Join The Big Community

For 33 years the Big Issue Group has worked to create opportunities for people affected by poverty across the UK. We have been both safety net and a vital platform for those on the margins of society as they rebuild their lives. But we can do more.

And so, Big Issue Group plans for the future coalesced around one clear realisation – it is within the communities and grassroots that the future will be built. There can be no reliance on top-down governmental organisations, but rather local people, businesses and organisations, uniting to create solutions with collective action, that will offer hope of reversing the poverty crisis and building foundational change. And then build pressure on governments to properly act rather than provide sticking plaster short-term solutions.

Welcome to Big Issue’s Big Community. We have three parts to this: the Community Roadshow, the Big Issue Membership scheme and our new Poverty Zero policy call. Find out more in this week’s magazine.

Also inside

• The restaurant serving up a second chance to people who have experienced homelessness
• Adam Pearson has devoted his life to campaigning and raising awareness of disability rights. He delivers a Letter To My Younger Self ahead of his new film A Different Man
• How prisoners teaching others to read is changing life behind bars
• Brassic writer Danny Brocklehurst reflects on how the show has a throughline that began when he used to work at The Big Issue
• From Peckham to the White House with Ted Lasso and Race Across the World star Kola Bokinni
• Will Ferrell takes a crash course in trans advocacy after close friend Harper Steele transitions
• Since selling the magazine in North London, Will has become a Gooner. Now he hopes to make it to a home match

Plus much more!

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