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Inside the Big Issue: Our Christmas Kids Cover Competition winner
Inside the magazine

Inside the Big Issue: Our Christmas Kids Cover Competition winner

Empowering Change: Big Issue and giffgaff are making a difference with refurbished phones for vendors
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Empowering Change: Big Issue and giffgaff are making a difference with refurbished phones for vendors

Inside the Big Issue: Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor
The Big Issue magazine featuring Ncuti Gatwa on the cover
Inside the magazine

Inside the Big Issue: Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor

Inside the Big Issue: A-HA! It's Alan Partridge
Inside the magazine

Inside the Big Issue: A-HA! It's Alan Partridge

Big Issue and giffgaff join forces to provide 250 vendors with refurbished phones
Illustration of two people engaging in a digital transaction. The foreground shows an enlarged smartphone displaying a successful contactless payment notification. In the background, one person wearing a Big Issue vendor's tabard holds magazines, gesturing in victory, while the other, carrying a backpack, uses their own phone, symbolizing connectivity and mobile commerce.
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Big Issue and giffgaff join forces to provide 250 vendors with refurbished phones

King Charles' Big Issue cover saw 'unprecedented' sales for vendors ahead of crucial Christmas period
King Charles III

King Charles' Big Issue cover saw 'unprecedented' sales for vendors ahead of crucial Christmas period

Cost of living: Single mum who works full-time recalls struggle to pay bills – and how she found help
cost of living
Big Issue Invest

Cost of living: Single mum who works full-time recalls struggle to pay bills – and how she found help

Social investment fund tackling inequality backed by Macquarie Group Foundation and BD Giving
Press Release

Social investment fund tackling inequality backed by Macquarie Group Foundation and BD Giving

Social investment fund tackling UK social inequality hits the £1m mark with latest investments
Press Release

Social investment fund tackling UK social inequality hits the £1m mark with latest investments

Power Up London: Big Issue Invest opens applications for new investment programme
Big Issue Invest

Power Up London: Big Issue Invest opens applications for new investment programme

Applications open for Big Issue Invest's fourth Social Impact Investment Fund
Big Issue Invest

Applications open for Big Issue Invest's fourth Social Impact Investment Fund

Remembering Steve Canham: a true friend to The Big Issue
Steve Canham
John Bird

Remembering Steve Canham: a true friend to The Big Issue

Fairbnb.coop partners with Big Issue to combat UK poverty
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Fairbnb.coop partners with Big Issue to combat UK poverty

'Our goal is to challenge negative expectations': Turning the spotlight on Big Issue's frontline
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'Our goal is to challenge negative expectations': Turning the spotlight on Big Issue's frontline

How to have your views published by The Big Issue
Letters

How to have your views published by The Big Issue

Changing the World One DOSE at a Time
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Changing the World One DOSE at a Time

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
There's a letting agency actually trying to fix the housing crisis. Here’s how
Homes for Good, Glasgow housing
Housing

There's a letting agency actually trying to fix the housing crisis. Here’s how

British Gas Energy Trust awards six figure grant to Big Issue
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British Gas Energy Trust awards six figure grant to Big Issue

Jamie's Story
Behind the scenes

Jamie's Story

Local theatre company receives £104K in investment from Big Issue Invest
OVO Theatre Company
Big Issue Invest

Local theatre company receives £104K in investment from Big Issue Invest

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