About The Ashbourne Project
The Ashbourne Project (TAP) is a purpose-led media and advocacy platform focused on improving the cancer experience through lived experience, expert insight, and system-level conversation.
Founded by Aaron Ashbourne, TAP exists to bring clarity, humanity, and truth to conversations around cancer — for patients, families, clinicians, researchers, and the organisations that support them.
After being diagnosed with advanced cancer, Aaron experienced first-hand how overwhelming, fragmented, and isolating the system can feel. Important information is often hard to find. Decisions are complex. And the human experience is too often lost beneath clinical language.
TAP was created to change that.
Through long-form conversations, storytelling, and collaboration with medical professionals and advocates, The Ashbourne Project aims to:
Help people feel less alone in their diagnosis
Make complex medical and system information more understandable
Encourage better conversations between patients, families, and care teams
Support improvements in how cancer care is experienced and delivered
This is not a fundraising platform, a medical service, or a place for quick answers. It is a space for thoughtful dialogue, lived insight, and responsible storytelling — grounded in integrity, transparency, and respect.
The Ashbourne Project is based in Australia and works with contributors and collaborators locally and internationally.
To learn more about the work, explore the Watch and Updates pages — or get in touch via the Contact page.
