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 […]
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 […]
Diamond-Blackfan Anaemia, and Poppy’s fight for life.
Poppy Pickett has had more than a lifetime’s worth of medical poking and prodding, with transfusion after transfusion, endless visits to hospitals and specialists, and months in isolation. And she’s only five years old. Poppy was diagnosed with Diamond-Blackfan Anaemia (DBA) just six weeks after she was born. DBA is a rare disease in which […]
Continuing Education for Sherry Jia
We’re pleased to be able to support the continuing education of Sherry Jia, a nurse from the Cancer Centre at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. Sherry is the most recent recipient of the Professor Geoffrey Driscoll Nursing Scholarship which will help fund Sherry as she completes the Graduate Certificate of Cancer Nursing through the […]
International conferences, and why we help people attend
Why does a charity invest in sending nurses and allied health professionals and researchers to conferences, especially international conferences like the 51st EBMT (formerly the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation) Scientific Meeting, recently held in Florence? Because it matters, and because it makes a difference. By sending a healthcare professional to a conference, […]
Living with long-term GvHD – Serina’s story
Thursday 7th November 2002 is a day Serina Dosen will never forget. It’s the day she received her new stem cells, and a second chance at life. But it’s also the day she began her “new normal” life, with a body that requires more care than most. Serina is living with long-term GvHD. “Looking after […]
Thank you to ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation
This month, we were honored to receive a generous donation of $31,953 from ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation, presented to our Fundraising Manager, Kags Garrard, by Barbara Colvin and Gerard Doyle from the ASX Foundation. This incredible donation reflects a full year of amazing fundraising events hosted by the ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation including their Golf […]
Dry July – what an amazing result!
It’s time to pop the (non-alcoholic) champagne and say a big THANK YOU to Dry July and everyone who participated to support Arrow in the 2024 campaign. It was our first ever Dry July here at Arrow, and we were left reeling with amazement at the support we received through your fundraising efforts: $45,000 raised […]
Local travel conference scholarships awarded!
We’re pleased to announce that five healthcare professionals have received Arrow travel & conference scholarships, sponsored by Jazz Pharmaceuticals Australia, to attend conferences within Australia dedicated to bone marrow and stem cell transplant and cellular therapies. Congratulations to: Maureen O Brien – Donor and Search Clinical Nurse Consultant at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne Nicola Roborgh […]