North West Cancer Centre, Tamworth

In Dry July 2026, you helped the North West Cancer Centre, Tamworth raise $3,971, which will provide safe, comfortable accommodation for people travelling long distances for cancer treatment.

At Inala House, the purpose-built accommodation facility located alongside the North West Cancer Centre, the funds raised will support bathroom refurbishments. These upgrades will improve comfort, safety and accessibility, helping make time away from home a little easier for patients and carers travelling from across the New England and North West regions.

"Thank you to all the participants who have supported the North West Cancer Centre with the Dry July campaign for 2026.

We are always very grateful for the donations we receive for our centre and our community.

The support makes such a difference for our cancer patients within the North West region allowing us to purchase equipment and provide services that may otherwise not be available to our patients and their families and carers. This greatly improves the patient’s experience during their treatment.

The difference local community fundraising makes to our patients cannot be underestimated."

Lisa Ryan, Acting Operations Manager, North West Cancer Centre and Tamworth Hospital Outpatients Centre

The North West Cancer Centre Tamworth provides treatment to residents of the New England and North West area of NSW. Patients may travel up to 4 hours to access treatment. The North West Cancer Centre is the only Radiation therapy treatment centre in the area. A purpose-built patient and care accommodation facility specifically for cancer patients is co-located with the North West Cancer Centre on the Tamworth Hospital campus. However, due to the Cancer Centre treating to full capacity across services, occupancy of Inala House is high. There is regularly no capacity to accommodate patients at Inala House who need to travel hours for their treatment. The funding provided by Dry July Foundation assists to fund overflow accommodation so that patients have no out-of-pocket accommodation expenses during their treatment.

In the 3 months January-March 2025, over 90 nights of accommodation have been provided to patients free of charge in overflow accommodation. This overcomes the financial burden for rural patients who need to travel significant distances to access cancer treatment.

Interviews with patients who have received this support has highlighted the significant positive impact it has on them that accommodation is arranged for them without charge when they need to attend the North West Cancer Centre at Tamworth. It reduces a burden, both financial and logistical.

We acknowledge the funding support provided by the Dry July Foundation which supports this program.

Thank you to Dry July participants and the Foundation for your ongoing support of this program.

Thank you for taking on the Dry July challenge and supporting the North West Cancer Centre in Tamworth this year. We are pleased to announce that with your help we raised an astounding $8,996.90 for the North West Cancer Centre! We are extremely grateful for your fundraising efforts and dedication.

Your fundraising for Dry July has enabled North West Cancer Centre to provide weekly exercise sessions for breast cancer patients who are or have recently been undergoing treatment at the North West Cancer Centre.

On behalf of all the patients and Cancer Centre staff at North West Cancer Centre, we would like to thank you for your support and contribution to making a positive difference in the lives of people living with cancer.

The North West Cancer Centre provides out-patient treatments and clinics for medical oncology, radiation oncology, and haematology patients.

The funds raised from Dry July 2023 are helping support the exercise programs offered at the centre.