Barwon Health's Andrew Love Cancer Centre, Geelong

Every dollar will help improve cancer care, close to home.

Thanks to the incredible support of our Dry July community in 2025, Barwon Health Foundation was able to fund new chemotherapy chairs, wellness programs, specialist equipment and patient support initiatives at Barwon Health’s Andrew Love Cancer Centre and cancer services, that continue to improve the experience of local cancer patients every day.

In 2026, we're aiming high!

Together, we hope to fund:

💙 $45,000 - Wellness programs and patient support services that provide comfort, connection and care beyond treatment.

💙 $56,019 - Seven additional chemotherapy chairs, ensuring more patients can receive treatment comfortably and helping meet growing demand.

💙 $20,000 - Specialised exercise equipment for Baxter 6, supporting cancer patients to maintain strength, mobility and wellbeing throughout treatment and recovery.

Every fundraiser, every donation and every alcohol-free day in July helps bring these projects closer to reality.

Together, we're helping ensure local cancer patients receive not only exceptional treatment, but the comfort, dignity and support they deserve.

Thank you for your help in making a lasting difference this Dry July across our region.

Cancer wasn't something Taz ever expected.

She was busy enjoying life, building her career and looking ahead to the future when she was suddenly faced with a life-changing and life-threatening cancer diagnosis.

The months that followed were incredibly tough. Throughout her treatment, Taz experienced first-hand the exceptional care and compassion of the teams at Barwon Health's Andrew Love Cancer Centre and the dedicated nurses on Baxter 6, who supported her through some of her most difficult days.

Now, Taz is sharing her story to help raise awareness of the incredible work happening every day across Barwon Health's cancer services, and to encourage others to support Dry July so more local patients can benefit from the same care.

"There is nowhere else I'd rather receive treatment than here in Geelong. The care I've received has been incredible, and our community has wrapped its arms around me every step of the way. Supporting Dry July is my way of giving something back and helping ensure others receive that same support."

Every dollar raised through Dry July stays local, helping improve cancer care, patient support and wellbeing for people across our region.

Throughout July, we'll be sharing more of Taz's journey and showing the real impact your fundraising has on local families.

Thank you for standing beside patients like Taz and helping improve cancer care close to home. 💙

Dry July 2025 funds will help Barwon Health fund its patient transport service and wellness and supportive care programs at the Andrew Love Cancer Centre.

Barwon Health's free patient transport service ensures that cancer patients can reach critical appointments such as chemotherapy and specialist care. Last year alone, volunteer drivers provided nearly 400 trips per month, preventing missed treatments and hospitalisations.

Thanks to Dry July 2025 participants, Barwon Health can also provide comfort and care therapies and wellness programs delivered at the Andrew Love Cancer Centre. The therapies include exercise and art therapy which provide patients receiving treatment both as inpatients and day stay patients with physical, mental and emotional health benefits. The funds will also support activities within the Wellness Lounge.

"Because of your heartfelt support of Dry July 2025 and Barwon Health's Andrew Love Cancer Centre, you have made an extraordinary impact on people in our community facing cancer. Because of you, local cancer patients can access vital care, comfort and wellness therapies here in Geelong, when they need them most.

It means a wig that restores confidence, a yoga session that eases anxiety, and a volunteer driver who ensures transport to vital treatment. You have also helped to provide crucial equipment and other wellness therapies that directly enhances patient care.

Thank you for standing so compassionately beside our community and for making a lasting difference - close to home."

- Zoe Waters, Executive Director, Barwon Health Foundation

By choosing Barwon Health’s Andrew Love Cancer Centre, Geelong as your Dry July 2025 beneficiary you’re making a powerful impact by supporting cancer patients across the Barwon South West region.

Your support will help improve the lives of people undergoing cancer treatment here in Geelong by giving them access to the comfort, care and support they need, right when they need it most.

This Dry July, we invite you to put down the drink and pick up a cause that truly matters -supporting cancer patients right here in our community.

Your fundraising will help improve the lives of people undergoing cancer treatment across our region - giving them access to the comfort, care, and support they need, right when they need it most.

We’re excited to see what we can achieve together in 2025. Whether it’s your first time going Dry or you're back to break your personal best, your participation matters. Let’s unite as a community and set a new fundraising record for Barwon Health’s Andrew Love Cancer Centre and cancer services.

Michelle James said choosing Barwon Health’s Andrew Love Cancer Centre and cancer services was a no brainer once she realised her Dry July fundraising could directly support the facility.

Five years ago Michelle was diagnosed with Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Although a Ballarat local, she was introduced to Geelong’s Andrew Love Cancer Centre by her doctor after it was discovered her growths were very large and treatment needed. She was fortunate to be accepted into a Barwon Health cancer clinical trial for two years.

Michelle says the treatment at Andrew Love has been amazing and all the staff she has encountered take a personal interest in you and your care and have your best interested at heart.

“It’s an honour to be a Dry July ambassador and I am super proud to support the amazing health facility that is Andrew Love Cancer Centre. It was a no brainer that I should give back for all the help they have given me.”

Michelle is picture here hiking the 64km Three Capes Walk in Tasmania, something she says she would not have had the capacity to complete without the medical intervention by the team at Barwon Health.

You can donate to Michelle’s Dry July journey here.