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Government announces £15 million to help rough sleepers in lockdown
homelessness and Rough sleeping Alexander Baxevanis
Housing

Government announces £15 million to help rough sleepers in lockdown

Your RORA idea: Could old computers breathe new life into communities?
Activism

Your RORA idea: Could old computers breathe new life into communities?

Covid-19 lockdown: ‘Bringing rough sleepers into hotels helps everybody’
Housing

Covid-19 lockdown: ‘Bringing rough sleepers into hotels helps everybody’

Big Issue vendors concerned about loss of Christmas income
News

Big Issue vendors concerned about loss of Christmas income

The Big Issue needs your help supporting vendors through the new lockdown
News

The Big Issue needs your help supporting vendors through the new lockdown

This year's John Lewis Christmas ad will shine a light on food poverty
Activism

This year's John Lewis Christmas ad will shine a light on food poverty

Gordon Brown launches young person jobs guarantee petition
Gordon Brown
Employment

Gordon Brown launches young person jobs guarantee petition

Fake billboards target HSBC over ‘climate colonialism’
In 2018 HSBC committed to ending funding for new coal projects outside of Vietnam, Bangladesh and Indonesia, but the policy did not apply to schemes already backed by the bank.
Environment

Fake billboards target HSBC over ‘climate colonialism’

£5m Comic Relief fund opens to boost social enterprises through pandemic
Social Enterprise
Activism

£5m Comic Relief fund opens to boost social enterprises through pandemic

Government must avoid homeless 'tragedy in the making' during lockdown
homelessness and Rough sleeping Alexander Baxevanis
Housing

Government must avoid homeless 'tragedy in the making' during lockdown

UK is wasting the skills of homeless veterans, says ex-soldier turned artist
Bran Symondson
Housing

UK is wasting the skills of homeless veterans, says ex-soldier turned artist

Captain Tom Moore has a message of hope for all of us
Captain Tom Moore 1434
Activism

Captain Tom Moore has a message of hope for all of us

Mortgage-holders facing financial ‘cliff edge’ with end of support scheme
Social Justice

Mortgage-holders facing financial ‘cliff edge’ with end of support scheme

Youth homelessness ‘a real, real issue’ as furlough scheme ends
rough sleeper
Housing

Youth homelessness ‘a real, real issue’ as furlough scheme ends

'Having no recourse to public funds violates my human rights'
Rough sleeper
Housing

'Having no recourse to public funds violates my human rights'

Welsh Big Issue vendors struggling through ‘short, sharp firebreak lockdown’
Mark Richards
News

Welsh Big Issue vendors struggling through ‘short, sharp firebreak lockdown’

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Disabled person handed £1,200 in Universal Credit sanctions during lockdown
Three pound coins sit in a pile on top of a £5 note. The Big Issue explains Universal Credit
Social Justice

Disabled person handed £1,200 in Universal Credit sanctions during lockdown

Benjamin Zephaniah surprised by Big Issue vendor’s poetic performance
Benjamin Zephaniah
News

Benjamin Zephaniah surprised by Big Issue vendor’s poetic performance

40,000 renters could face eviction over winter, say tenants campaigners
Renting Yuki Mok/PA
Housing

40,000 renters could face eviction over winter, say tenants campaigners

Vendor with ‘a happy word for everyone’ retires with help from the Big Issue
Easton Christian Louise Haywood Schiefer 1424
News

Vendor with ‘a happy word for everyone’ retires with help from the Big Issue