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27/10/2026

Maymessy so chuffed that SALAMA cookbook is in Social Enterprise UK Xmas list.

This has to be the best most impactful Xmas list so please buy the SALAMA cookbook supporting women surviving domestic abuse and also support social enterprises by buying other products including Oxfordshire criminally good b**r Tap Social Movement

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23/10/2026

03/09/2026

https://www.oxmag.co.uk/articles/courage-community-and-food/
Thank you for featuring SALAMA cook book in Ox Mag this month. And thank you for the PR Meze Publishing Project Salama Society Without Abuse Reducing the Risk of Domestic Abuse

Read about Courage, Community and Food on OXMag.co.uk. For articles of the highest quality on all things Oxfordshire.

03/09/2026

🍁 September means it’s back to school and back to business with lots to look forward to this autumn around Oxfordshire

Our interviews this month include…

💋Ruby Wax in Oxford with Absolutely Famous at the Oxford Playhouse and the Transform Trauma Conference

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Joanna Page, at the Malvern Autumn Show at the end of September

🧑‍🌾 Tim Bentinck, celebrating 75 years of The Archers at New Theatre Oxford

🎭 And Ray Fearon who is starring in Fences (also at the Playhouse), reveals What Makes Me

🔭 Dane Comerford, Director of If Oxford science and ideas Festival talks with Dr Tom Payne about his staging of Ruskin’s lecture, The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century.

📚 Kim Harvey gives us a taste of what’s happening at the Burford Literary Festival

🕰️ Michelle Heather meets Witney’s Steve Fletcher, the horologist with a strong horticultural streak and rounds up her favourite dark-leaved plants for the garden.

Plus we have autumnal style pages; recipes from Salama: Falling in Love with Cooking Again; we’re trying Sicilian cuisine at Aromi; and, with the new term in mind, we spoke with acclaimed keynote speaker Jaz Ampaw-Farr about the power of “every day heroes” in the school setting.

Finally, our Oxfordshire Artweeks makers are inspired by an autumn meadow and we meet artist, Anita Joice who imagines Oxfordshire’s familiar spaces as portals to other worlds…

Read the full issue by following the link in the comments below

01/09/2026

Please vote for Pete King 'Hare I am' BBC Countryfile calendar 2027. It only takes a few seconds.

Pete has volunteered his time Maymessy and taken some amazing photos for our wild life booklet and for SALAMA cook book. We are so lucky to have his talent and cant wait to buy the calendar for presents.

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06/08/2026

SALAMA available to pre order from Waterstones 😊

https://www.waterstones.com/book/salama-falling-in-love-with-cooking-again/maymessy/9781915538512

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Buy Salama: Falling in Love with Cooking Again by Maymessy from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

05/08/2026

A busy day for a lovely team from UK Health Security Agency Harwell Campus coming to volunteer at Maymessy yesterday. They put up our fruit cage which was much harder than we expected.

Thank you very much to Emily for bringing such a brilliant team and our Nix co ordinating all.

Thank you to Hazel our volunteer gardener and Simon and the OMT for funding this.

10/07/2026

SALAMA - Falling in love with cooking again available for pre- order now

A cook book and a celebration of food, friendship and community.

Salama: Falling in Love with Cooking Again brings together affordable recipes and personal stories from women supported by Maymessy and charities Project Salama Society Without Abuse and Reducing the Risk of Domestic Abuse

Featuring dishes inspired by cultures around the world, this cookbook shares messages of hope, resilience and belonging.

A celebration of food, friendship and community, Salama: Falling in Love with Cooking Again brings together affordable recipes and personal stories from women supported by Maymessy and its partner charities. Featuring dishes inspired by cultures around the world, this cookbook shares messages of hop...

10/07/2026

SALAMA - Falling in love with cooking again available for pre- order now

A cook book and a celebration of food, friendship and community.

Salama: Falling in Love with Cooking Again brings together affordable recipes and personal stories from women supported by Maymessy and charities Project Salama, Society Without Abuse and Reducing the Risk of Domestic Abuse

Featuring dishes inspired by cultures around the world, this cookbook shares messages of hope, resilience and belonging.

https://mezepublishing.co.uk/product/pre-order-now-salama-falling-in-love-with-cooking-again/

19/06/2026

It is with great joy that we share information about SALAMA cook book and the link for pre sales below with you.

A celebration of food, friendship and community, Salama: Falling in Love with Cooking Again brings together affordable recipes and personal stories from women supported by Maymessy and its partner charities. Featuring dishes inspired by cultures around the world, this cookbook shares messages of hope, resilience and belonging.

A celebration of food, friendship and community, Salama: Falling in Love with Cooking Again brings together affordable recipes and personal stories from women supported by Maymessy and its partner charities. Featuring dishes inspired by cultures around the world, this cookbook shares messages of hop...