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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  • Planned Community 'downtime'

    Hi everyone,

    We’re posting this afternoon to let you know about some planned Community ‘downtime’ which will be happening next Tuesday, 11th February from 7am-1pm.

    We are carrying out essential maintenance which will better protect the Community and its users from security risks.

    We have tried to coordinate this to cause minimum disruption and whilst we are hopeful that the site might be up and running…

  • 'Nobody is perfect, but my mum was about as close as it is possible for a human to get' - Benedict's blog

    Benedict and his mum at his master’s graduation in 2018.

    Benedict and his mum at his master’s graduation in 2018.

    Benedict used to work as part of Macmillan’s Community Team, he got in touch recently to send us a piece he wrote about coping with the grief of losing his mum on Easter Sunday last year. We wanted to share it with you all today, and we want to thank Benedict for writing such an honest, open, and powerful piece of writing for us.

    I’m not really sure…

  • ‘It’s a great comfort food’- Dining with an Ostomate: Fish pie

    ‘Dining with an ostomate fish pie’ Written over an image of a seasoned salmon fillet.

    Debbie, our wonderful 'chef to ostomates' is back today with a delicious warming Fish Pie recipe, perfect for cold winter nights. All of Debbie’s recipes are, of course, designed with Ostomates in mind and in case you’ve missed any of her recipes to date, you can find them all in our Ileostomy, colostomy and stoma support group. So why not put an apron on and get cooking!

    'This Fish Pie is another…