Addison’s Story: How Arrow Helped One Family Through the Hardest Year
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 or stem cell transplants, that feeling is all too familiar. Life becomes hospital rooms, long […]
AGM Highlights: Reflecting on Our Impact in FY 2025
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 financial year. Thank you to everyone who attended, either in person or online, and to […]
Hawkesbury Canoe Classic 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 raised over $4.5 million for medical research since its inception 46 years ago. Arrow has […]
Arrow Foundation Celebrates ASX Markets Day for Charity 2025
On 18 November 2025, Australia’s financial community came together for the sixth annual ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation Markets Day for Charity — an event that once again demonstrated the impact collective goodwill can have. For one day of trading, ASX, nabtrade, and other participating financial institutions donated their trading and brokerage fees for the day […]
Blood 2025 Scholarship Reports
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: Brooke Grech Brooke Grech is a Registered Nurse on the Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Ward […]
Arrow goes to Blood 2025
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 Transfusion, and Thrombosis and Haemostasis Society of Australia and New Zealand. This year’s conference was […]
Paint the Town Red another Big Success in 2025!
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 to support patients and families affected by stem cell transplants! Graham Lewis: Turning Red into […]
Nothing fun about it, according to Graham Lewis
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 time it’s rained for the event in the past 50 years according to Graham. 2025 […]
Flying Colours for our Nurses
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 St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney was awarded an Arrow scholarship in 2023 and has recently completed […]
Siow Teng’s work presented at ISCT ANZ, Manly
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 is a scientist and Production Supervisor at Hudson Cell Therapies, a behind-the-scenes but important role […]
Sydney Marathon – Laura’s run for Francesca
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, adding extra significance to her first Sydney Marathon which she described as “a fabulous experience, […]
Celebrating 50 Years since Australia’s First Bone Marrow Transplant
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 transplant was performed. He paid tribute to the extraordinary teamwork and donor generosity that made […]