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Big Issue Group launches campaign demanding long-term solutions to protect future generations and break the cycle of poverty
Big Futures
Big Futures

Big Issue Group launches campaign demanding long-term solutions to protect future generations and break the cycle of poverty

'I begged food bank workers for body wash for my children': The bleak reality of hygiene poverty in the UK
Washing hands/ hygiene poverty
Cost of living crisis

'I begged food bank workers for body wash for my children': The bleak reality of hygiene poverty in the UK

Can you live off £1 a day? We asked experts about the TikTok trend
TikTok £1 a day challenges
Cost of living crisis

Can you live off £1 a day? We asked experts about the TikTok trend

Students in east London will be paid to go to school as mayor brings back EMA amid cost of living crisis
Students in a classroom
Social Justice

Students in east London will be paid to go to school as mayor brings back EMA amid cost of living crisis

How graffiti artist Opake overcame addiction and homelessness and is now changing lives
Opake
Art

How graffiti artist Opake overcame addiction and homelessness and is now changing lives

Food banks are being forced to cut staple items because of soaring grocery costs
food banks/ rising costs
Food banks

Food banks are being forced to cut staple items because of soaring grocery costs

Do the TikTok plant pot candle heaters work? We asked a thermodynamics expert
plant pot candle heater
Energy bills

Do the TikTok plant pot candle heaters work? We asked a thermodynamics expert

Children are 'eating rubbers and stealing food' at school because they are hungry
Child in class/ Hungry in school
Cost of living crisis

Children are 'eating rubbers and stealing food' at school because they are hungry

Food banks warn Liz Truss they're at 'breaking point' in open letter delivered to Downing Street
representatives of food banks outside downing street
Food banks

Food banks warn Liz Truss they're at 'breaking point' in open letter delivered to Downing Street

Jeremy Hunt has massively scaled back Liz Truss's energy bills support
Jeremy Hunt/ Energy bills support
Energy bills

Jeremy Hunt has massively scaled back Liz Truss's energy bills support

Diary of a food bank manager: Community initiatives are just plugging gaps in the system
Diary of a food bank manager

Diary of a food bank manager: Community initiatives are just plugging gaps in the system

The government promised to help with the cost of living. So how far is the household support fund going?
Liz Truss/ Household support fund
Cost of living crisis

The government promised to help with the cost of living. So how far is the household support fund going?

How one of the most deprived neighbourhoods in the UK is tackling the cost of living crisis
Barking and Dagenham
Cost of living crisis

How one of the most deprived neighbourhoods in the UK is tackling the cost of living crisis

Kwasi Kwarteng remains tight-lipped over how huge tax cuts will be funded
Kwasi Kwarteng
Economy

Kwasi Kwarteng remains tight-lipped over how huge tax cuts will be funded

Expanding free school meals for all children on universal credit could bring billions in economic gains, government told
Free school meals/ Easter holidays
Free school meals

Expanding free school meals for all children on universal credit could bring billions in economic gains, government told

Birmingham Uni slammed for asking staff to donate to a food bank for students while in £58m surplus
University of Birmingham
Social Justice

Birmingham Uni slammed for asking staff to donate to a food bank for students while in £58m surplus

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'They put my life in danger': The crisis in children's mental health services
Image of boy/ Children's mental health
Mental health

'They put my life in danger': The crisis in children's mental health services

'This is austerity 2.0': Outcry as government plots cuts to public spending
Cost of living crisis

'This is austerity 2.0': Outcry as government plots cuts to public spending

Will Poulter: 'To not be able to access food is just unthinkably unfair'
Will Poulter talks to Aneita Lewis about what it's like to get by on insufficient money.
Social Justice

Will Poulter: 'To not be able to access food is just unthinkably unfair'

Home Office visa delays are 'pushing people into poverty'
a man's silhouette/ visa/ home office immigration policy is pushing people into poverty
Immigration

Home Office visa delays are 'pushing people into poverty'