Community News

These news items are generated and published by Macmillan's Online Community Team. In this section you’ll find some posts written by the Online Community team in partnership with our Cancer Information Development team. We also feature personal stories from our members.

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  • Supporting yourself while supporting someone with incurable cancer (Part 1)

    "Supporting someone while supporting someone else" in white over a picture of two women's hands clasped together in the garden. One has a wedding ring visible.

    A loved one’s cancer diagnosis can have just as large an impact as a personal diagnosis. Our Cancer Information and Support Advisor, Jenna, is here to talk through some of the complicated emotions you might feel, and ways you can help yourself cope.

    December is a time where usually we might feel we ‘should’ be feeling positive and festive. I’m conscious that for so many this will be an incredibly difficult time…

  • Planned maintenance - Tuesday 10th November, 7am-1pm

    Hi everyone,

    Due to some planned maintenance on the main Macmillan website, www.macmillan.org.uk, the Online Community will enter a read-only mode between 7:00am and 1:00pm on Tuesday 10th November.

    This means that you will not be able to log in, post or reply on the Online Community during this time. You will still be able to read posts and blogs on the site.

    If you feel you need some support while the Online Community is…

  • Temporarily disabled email notifications

    Hi everyone,

    Last week, we used a feature to send an email notification to all members to let them know about our update on the site upgrade. You may have seen the below email in your inbox:

     Screenshot showing an email notification from the Community team

    Unfortunately, due to a technical glitch, this email is being sent to users multiple times. Because of this, we have had to temporarily disable email notifications from the Community. This means users will not receive any email…