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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  • Top tips for self care

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    This week’s Self Care Week, a week that focuses on embedding support for self-care across all walks of life. To recognise the week, our fantastic Social Media team have tweeting their top tips on looking after yourself. We’d love to hear yours too, so go ahead and share them in the comments below.

    • If you're finding things tough, it can help to take things one day at a time and not look too far ahead. You…
  • Online Community downtime: Thursday 23rd November 2023 - 6.30am to 9.30am

    So that this essential maintenance can take place, the Online Community will experience some downtime. This means that members will not be able to log in, or join the Online Community, between 6.30am - 9.30am On Thursday 23rd November 2023.
  • Planned maintenance - Thursday 10th September, 6am-10am

    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 6:00am and 10:00am on Thursday 10th September.

    The main Macmillan website (macmillan.org.uk) will also be unavailable from 6:00am-10:00am.

    This means that you will not be able to log in or post on the Online Community during this time. You will still be able to read…