In 2025, Arrow supported four nurses with Travel Scholarships, generously funded by Jazz Pharmaceuticals, to attend the ANZTCT Scientific Meeting on the Gold Coast. Their reflections highlight just how valuable this opportunity was – not only for their professional growth,…
Arrow is proud to announce a series of scholarships awarded to outstanding healthcare professionals, enabling them to pursue advanced studies and attend leading international conferences in 2026. These scholarships are made possible thanks to the generous support of Jazz Pharmaceuticals,…
When Bianca thinks back to the year her daughter Addison underwent treatment for Severe Aplastic Anaemia, she says simply: “I didn’t live in the real world for a year. A whole year, missing in action.” For families facing bone marrow…
Our Annual General Meeting was a special evening filled with inspirational speakers and wonderful updates. It was a significant year for Arrow, and we enjoyed the opportunity to reflect and celebrate the people, programs and progress that shaped the 2025…
The Hawkesbury Canoe Classic 2025: An Event to Remember The Hawkesbury Canoe Classic is a 111 kilometre marathon canoe race down the beautiful Hawkesbury River in Australia. It is not only an endurance event, but also an outstanding fundraiser, having…
Thanks to generous funding from Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Arrow awarded three nurses a travel scholarship to attend the Blood Conference in Perth, Australia in October 2025. Here is what the scholarship recipients had to say about the conference and their scholarships:…
Blood Conference 2025 Perth The Blood Conference is an annual conference for clinicians to discuss all things blood. It is hosted by the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand (HSANZ), Australia and New Zealand and International Society of Blood…
Arrow’s bespoke fundraising campaign, Paint the Town Red, has been another big success in 2025, just in its second year of running. Each year the campaign grows stronger, and this September during Blood Cancer Awareness month, it raised over $30,000…
Graham Lewis insists that “fun run” is most definitely an oxymoron, and that there’s nothing fun about it, especially when the weather is cold and miserable. And cold and miserable it was when Graham completed this year, only the third…
At Arrow, we couldn’t be prouder of the achievements of our scholarship recipients. The latest round of scholarships has delivered outstanding results, with nurses returning Distinctions and High Distinctions in their post graduate studies. Cristina Lucas Cristina Lucas from…
In August this year, the Australia and New Zealand meeting of the International Society of Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT ANZ) was held in Manly, and we are pleased to have been able to help Siow Teng attend. Siow Teng…
Laura Garbo recently completed her first major Marathon, an incredible achievement made even more meaningful by her decision to run in support of Arrow, raising over $2,000 for stem cell transplant patients. The Arrow cause is close to Laura’s heart,…
St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney has marked a remarkable milestone: the 50th anniversary of Australia’s very first bone marrow transplant. The commemoration began with Associate Professor Anthony Dodds, who reflected on that groundbreaking moment in 1975 when the first bone marrow…
The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) have recently concluded an excellent piece of research into what matters most to those dealing with paediatric stem cell transplants, and we are proud to have played some small part in that project through…
Meet Laura McMahon, acting Clinical Nurse Educator at The Kinghorn Cancer Centre at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. Laura knows a lot about apheresis. And not just as a nurse. Roughly a decade ago, back in Ireland, Laura’s own brother…
100 years of life What does 100 years of life look like after a bone marrow transplant? It looks like Lisa, Jonathon, and Kerrin — three extraordinary Australians who’ve not only survived bone marrow transplants, but have gone on to…
This year our Fundraising Manager, Kags Garrard, was joined by colleagues and friends to form Team Arrow, as they took on the 2025 City 2 Surf. Below, Kags reflects on a successful day: Last weekend, I laced up my running…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
