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Impact · 2025 Ball only

Where the 2025 Ball’s
$140,799.90
went.

The $140,799.90 raised on the night of the 2025 Bloody Cells Ball went through Westmead Hospital Foundation to Ward C5A. Here’s where it landed.

Note: the percentages on this page describe the 2025 Ball’s $140,799.90 only, not the cumulative $420,000+ raised across all three Balls. Funds go through Westmead Hospital Foundation for blood cancer research, nurse education and patient care on Ward C5A.

Westmead Hospital Foundation · Ward C5AFrom the 2025 Ball
Five Ward C5A nurses sitting in the new teal recliner chairs in a hospital corridor, putting them through quality-control testing before the chairs go into patient rooms
New patient recliners, photographed by the C5A team during quality control.

Allocation of the 2025 Ball funds

$0.90

raised on the night of the 2025 Ball

These percentages cover the 2025 Ball only: how the $140,799.90 raised on the night was allocated, not the cumulative $420,000+ across all three Balls. Funds go through Westmead Hospital Foundation for blood cancer research, nurse education and patient care on Ward C5A.

60%of the 2025 $140,799.90

Patient care on Ward C5A

A much-needed patient blood fridge for C5A, plus brand-new recliner chairs for patient rooms.

40%of the 2025 $140,799.90

Nurses' Education Fund

Direct support for C5A's frontline nurses to keep building the expertise that defines care on the ward: continuing education, courses, and attendance at national conferences.

What it’s funding

Three concrete outcomes for C5A.

The Foundation has worked with the ward to direct the 2025 funds where they make the biggest practical difference: patient equipment, patient comfort, and the team that delivers the care.

  1. 0160% of the 2025 funds

    A patient blood fridge for Ward C5A.

    The largest single piece of equipment funded by the 2025 Ball: a much-needed dedicated patient blood fridge for C5A. It's a critical working piece of kit that directly supports treatment for patients on the ward.

  2. 0260% of the 2025 funds

    New recliner chairs for patient rooms.

    A fresh set of patient recliners has landed on C5A, photographed here going through quality control with the nursing team before being cleaned and rolled into rooms. Recliners get harder use than people realise: patients sit in them through hours of treatment, and they need to be comfortable, supportive and easy to move.

    Five Ward C5A nurses sitting in the new teal recliner chairs in a hospital corridor, putting them through quality-control testing before the chairs go into patient rooms
  3. 0340% of the 2025 funds

    Direct support for the Nurses' Education Fund.

    The remaining 40% has gone to the Nurses' Education Fund: courses, certifications and travel to national conferences. It's the practical investment in the C5A team that keeps the standard of care on the ward where it needs to be.

From the ward

New educational screens, live on C5A.

Alongside the equipment funded by the Ball, C5A also has a fresh set of educational display screens, now installed and fully commissioned, running clinical content, staff-care messaging and donor acknowledgements through the spaces patients, families and staff move through every day.

The Meal Trolley Bay on Westmead's Ward C5A, with the new educational display screens visible above the kitchen and meal area
The screens sit across both patient-facing and staff areas, including above the meal trolley bay, where patients and visitors pass through every day.
A new educational screen on Ward C5A's kitchen wall, displaying a slide thanking donors for supporting patient care on the ward
Among the content rotating on the new screens: a slide thanking donors for the support that helps improve the patient experience on the ward.
A new ward screen near the Clean Utility area showing the NSW Health 'Thank you for being kind and respectful to our healthcare workers' staff-care campaign
NSW Health's staff-care campaign, 'thank you for being kind and respectful to our healthcare workers', placed deliberately in the clinical workspace, not just patient areas.
A new ward screen near the Clean Utility area displaying the Lifeblood / Australian Blood Administration Handbook (Blood Book) revision survey for clinicians, with a QR code to complete the survey
The same screens carry live clinical material, including the current Lifeblood Blood Book revision survey, so C5A clinicians can feed back into the next edition of the national handbook without leaving the floor.

Sponsor the 2027 Ball

Help fund
the next chapter at Westmead.

The 2027 Ball is being shaped now. Sponsors who come in early help define the night and what it funds: blood cancer research, nurse education and patient care on Ward C5A.

Read the prospectus →info@bloodycellsball.com.au