Michelle Green

Audience Insight Lead, @ComptonVerney. Tweets class, art, Midlands. Views own

[Michelle Green @greenmphd]

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:
https://t.co/JVBkXy936R

[Declan Westwood @WestwoodDeclan]

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

[Michelle Green @greenmphd]

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

[Obesity Health Alliance - Account Inactive @OHA_updates]

This week, we are sharing expert blogs to launch our Local Government Position Statement.

Secondly, we hear from @AlexRoseCharity on why restoring the public health grant will give a vital lifeline for local authorities.

#PowerToPlaces

https://t.co/yzFQQGe2Mx

[Joe Lycett @joelycett]

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. https://t.co/mNRsQ57iTF

[Michelle Green @greenmphd]

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

[Michelle Green @greenmphd]

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%

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

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 ⬇️ https://t.co/gU1592dEdg

[Michelle Green @greenmphd]

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

[Michelle Green @greenmphd]

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”

[Michelle Green @greenmphd]

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

[Michelle Green @greenmphd]

So happy to have Amy join the team 👏

[Sustain @UKSustain]

Want to find out how to get a job in the sustainable food movement? Meet Amy, a policy and advocacy manager at Alexandra Rose Charity, who shares her route to work. https://t.co/BDeG1McNK8

[Michelle Green @greenmphd]

@AlexRoseCharity This is lovely!

[Michelle Green @greenmphd]

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

https://t.co/zAo1KzDzuH

[The Food Foundation @Food_Foundation]

📢 '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 👇

https://t.co/Z70JCiApVq
#PeasPlease #CostOfLivingCrisis

[The Food Foundation @Food_Foundation]

⚠️ 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 👇

https://t.co/8o1BrUUS7j
#CostOfLivingCrisis

[Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey]

The reality behind this is horrible

[Michelle Green @greenmphd]

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

[Michelle Green @greenmphd]

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 🧅🥬🥦🥕🫛🥔

[Michelle Green @greenmphd]

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.

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

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.