Mission

Alexandra Rose Charities has a new purpose.  The Rose Vouchers for fruit and veg project supports pregnant women and families living on low incomes to eat more healthily and improve their health and wellbeing.

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Environment

Additional Information

There's a crisis in the way our children are eating - too much junk food and not enough fruit and veg.  A diet high in sugary, fatty, highly processed foods and drinks and lacking in fruit and vegetables is harmful to health and can affect children's performance in school. The vast majority of us don't manage to eat the government recommended portions of fruit and veg a day but poor families find it a particular struggle.  Poor eating habits can start in early childhood and there's growing evidence that a child's capacity to learn in school is affected by what they eat.  In a survey into child hunger in London, nearly a third of children asked said they found it difficult to concentrate at school because they were hungry. Increasingly families are finding it harder to make ends meet and are experiencing food poverty.