This is your last chance to sign the petition to protect our libraries
group of elementary school kids and their teacher lying down while working in the library
Activism

This is your last chance to sign the petition to protect our libraries

Pupils become Big Issue vendors for the day in a special edition sell-off
News

Pupils become Big Issue vendors for the day in a special edition sell-off

Targeted and imprisoned: The shocking reality of modern slavery in Britain
News

Targeted and imprisoned: The shocking reality of modern slavery in Britain

UK employment may be highest since 1971, but millions still live in poverty
Employment

UK employment may be highest since 1971, but millions still live in poverty

Changemakers: Sarah Burrows ensures prisoners' kids are heard and seen
Sarah Burrows Changemaker
Social Justice

Changemakers: Sarah Burrows ensures prisoners' kids are heard and seen

Huge turnout for late Paignton vendor Tony Lucas’ funeral
Tony Lucas
News

Huge turnout for late Paignton vendor Tony Lucas’ funeral

Fact/Fiction: Are working mums to blame for Britain’s child obesity crisis?
Fact/Fiction 1350 Miles Cole
News

Fact/Fiction: Are working mums to blame for Britain’s child obesity crisis?

How The Big Issue is tackling modern slavery
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News

How The Big Issue is tackling modern slavery

Proposed Universal Basic Income model could "cost less than welfare reforms"
News

Proposed Universal Basic Income model could "cost less than welfare reforms"

School pupils create and sell a very special edition of The Big Issue
News

School pupils create and sell a very special edition of The Big Issue

This is how homeless people are getting trapped in modern slavery
Homeless man on bench
Housing

This is how homeless people are getting trapped in modern slavery

Ed Sheeran is speaking up about homeless deaths for Comic Relief
Ed Sheeran
Housing

Ed Sheeran is speaking up about homeless deaths for Comic Relief

Online property giant Zoopla is removing 'No DSS' from adverts on its sites
Housing

Online property giant Zoopla is removing 'No DSS' from adverts on its sites

Government must 'end fixation with Brexit' to stop pupil poverty
School child
News

Government must 'end fixation with Brexit' to stop pupil poverty

Vendor City Guide: Memphis, USA
News

Vendor City Guide: Memphis, USA

Homeless NHS patients released to streets is 'the system failing people'
Academics said racism in healthcare was driving down health levels in ethnic minorities
Housing

Homeless NHS patients released to streets is 'the system failing people'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Council tells woman with mental illnesses she can 'cope' with sleeping rough
Housing

Council tells woman with mental illnesses she can 'cope' with sleeping rough

Social Bite teams up with Malala Yousafzai for global sleepout
Social Bite Malala
Housing

Social Bite teams up with Malala Yousafzai for global sleepout

Universities must make radical changes to help care leavers thrive, say MPs
News

Universities must make radical changes to help care leavers thrive, say MPs

Hammond gives Spring Statement period poverty and affordable housing boost
Politics

Hammond gives Spring Statement period poverty and affordable housing boost