are to inspire the next generation of
00:21
female footballers so it's about making a difference within women's football both on
00:27
and off the pitch and helping them as they move up into the game really. Yeah I think we really
00:33
want to continue Maddie's legacy which was about creating an opportunity for young girls to get
00:39
into football and provide them with a chance to become a footballer and also to just really
00:46
continue keeping Maddie in the sort of the forefront of the public conscience really to
00:51
be honest that's what we want to get out of this isn't it really? Yeah so Maddie she worked at
00:56
Sheffield United's Community Foundation and she started working with younger girls and helped them
01:04
kind of find their feet within football and she helped a number of them get into the game through
01:11
helping them out with different clubs and facilities, equipment and it's really important
01:17
for us as her siblings to carry on that legacy like Richard said and just carry on with the work
01:24
that she started doing really. Maddie's role as the Community Foundation which was her first job
01:30
at Sheffield United was to sort of create those opportunities and create the chances for people
01:34
who maybe don't have the access to anything they need to be given what they need to succeed really
01:40
to be honest and have an impact on the community and those who are perhaps less fortunate and with
01:45
less opportunity and also I think Maddie was always one of the last people at a match taking
01:51
photos of youngsters and talking to them and just being generally nice and friendly wasn't she so
01:56
yeah really kind of it's continuing her the impact that she would have had if she was here it's
02:01
about continuing that isn't it? Yeah so on the foundation social media we put out a post calling
02:08
all aspiring footballers and we've had a number of young girls, parents, family members ranging
02:15
from sort of five to late teens who have kind of shared their stories with us about how Maddie
02:21
impacted them whether they'd met her themselves or just through like watching her on the pitch
02:26
so it's been really nice to put like faces to names and experiences. Maddie would often tell
02:32
us about girls that she'd meet or like met through football so it was really nice to be able to
02:38
share their stories as well because the foundation for us is really about creating a community feel
02:44
making everybody feel heard and involved which is what Maddie always tried to do herself so
02:50
that's we're just trying to carry on that really through social media. Yeah and it's you're seeing
02:55
now like a tangible effect of what Maddie was to people aren't you? You're seeing that in real
03:01
sort of in front of your eyes which is a time of great sadness and sorrow it's a real comfort
03:05
for me and my family. Yeah we had a vigil at Bramall Lane a couple of weeks ago and the
03:12
inspiration for the foundation came from a little girl that we met she was called Madison she came
03:19
over to us as a family which was really really lovely and comforting at the time and she expressed
03:24
that she well she had a t-shirt on with a picture of Maddie her name on it and introduced herself as
03:30
Madison but said she was going to change her name to Maddie in honour of our sister and she explained
03:36
that she'd met Maddie before her family her parents were there as well they had lots of pictures with
03:40
Maddie which they've sent over to us with like a little testimony if you like of their experience
03:45
with her and I remember my mum said to Madison she said now you need to play for Maddie like this is
03:52
your chance to you know keep her legacy alive so it was that was a turning point where we thought
03:58
like we really want to get on like do the foundation and make a difference for little girls
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like Madison as they move up through the women's game that was it was lovely to be able to put
04:08
like a face to the foundation if you like and that was our inspiration wasn't it?
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