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Football fans protest new Premier League fees with food bank donations
NUFC Fans Foodbank PA Images Richard Sellars
Activism

Football fans protest new Premier League fees with food bank donations

'Worse is still to come' as 1m children rely on school meals for first time
Free school meals
Social Justice

'Worse is still to come' as 1m children rely on school meals for first time

World Homeless Day 2020: Pandemic through the eyes of vendors
Housing

World Homeless Day 2020: Pandemic through the eyes of vendors

Migrant and LGBT rough sleepers 'left behind' by Everyone In campaign
homeless deaths
Housing

Migrant and LGBT rough sleepers 'left behind' by Everyone In campaign

Grant Shapps: ‘Government must cling on to rough sleeping gains’
Grant Shapps parliament
Housing

Grant Shapps: ‘Government must cling on to rough sleeping gains’

What happens when you give homeless people free money?
Universal Basic Income credit jessiegolem.com
Housing

What happens when you give homeless people free money?

Check out arty vendor John Cahill's masterpiece in Paddington Station
John Cahill Network Rail
News

Check out arty vendor John Cahill's masterpiece in Paddington Station

‘Lives will be lost’ without action on winter homelessness
homelessness and Rough sleeping Alexander Baxevanis
Housing

‘Lives will be lost’ without action on winter homelessness

Your RORA idea: 'Millionaires can pitch into central housing fund'
RORA
Housing

Your RORA idea: 'Millionaires can pitch into central housing fund'

Fact/Fiction: Can parrots really teach each other to swear?
Fact Fiction 1430 Miles Cole
News

Fact/Fiction: Can parrots really teach each other to swear?

Lords hear pleas for EU citizens to get physical proof of settled status
Politics

Lords hear pleas for EU citizens to get physical proof of settled status

UK's poorest areas facing Covid-19 'double whammy' of illness and poverty
Social Justice

UK's poorest areas facing Covid-19 'double whammy' of illness and poverty

Shelter eye £12.2bn social home rescue package to build out of Covid crisis
Housing

Shelter eye £12.2bn social home rescue package to build out of Covid crisis

Prince William introduces star-studded cookbook in aid of homeless charity
Prince William serving food
Housing

Prince William introduces star-studded cookbook in aid of homeless charity

Covid-19’s economic storm ‘blowing Scottish child poverty targets off course’
Social Justice

Covid-19’s economic storm ‘blowing Scottish child poverty targets off course’

Job coach scheme 'too little too late' to save thousands from unemployment
Employment

Job coach scheme 'too little too late' to save thousands from unemployment

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Gordon Brown: 'Joblessness, homelessness and hopelessness are not inevitable'
Gordon Brown
News

Gordon Brown: 'Joblessness, homelessness and hopelessness are not inevitable'

Right to Buy at 40: The controversial policy that transformed lives
Thatcher hands over deeds to council house
Housing

Right to Buy at 40: The controversial policy that transformed lives

Black people in UK 'three times as likely to experience homelessness’
Black homelessness Pixabay
Housing

Black people in UK 'three times as likely to experience homelessness’

Why do we believe conspiracy theories? Our vendor expert explains
Politics

Why do we believe conspiracy theories? Our vendor expert explains