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The Social Enterprise World Forum will showcase the best of business for good
Social enterprise world forum
Activism

The Social Enterprise World Forum will showcase the best of business for good

Save the arches: Network Rail sells railway arches in £1.5bn deal
Guardians of the Arches
News

Save the arches: Network Rail sells railway arches in £1.5bn deal

Sadiq Khan doubles down on homelessness prevention at hostel re-opening
Housing

Sadiq Khan doubles down on homelessness prevention at hostel re-opening

Private rented properties should undergo a ‘Property MOT’
Renting Yuki Mok/PA
Housing

Private rented properties should undergo a ‘Property MOT’

Arts attack: What's the future for Britain's creative talent?
News

Arts attack: What's the future for Britain's creative talent?

How home education is on the rise as parents opt to keep kids out of schools
News

How home education is on the rise as parents opt to keep kids out of schools

From bean to bar: how ethical investment helps create Ugandan chocolate
Shared Interest, Pink Foods advertorial
Environment

From bean to bar: how ethical investment helps create Ugandan chocolate

Scottish reoffending rates have hit a 19-year low thanks to rehab schemes
News

Scottish reoffending rates have hit a 19-year low thanks to rehab schemes

The post-Brexit plan for non-EU fruit pickers will have "little effect"
Employment

The post-Brexit plan for non-EU fruit pickers will have "little effect"

Does Finland have it right when it comes to education?
News

Does Finland have it right when it comes to education?

Can we teach our way out of the debt crisis?
Financial Education Nost/Pixabay
News

Can we teach our way out of the debt crisis?

Three-year tenancies axed by the government in Tenant Fees Bill shake-up
Social housing
Housing

Three-year tenancies axed by the government in Tenant Fees Bill shake-up

Four million British kids are at risk of malnutrition because of poverty
Social Justice

Four million British kids are at risk of malnutrition because of poverty

How The Big Issue is being used as a teaching tool in schools
Newton Abbot College Big Issue
News

How The Big Issue is being used as a teaching tool in schools

MPs are voting today on introducing misogyny as a hate crime
Politics

MPs are voting today on introducing misogyny as a hate crime

The free childcare offer is driving nurseries to closure, claims report
Social Justice

The free childcare offer is driving nurseries to closure, claims report

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Britain's cultural rendering of the education system is incredibly telling
John Sutherland pop culture hero
News

Britain's cultural rendering of the education system is incredibly telling

Education, Education, Education! Class has started with The Big Issue
News

Education, Education, Education! Class has started with The Big Issue

Popular Barnstaple vendor Dianne has passed away
Dianne Cumper
News

Popular Barnstaple vendor Dianne has passed away

Essex university has created a robot to help save fruit picking from a jam
University of Essex fruit picking
News

Essex university has created a robot to help save fruit picking from a jam