Michelle Green

So, so excited to release the findings of the first 18 months of our Fruit & Veg on Prescription projects! It has been humbling to evidence the impact of this initative. The health & wellbeing impacts surpassed my expectations - read the report here: alexandrarose.org.uk/press-release-…

Went to see River of Black Stone by Emii Alrai @emiialrai at @ComptonVerney a journey into the depths of a fictional volcano, where artifacts are vitrified by lava or eroded by touch. Inspired by Volaire’s An Eruption of Vesuvius by Moonlight (18C). Worth a visit! @ace_midlands

Shocking insights published by @AmyDeptford1 today - The Local Authority public health grant has reduced in value in real terms by 27% since 2015/16 No wonder health inequalities are at record levels We'd need a £1.5bn increase to restore it to its 2015/16 value

I hear the press have got hold of some pictures and so I have been forced to make this statement. Needless to say, I apologise. shorturl.at/nENOY

@AlexRoseCharity @ChildhoodTrust Amazing! Congrats fundraising team for all the great work

I am very happy with my bouquet of organic garlic, if you can’t tell. Only £1.10 for 4 bulbs! 📍 Teviot Centre food co-op where organic fruit and veg is discounted by 50%

Hundreds of NHS patients have been prescribed fruit and vegetables by GPs in a pioneering scheme found to help them lose weight and lower blood pressure ⬇️ #Echobox=1716448279-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.co.uk/article/mood-u…

Loved taking part in this earlier this week - great to see so many innovative, thoughtful work happening at scale in the US and Europe. Happy to be a representative of the UK's approach to vouchers and food poverty action

Great visit to @LimehouseTH all-organic food co-op this morning 🥬 When I was waiting for the doors to open, I spoke to new regular Barbara (50s) who was waiting with me. After her shop she pointed to her two full bags, “This was all £13, it’ll last all week”

Great featured books in the food section in the Idea Store Library, next to Chrisp Street market in Tower Hamlets

So happy to have Amy join the team 👏

@AlexRoseCharity This is lovely!

On Radio 4’s Today programme this morning - urgent action needed on failing child health (8.10am). It includes an interview with @DPH_MAshton, Liverpool Council’s Director of Public Health acmedsci.ac.uk/more/news/urge…

📢 'We urgently businesses to make eating veg the easy and affordable option - and more support from the Government to ensure everyone is able to access and afford a healthy diet' Our latest @PeasPleaseUK report featured in @TheGrocer 👇 thegrocer.co.uk/health/veg-sal… #PeasPlease #CostOfLivingCrisis

⚠️ Britons are eating fewer vegetables than at any time in the last 50 years due to rising prices. Findings from our latest @PeasPleaseUK report published in @MailOnline 👇 dailymail.co.uk/health/article… #CostOfLivingCrisis

The reality behind this is horrible

@AvantiWestCoast will any train run to Euston from Bham New Street today? All cancelled for a few hours

We are so close to our target🤞🤞🤞 When someone is struggling, research shows the first thing to go in the household budget is veg. Your donation will go towards helping families and people with multiple, long-term health issues prioritise veg this Christmas 🧅🥬🥦🥕🫛🥔

Unfortunately, the demand for our work has grown the last year and we have never supported as many families and people with multiple, long-term health issues as we do right now. If you can spare £5, it will help us advocate for much larger change that needs to happen.

A horrible but extremely important study here. I have said for years that we don’t place enough focus on just how many sex offenders are in our society, which increases victim prejudice and victim blaming. We always hear ‘1 in 4 girls will be abused’ or ‘1 in 3 women will be raped’ - but we never hear ‘1 in X men are rapists’. This study of 1900 Australian men follows the similar studies in USA and UK. Key findings here: 1 in 10 men admitted to sexually abusing a child 1 in 6 men reported being sexually attracted to children 1 in 15 men said they would have sexual contact with a child under 14 if they wouldn’t get caught The men who offended against children were more likely to be professionals, married, earn higher incomes and work with children. Whilst we might not like this stats and results, we cannot continue in our sector without accurate estimates of how many people are abusive and dangerous. All of our stats are based on victims, but no one wants to talk about the sheer amount of abusers - millions of them in our societies. Work like this is vital, in my opinion, to end victim blaming. If there are millions of these offenders, how can any person or agency blame the victim? How can they claim they should have seen it coming? Or should have known? Or should have protected themselves more? THIS is the real reason why sexual violence and child abuse is so common - not because victims have ‘vulnerabilities’, but because there are millions of perpetrators in every corner of our lives.