This week’s edition of the award-winning Big Issue magazine is on the streets now, priced at £2.50, with 50% of the cover price going directly to the vendor.

Help us win the Cover of the Year gong for our brilliant Ralph Steadman-designed Boris Johnson cover while our editor Paul McNamee and art director Ross Lesley-Bayne are also up for awards

It's (nearly) the most wonderful time of the year. We want kids to express their inner artists and design a cover that will help our vendors on busy high streets this festive season

Almost 20 years ago, Rae McKinlay sold The Big Issue in Glasgow. She writes about how the life-changing experience still has a positive impact on her life today – a story that has since been turned into a mini-graphic novel