We’re delighted to have won the Urban Food Fortnight Photo Competition 2019 with our photos from our Chefs for Families event. Urban Food Fortnight showcases the capital’s vibrant food scene and is run by London Food Link, the voice for good food in London. Here are the winning two entries: Read…
Our Chefs for Families event on the 25th September was a roaring success. We raised a brilliant £3000 in total. The event was hosted by our corporate partners HelloFresh at their kitchen and social space at their headquarters in Shoreditch. A huge thank you to our chefs on the night: Thom Eagle, Tom Hunt, Chantelle Nicholson, Sudi Read…
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been awarded a 2nd grant from Comic Relief and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. We were one of eight organisations selected from a shortlist of 40. This new funding will enable us to customise our app to enable us to work with a wider range of local partners so that Read…
On 4th September we attended the launch of the London Mayor’s London’s Child Obesity Taskforce – Ten Ambitions for London Plan. The Child Obesity Taskforce was established in 2018 as part of the Mayor’s commitment to address child obesity. The Taskforce’s vision is that every child in London grows up in a community and environment Read…
Between 1912 and 2012 Alexandra Rose Charity organised the annual Rose Day collections where volunteers across the country raised money by selling real, paper, and silk roses. For the last 7 years, the charity has been focused on developing its new mission to give families to access to fresh fruit & vegetables in their community through Read…
In July we hosted a wonderful evening reception at Buckingham Palace for 100 guests. It was attended by Princess Alexandra, our President, who is our founder Queen Alexandra’s great-granddaughter. We consider ourselves very fortunate to continue to have this relationship that connects us with our journey as a charity over the last 107 years. Our Read…
We are teaming up with HelloFresh to help provide fruit and veg for families on low incomes who struggle to afford it. This new partnership will alert HelloFresh’s customers to our work and our Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg Project. The campaign also demonstrates HelloFresh’s mission to help families eat more veg with every Read…
During 2018 we successfully developed and launched the ‘Rosie App’ to digitise the reimbursement of Rose Vouchers for participating retailers, thanks to support from Comic Relief’s Tech for Good programme. You can watch our video that Comic Relief made about our work below: YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92cGT2y_feM This platform, designed by our tech partners Neon Tribe, Read…
