Month: July 2025

Scholarships for healthcare professionals

Our scholarships for healthcare professionals will be accepting applications from 1st to 30th September 2025. We have opportunities available for nurses and allied healthcare professionals working in the field of bone marrow and stem cell transplant. We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for two scholarships for nurses: the Arrow Professor Geoffrey Driscoll […]

Rolling with the Punches: Jenny’s Journey through Two Bone Marrow Transplants and Beyond

Jenny Nixon is no slouch. She’s a mother to two sets of twins, who she raised as a single mum from when they were six and three years old, and is a proud grandmother to four. She runs her own baking business, and is the self-professed ‘Queen of Melting Moments’ in Wagga Wagga. She is […]

Liverpool Catholic Club: A Champion for the Community

At the heart of Liverpool Catholic Club is community. The club itself boasts a range of amenities all designed to bring people together: to eat, be entertained, skate, get fit, host functions and parties, keep the kids entertained… In short, the club exists to serve the community around it. Part of that local community is […]

Charlotte Pinney’s Sutherland to Surf 2025 for Arrow

Arrow is fortunate to have people taking on all sorts of challenges to raise money for our patient support program. Charlotte Pinney is one of them. Here’s her story in her own words: This year, I will be running in the Sutherland to Surf 2025 alongside my mum and dad to raise funds and awareness […]

Be a bloody good human with Simmo — and help break a record!

Join us on Thursday 31st July as we join forces with Simmo and attempt to set a record for the most blood donations in a single day through a single team.   We’ve arranged for any blood (or plasma) donations made through Arrow’s Lifeblood Team to be included in the Bloody Good Humans effort on […]

From Scholarship to Specialist: Freya Seale’s Haematology Journey 

In 2016, Freya received an Arrow scholarship to support her studies in the Graduate Certificate of Cancer Nursing. At the time, she couldn’t have imagined just how far that opportunity would take her. With a genuine passion for people and an eagerness to learn, Freya’s career has since flourished. She has gone from scholarship to […]

The start of an exciting research career for Ritika Saxena!

We’re delighted to share that Ritika Saxena, one of our recent Hawkesbury Canoe Classic PhD Scholarship recipients, has now submitted her PhD dissertation (entitled Improving the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into functional haematopoietic stem cells, called ‘iHSCs’) at the University of Melbourne. Her journey has been nothing short of extraordinary, and we are […]

Fashionable Fundraising on the Field

Arrow’s dedicated supporters turned out in style this June for a fashionable fundraising event: a glamorous race day at Royal Randwick, hosted by the ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation. The event was part of their ongoing mission to raise vital funds for those in need, including the patients we support here at Arrow. The crisp winter […]