Category: Supporter Stories

Thanks to the ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation for their donation of $31,622 to Arrow’s patient support program. The ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation raise funds through a number of amazing charity events held over the course of a year including a race day, gala ball, golf day, sailing regatta and their very successful “Markets Day for […]

The Arrow Jazz Pharmaceutical Travel Conference scholarship was established this year to help healthcare professionals working in haematology pursue their research and continuing education goals. Funded by a generous $20,000 donation by Jazz Pharmaceuticals, the scholarship supports nurses as well as allied health professionals, researchers and data managers. This year, the scholarship attracted a number […]

The Allan Frenkel Foundation was born in 1997, the year Allan would have been 19. Allan Frenkel is described as joyful and happy young man, the life of the party, and always ready for fun. That’s how Allan’s family and friends remember him. Those fond memories are also tinged with great sadness though, because one […]

After a three-year hiatus due to COVID in 2020 and again in 2021, and then the devastating floods of 2022, it was a pleasure to be able to attend the start of the 2023 Hawkesbury Canoe Classic. And what a fabulous event it was! Hundreds of paddlers, along with their supporting land crew, gathered at […]

ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation Raffle: WIN A CAR! Buy a raffle ticket for just $20 in the ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation Raffle, and you could win a car valued at over $26,000!!! There is also a MacBook Air valued at $1,499, or a case of premium wine valued at $1,380 up for grabs as second […]

Bone marrow failure syndromes (BMFS) are rare and complex syndromes where the body fails to make sufficient blood cells, leading to many significant disruptions to health. People with BMFS — and they’re usually children or young adults — are often severely anaemic, or they may suffer from internal bleeding, and they often have extremely low […]

Thanks to RITCHIES IGA, the simple act of putting food on your own table can help us put food on the table of families going through bone marrow transplants. Bone marrow transplants are grueling, and often require many months in hospital, plus many months after that in recovery. Bone marrow transplant recipients (or their carer […]

Thank you to the Liverpool Catholic club! Here at Arrow, we look forward to the day when bone marrow transplants (BMT) are a thing of the past. Until then we will continue to fund promising medical research in BMT related areas, and provide financial support for patients and their families. We are forever grateful to […]

This month we attended the ASX Refinitiv ‘Racing for Good’ Charity Race Day at Randwick Racecourse. This is the first of several fundraising events the ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation is hosting that will benefit Arrow. These events will raise over $20,000 towards our Patient Support Program which provides real and practical financial assistance to people […]

We have recently received an extremely generous donation from the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic (HCC) Association of $25,000 to help support our work here at Arrow. It is an especially generous donation this year because their event, the 111km overnight paddle down the Hawkesbury River, hasn’t been able to run for the last three years: two […]

Our attendance at the recent BLOOD Conference was a runaway success. How do we know? Because since then, we have built new relationships with many social workers across several new hospitals, and the number of families who have asked us for financial assistance has doubled. What a terrific outcome! A doubling of the number of […]

High Achiever.  That’s an apt description for Wennie van Lint. He has been an academic (Head of Department, no less), has had a football career including a couple of games with South Melbourne (now known as Sydney Swans) and is currently a Leader in finance and economics with GHD Advisory.  And what does that have […]