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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  • Community downtime Monday 24th January

    Here at Macmillan we are currently doing some maintenance on our Online Community. This maintenance will help the Community to run more smoothly in the future and ensure that all our users get the best possible experience when using the site.

    For us to be able to complete this maintenance, the Online Community will experience some downtime.

    This means that you will not be able to log in or view the site while our teams…

  • Update from the Community team

    We just want to apologise that the Online Community was unavailable today. You should now be able to access the site as normal this evening.

    We know that many of our members may rely on our site for comfort and support each day. We hope we can reassure you that we will always communicate planned maintenance in advance. Sometimes the site will be unavailable longer than we expected. However, this is always because we are…

  • New Beginnings


    As we find ourselves somehow in 2022, people affected by cancer have been through an awful lot in the last few years. The coronavirus pandemic continues to change peoples’ plans and of course has impacted the health and freedom of many.
     
    After such difficult times throughout the last few years, finding fresh energy for the new year and hope for the future is arguably harder than ever. 

    "I am trying to put it all into…