Tag: financial support

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 shoes alongside friends and colleagues to take part in Sydney’s iconic City2Surf. For those who’ve never […]

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 […]

Arrow is fortunate to have been named a beneficiary of the ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation’s fundraising efforts this year, and you could win a new car! The raffle they’re running this year has a prize pool valued at over $29,000 with a Hyundai i30 hatchback as the first prize! Tickets are just $20 each (or less […]

“How are you doing today?” It’s an innocuous question for most of us, something we ask often without really listening to the answer. But hardship can happen to anyone. “I’ll tell you on Tuesday,” was the answer I got when I asked this of Josee. Tuesday is the day Josee and her husband Joseph will […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Settle down, get married, have kids, endure the sleepless nights, kiss the bruises better, console them for lost first loves, support them through high school and uni. Watch them settle down, get married, have kids… And so it goes, right? Not always. For so many families, the joy and comfort found in the mundane routines […]

Thank you to long term supporters Liverpool Catholic Club who have donated an amazing $70,000 to the Arrow Bone Marrow Transplant Foundation. Liverpool Catholic Club have been supporting Arrow for over six years. This recent donation brings their total contribution to Arrow’s bone marrow and stem cell research programs to over $250,000 resulting in significant […]