Your Donation
Your donation supports
$30 – Access to Vital Information
Your gift helps ensure patients and caregivers receive accurate, current, and practical information at the moment it is needed most. This includes guidance that supports understanding of cholangiocarcinoma, treatment pathways, and the decisions patients must navigate under pressure.
$50 – Patient & Caregiver Navigator Journal
Your gift funds the delivery of a Patient and Caregiver Navigator Journal to someone facing cholangiocarcinoma. These journals are designed to help patients and families organise information, track treatment, prepare for appointments, and maintain clarity during an overwhelming period.
$100 – Connection Through Online Support Meetings
Your gift helps sustain facilitated online support meetings where patients and caregivers can connect with others who understand this disease. These sessions reduce isolation, support decision-making, and strengthen response through shared lived experience.
$250 – Personal Peer Support
Your gift enables one-on-one peer support by phone or video. Patients and caregivers are connected with individuals who have lived experience of cholangiocarcinoma, providing grounded guidance, perspective, and support at critical stages of the journey.
$500 – Research, Mentoring & Patient Advocacy
Your gift supports patient-mentor programs, patient-endorsed medical registries, and cause-focused research initiatives that improve survival, reduce recurrence, and inform prevention. This work is applied, practical, and shaped by real patient outcomes, not abstract theory.
Gifts in Wills (Bequests)
Leaving a Lasting Legacy
Some supporters choose to include the Foundation in their Will.
A bequest helps sustain patient-led survival systems that operate in real time and ensures that hard-won insight from lived survival continues to inform prevention, early intervention, and improved outcomes for future patients.
Even a small portion of an estate can make a meaningful difference by supporting work that is grounded in cause, execution, and continuity rather than awareness alone.
There are several ways to leave a bequest, including:
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Pecuniary Bequest – a specific dollar amount
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Residual Bequest – the remainder or a percentage of an estate after other gifts and obligations
We encourage you to speak with your family and seek professional legal advice when considering a bequest. If you choose to include us in your Will, you are welcome to let us know. We’d love the opportunity to thank you and acknowledge your generous commitment to a better future for those living with cholangiocarcinoma.
Support Survival That Works
Your contribution does not fund awareness campaigns or abstract research.
It sustains a patient-led survival system built to operate where cholangiocarcinoma actually fails patients:
between diagnosis, treatment, recurrence, and cause.
This work exists to help patients act when time, clarity, and coordination matter most.
What Your Support Enables
Your donation directly supports:
Patient Response Systems
Practical tools and navigation that help patients move from shock to strategy, step by step.
Survivor-Built Pathways
Systems designed from lived survival, not theory, tested under real pressure.
Clinical Coordination
Connecting patients and families with clinicians who understand cholangiocarcinoma and act decisively.
Cause-Focused Work
Closing the loop from diagnosis back to biological cause, enabling prevention and reducing recurrence.
We don’t fund cancer research in the abstract.
We fund execution where it changes outcomes.
Why This Work Needs Support
Although we work closely with health systems and public initiatives, we receive no government funding.
This work has been carried independently by Steve Holmes and Claire for eight years because patients could not wait for systems to catch up.
That personal capacity is now exhausted.
While donations have begun to come in, they are not yet sufficient to sustain this work at the level patients require.
If this work continues, it is because people who understand what is at stake choose to carry it forward.
Our Operating Principle
As a patient-led initiative, we design and lead around cause, not speculation.
We close the loop on this cancer by closing the gaps left between diagnosis, survival, and cause, converting lived survival and real patient outcomes into systems that save lives, prevent recurrence, and enable true prevention.
The cure is in the cause.
Helping carry this work forward is how prevention becomes real.
A Note from the Battlefield
This foundation was not built from theory, funding pipelines, or advocacy models.
It was built because survival demanded it.
For those who want to understand the lived reality behind this work, you can read
A message from the battlefield.
Steve Holmes
Stage 4 survivor and co-founder
Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Australia
Make a Donation
Your support is applied immediately to patient survival, system continuity, and cause-driven prevention.
If it doesn’t help patients now, we don’t do it.
