Ma Smith's Oxford soup kitchen is back in time for Christmas
AN OXFORD icon who has been feeding the city’s homeless for three decades is back in the kitchen for the first time since the pandemic. Icolyn ‘Ma’ Smith reopened the Oxford Community Soup Kitchen yesterday at the Asian Cultural Centre, off Cowley Road. The 90-year-old, who has been awarded an MBE for her efforts as well as a Pride of Britain award in 2018, said: “Since the lockdown we’ve never stopped but we weren’t able to cook the food in the centre due to the coronavirus.” Because of the pandemic, public buildings were forced to shut which included the Manzil Way cen...
Source: oxfordmail.co.uk