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Social businesses can deliver systemic change. Here’s how we can help them build a better Britain
Holger Westphely, Big Issue Invest's managing director
Holger Westphely

Social businesses can deliver systemic change. Here’s how we can help them build a better Britain

Big Issue Invest’s ambition is to fill in a missing rung in the ladder to support social businesses’ growth
Inside the charity warehouse offering thousands of families a cost of living lifeline every month
Keely Dalfen at Multibank North West's warehouse
Social Justice

Inside the charity warehouse offering thousands of families a cost of living lifeline every month

The community group who took over a leisure centre to give everyone access to sport and fitness
An older woman working out at BeActive Urmston
Sport

The community group who took over a leisure centre to give everyone access to sport and fitness

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Sustainable Ventures: How Europe’s biggest climate tech hub is innovating to save the planet
Big Issue Invest

Sustainable Ventures: How Europe’s biggest climate tech hub is innovating to save the planet

Leicester Riders: The basketball team taking on knife crime
Sport

Leicester Riders: The basketball team taking on knife crime

Two-thirds of adults predict kids today will be worse off than their parents
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Two-thirds of adults predict kids today will be worse off than their parents

How the Sociability app puts accessibility on the map to help disabled people break down barriers
Accessibility

How the Sociability app puts accessibility on the map to help disabled people break down barriers

Masterchef star Monica Galetti joins restaurant staffed by homeless people
Food

Masterchef star Monica Galetti joins restaurant staffed by homeless people

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

Social Enterprise

How I secured funding to grow my social enterprise
Ruka Hair at an industry event
Big Issue Invest

How I secured funding to grow my social enterprise

What is social impact financing – and should your organisation consider it? 
People packing boxes at a food bank. Representing the type of organisation that might seek social impact financing.
Big Issue Invest

What is social impact financing – and should your organisation consider it? 

The Big Issue Changemakers of 2024: Food and nutrition
Changemakers 2024

The Big Issue Changemakers of 2024: Food and nutrition

Yoga for cooped-up kids gets a boost with Big Issue funding
Big Issue Invest

Yoga for cooped-up kids gets a boost with Big Issue funding

Charity

Meet the people with Alzheimer’s and their families coming together in a dementia run club
Dementia

Meet the people with Alzheimer’s and their families coming together in a dementia run club

I founded a homelessness charity 10 years ago. These are the moments that kept me going
Louise Reed hugging a man facing homelessness in Leeds
Louise Reed

I founded a homelessness charity 10 years ago. These are the moments that kept me going

It’s 15 years since Amy Winehouse died. Here’s how her legacy is helping women overcome addiction
Current and former residents of Amy's Place
Social Justice

It’s 15 years since Amy Winehouse died. Here’s how her legacy is helping women overcome addiction

Rising childcare costs during summer holidays leave working parents paying £1,145 per child
childcare
Social Justice

Rising childcare costs during summer holidays leave working parents paying £1,145 per child

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