The MAZI Project

The MAZI Project The MAZI Project aims to tackle food insecurity for 16 - 25 year olds living in supported accommodation in Bristol.

From care leavers to young asylum seekers and youth recovering from homelessness.

To round off our week of Together for Joyful Resilience, we hosted a family-friendly BBQ at the MAZI Community Kitchen, ...
03/06/2026

To round off our week of Together for Joyful Resilience, we hosted a family-friendly BBQ at the MAZI Community Kitchen, bringing people together to enjoy good food, great company, and some much-needed sunshine ☀️😎

The event gave our community and supporters the chance to step inside our kitchen and learn more about the work we do, as well as enjoy an afternoon of live music, games, and arts and crafts!

A huge thank you to for providing the incredible food, for the drinks, and to everyone who generously donated prizes for our raffle.

Most importantly, thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make the afternoon so special. We hope you had a wonderful time celebrating community, connection, and joy with us 💛

💛 A Meal That Matters 💛Last week, we gathered to celebrate Together for Joyful Resilience with an unforgettable evening ...
01/06/2026

💛 A Meal That Matters 💛

Last week, we gathered to celebrate Together for Joyful Resilience with an unforgettable evening at the Elmgrove Centre. ☀️

An incredible menu was created by some of Bristol’s most loved hospitality figures, including Pegs from , Josh from , Ben from , Pash from The Lido, and Shona and from With the brilliant bringing her infectious energy to the room 🫶

We are extremely proud to say we raised a total of £23,135 our biggest sum raised in one night. Raising over £20,000 means we can support 60 young people through our accredited cooking course, with many going on to secure jobs or take their first steps onto the independent housing ladder. 💕

We’d like to say a special thank you to for supporting the event, and to for generously donating drinks for the evening. ✨

Most importantly, we want to celebrate Bristol’s independent hospitality industry. At a time when many businesses across the sector are facing significant challenges themselves, so many people still chose to give their time, and resources to support young people across our city. 👏

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Only one week to go until our June edition of At The Table with Bristol icons 🥟✨From a chance meeting at a Hong Kong st...
30/05/2026

Only one week to go until our June edition of At The Table with Bristol icons 🥟✨

From a chance meeting at a Hong Kong street food stall to becoming one of Bristol’s most beloved restaurants, we sat down with the team behind WANGS to hear their story ahead of next week’s supper club.

Swipe through to read the interview, learn more about their journey, and get a taste of what’s to come on the night 👀

🎟️ Tickets are available via the link in our bio

Don’t miss out on this great night!!

Every ticket helps support The MAZI Project’s mission of helping every young person feel love through food 💛

And we are done ✨A huge thank you to everyone who made Together for Joyful Resilience such a powerful success. After mon...
29/05/2026

And we are done ✨

A huge thank you to everyone who made Together for Joyful Resilience such a powerful success. After months of preparation, we spent an incredible week celebrating food and community as tools for change—while raising awareness of the realities facing marginalised young people across the South West ✨

Across five events, we welcomed 250+ people, partnered with 20+ amazing businesses and community organisations, and raised £20,000 to support young people not just to get by, but to feel supported and able to flourish. From a thought-provoking film screening and panel on resilient food systems, to our Meal That Matters gala with Bristol’s incredible chefs, to joyful moments of pizza, music, BBQ, and shared tables, every event showed what’s possible when people come together with care.

We are so grateful to every volunteer, collaborator, and supporter who made the week happen, and especially to Bristol’s independent hospitality sector. At a time of real pressure, so many still showed up with generosity, offering their time, skills, food, and spaces to support young people in our city. MAZI simply wouldn’t exist without this community. 👏

You are all aMAZIng 🫶

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And everyone who donated to our raffle 🫶💕✨

20/05/2026

💛At MAZI we believe that food is a political act💛

What we eat, where it comes from, who has access to it, and who gets left out are all shaped by wider systems and power structures. From rising food insecurity to access to fresh ingredients, food has always been political.

📣 We believe everyone deserves not just nourishment, but the chance to feel connected, valued, creative, and part of something bigger.

Community 🍽️
Sharing meals brings people together and creates spaces where people feel welcome and less alone.

Access 🥗
Good food should be a right not be a privilege. Everyone deserves access to nourishing meals and safe community spaces.

Joy ✨
Food can be celebration, a time to relax and rewind, not just survival.

Growth 🌱
From gardening to learning new skills, food helps people build confidence, and gain a deeper connection to the Earth.

Creativity 🎂
Cooking can be apart of storytelling, sharing culture and heritage, and self-expression.

Connection 🤝
Some of the most meaningful conversations happen around a table or side by side in the kitchen.

👑 A picnic at the palace 👑Our founder, Melanie was recently nominated for her work in Food Education and invited to a Ro...
19/05/2026

👑 A picnic at the palace 👑

Our founder, Melanie was recently nominated for her work in Food Education and invited to a Royal Garden Party by wonderful Peaches Golding OBE CStJ.

The first person she thought to bring was her wonderful gran. Throughout her life, her gran has gently passed on the power of using food to bring people together, the importance of being connected to where food comes from, and the act of chopping and sharing with others. In many ways, she has inspired a lot of her work — a realisation that has come in the last couple of years. 💥

It was wonderful for her to see Steve Sayers from who was randomly the first to sit next to them when she and her gran couldn’t find a seat, so decided a picnic on the palace grass sounded perfect! 💫

And on top of sharing a special moment with her gran, what this really means to her is that the work they are doing at The MAZI Project is being seen.

There’s still so much to do, whether that’s making nutritious and local food more accessible for marginalised young people or creating real opportunities that build confidence and celebrate their strength and resilience — she believes food has the power to be transformational! 😊

She wants to be part of that national conversation. And moments like this make her even more determined to keep going.

Thank you to everyone who’s shown up for this alongside her 🌱 with special thanks to Dom Wood DL (Hon LLD) who is always supporting her and there when she needs it :)

This week marks our Together for Joyful Resilience campaign for World Hunger Day 🌍💛But why have we chosen this as our ta...
18/05/2026

This week marks our Together for Joyful Resilience campaign for World Hunger Day 🌍💛

But why have we chosen this as our tagline?

Because at MAZI, we believe resilience should mean more than just getting through the day, it should mean having the opportunity to thrive too.

So many young people across Bristol are navigating hunger, unsafe housing, loneliness, and situations no young person should have to carry alone. And when life becomes about survival; joy, connection, and community can begin to feel out of reach too.

At MAZI, we’ve seen how something as simple as sharing a meal can change that. 🍽️

This campaign is about bringing people together, and reminding Bristol’s young people that they do not have to face things alone 💛

We are flying into our week for Together for Joyful Resilience and so excited for all that’s to come. We still have tick...
16/05/2026

We are flying into our week for Together for Joyful Resilience and so excited for all that’s to come.

We still have tickets for:

Tue 19 May | Doors 18:30–21:30
🎬 ‘In Our Hands’: Film & Panel on Food Futures at Hen and Chicken
👉 hdfst.uk/e152657
Tickets from £5

Sun 24 May | 12:00–16:00
🔥 BBQ, Joy and Community Fun at MAZI Community Kitchen
👉 yuup.co/experiences/mazi-open-doors-bbq-joy-and-community-fun
Freeee!

Happy Saturday all ☀️🫶

📣Food poverty is about more than just access to food📣For many marginalised young people, food insecurity can also mean i...
15/05/2026

📣Food poverty is about more than just access to food📣
For many marginalised young people, food insecurity can also mean isolation and a lack of community.

That’s why at The MAZI Project, we focus on building connection alongside providing nourishing meals.

Across Bristol, there are so many incredible organisations using food, creativity, and community to bring people together and support people facing isolation and food insecurity 🍽️

We wanted to spotlight just a few of the groups doing amazing work in our city, creating welcoming spaces, sharing knowledge, building confidence, and helping people feel a little less alone ✨

A huge shoutout to:
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Bristol is full of people doing meaningful, community-led work, and we’re so grateful to be part of a city with organisations like these.

Know another local group doing amazing work? Tag them below 👇

A special shoutout to our incredible community champion, Tommy who recently hosted a charity coffee morning in support o...
08/05/2026

A special shoutout to our incredible community champion, Tommy who recently hosted a charity coffee morning in support of MAZI 💛

With incredible home made cakes from the neighbourhood, the morning raised a brilliant £285, securing 90 nourishing meals to go to young people facing food poverty in the city 🫶🫶

He said:
“I wanted to get people together to support a great local cause and contribute to our sense of community, which I think is really important at the moment with all the madness in the world. It was really nice seeing the cross-generational mixing, with folk who have lived on the road for forty years sharing stories with young couples who’ve just moved to the area.”

Thank you Tommy for backing our work and helping create the kind of joyful, connected community we believe in 💛

Get in touch if you would like to host a coffee morning or dinner to raise money for The MAZI Project 🫶

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