Tag: fundraising

🏃‍♀️ Run the TCS Sydney Marathon with Team Arrow – Charity Places Now Available! 🏃‍♂️ The TCS Sydney Marathon, now a World Marathon Major candidate event, continues to grow in prestige and popularity — and this year, demand for entries has been higher than ever. With the general ballot now closed and no further places […]

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 […]

Join Lisa Cuthbertson for this year’s Funk Off 40+ Party, and help her Paint the Town Red for Arrow! It will be a (respectably early) night of disco dancing, and will feature iconic drag queen Connie Cartier. When: Sunday 9th Nov 2025, 5 – 9 pm Where: Stonewall Hotel, 175 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst Dress: Red […]

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 […]

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, […]

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’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 […]

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 […]

“We’d only kayaked at night once before. And that was by accident.” That’s not a sentence you expect to hear from someone who has just done their first ever Canoe Classic. The Hawkesbury Classic Paddle is a 111km overnight paddle from Windsor to Mooney Mooney along the majestic Hawkesbury River: an ultra-marathon paddling event. And […]

Wennie van Lint isn’t one to give up easily, and we’re extremely grateful for that, because we’ve just received another $4,500 donation from Wennie’s paddling adventures! You might recall Wennie. We’ve told you about his support of Arrow before. Most recently he decided to take on another big challenge to raise money for Arrow: A […]

Can we all just agree that 250km is a long way to paddle? Most of us would be so daunted by the thought of paddling that far that we would choose to do something else over our summer break, like watch the cricket, perhaps. Not so Wennie van Lint. Wennie is a long-term supporter of […]