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How you can help families struggling to buy toys this Christmas
Many families will struggle to buy presents for their children this Christmas. Image credit: Salvation Army
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How you can help families struggling to buy toys this Christmas

Meet the star of The Big Issue’s Christmas film
Big Issue vendor Martin McKenzie
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Meet the star of The Big Issue’s Christmas film

Human Rights Day: The fight for rights goes on for food and housing
A fist in the air
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Human Rights Day: The fight for rights goes on for food and housing

Government launches £46 million scheme to help the most vulnerable
rough sleeping
Housing

Government launches £46 million scheme to help the most vulnerable

‘I just want to buy my kids Christmas presents’: Scotland's Big Issue vendors
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‘I just want to buy my kids Christmas presents’: Scotland's Big Issue vendors

Volunteering shoots up across 2020 but experts fear a winter slowdown
A man in a red cross jackert leans on a railing
Activism

Volunteering shoots up across 2020 but experts fear a winter slowdown

120,000 young people feared homeless before pandemic as further rise expected
Youth homelessness figures have been revealed. Image credit: Casey Muir-Taylor / Flickr
Housing

120,000 young people feared homeless before pandemic as further rise expected

Big Issue vendor speaks out following ‘brutal’ suspected attack
Garry Buchan
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Big Issue vendor speaks out following ‘brutal’ suspected attack

More than half of Brits support increasing Universal Credit, says Unite
Stacks of twenty pound notes at the bank of england
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More than half of Brits support increasing Universal Credit, says Unite

400 Government-funded courses unveiled to 'build back better'
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak unload crates at Tesco
Employment

400 Government-funded courses unveiled to 'build back better'

Five million people to face ‘distressing’ destitution post-Covid-19
Social Justice

Five million people to face ‘distressing’ destitution post-Covid-19

Tai chi for beginners: How to take up the martial art
Tai chi for beginners
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Tai chi for beginners: How to take up the martial art

'Christmas will be a sad time': The keyworkers left out in the cold
Cleaners Oscar Garcia (left) and Kelly Jimenez (right)
Employment

'Christmas will be a sad time': The keyworkers left out in the cold

Thangam Debbonaire: 'Street homelessness is a moral failure this Christmas'
Labour's Shadow Housing Secretary Thangam Debbonaire in official parliament portrait
Housing

Thangam Debbonaire: 'Street homelessness is a moral failure this Christmas'

Labour calls on Government to protect rough sleepers at Christmas
Image of a homeless man rough sleeping in Devon, United Kingdom
Housing

Labour calls on Government to protect rough sleepers at Christmas

Coca Cola, Pepsi and Nestle named world’s worst plastic polluters in 2020
Image showing plastic pollution found on beach in Malaysia
Environment

Coca Cola, Pepsi and Nestle named world’s worst plastic polluters in 2020

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Standing up to the tyranny in Belarus... with music
Activism

Standing up to the tyranny in Belarus... with music

Video: Sam Fender brought to tears by Big Issue vendor’s story
Sam Fender and Big Issue vendor Earl John Charlton
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Video: Sam Fender brought to tears by Big Issue vendor’s story

Daniel Mays: Joining The Big Issue is my most important role to date
Big Issue Brand Ambassador Daniel Mays
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Daniel Mays: Joining The Big Issue is my most important role to date

After Debenhams and Arcadia what is the future for retail workers?
Shoppers visit retail giant Topshop at Oxford Circus in London
Employment

After Debenhams and Arcadia what is the future for retail workers?

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