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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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  • Spending Christmas without a loved one

    Spending Christmas without a loved one written in white over a picture of a snowflake

    At a time of year where we want to rejoice with our loved ones, sadly there are many different reasons why this may not be possible.

    This may be your first Christmas without a friend or family member, and there may be additional restrictions in place which means this festive period will be very different for you. However you are spending Christmas this year, we hope you can still find some peaceful moments.

    “This Christmas…

  • Winter Picture Festival

    Handmade christmas tree decoration made with twigs and baubles

    Our featured image, from

    First of all, we’d just like to say a big thank you to everyone who shared a picture with the Online Community as part of our Winter Picture Festival. Your pictures brought the Community team, and our members, a lot of joy this December.

    The Winter Picture Festival gave members the opportunity to share a picture they’d taken, or something they had made, on a winter theme.

    There were…

  • A day in the life of...a Cancer Information & Support Advisor

    A portrait photo of Ruth.

    We are pleased to be continuing our ‘A day in the life of…’ series today with Ruth, who works as an Information and support adviser on the Macmillan Support Line. Now that webchat is available directly on the Community site, we wanted to bring you a few of the faces behind the support and help you get to know more about how our teams can support you. For more information on how to use Webchat, please…