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Press Office

Our Press Office helps journalists with enquiries about the Big Issue Group, issues press releases with updates on our work, and provides experts to the media for commentary on poverty, homelessness, work, welfare reform and more.

If you are a journalist and have a press enquiry please call 020 7526 3381 or email press@bigissue.com. Please note these contact details are for media contacts only. If you are not a journalist, please go to our contacts page for other ways to get in touch.

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Over 5,500 young lives transformed by Big Issue Invest’s £1.25 million investment in world’s first sports-based social outcomes partnership
Saints Foundation project staff deliver a boxing session on the Chances programme in Southampton
Big Issue Invest

Over 5,500 young lives transformed by Big Issue Invest’s £1.25 million investment in world’s first sports-based social outcomes partnership

Three-quarters of the 5,500 young people engaged achieved a meaningful outcome, including improving attendance at school and reduced offending
“The Senedd has failed”: Welsh Labour criticised as Minister admits growing rift with UK Labour at Big Issue Big Debate
John Bird, Rocio Cifuentes, Derek Walker, Will Hayward, Dylan Jones-Evans and Julie James at the Big Issue Big Debate.
Press Release

“The Senedd has failed”: Welsh Labour criticised as Minister admits growing rift with UK Labour at Big Issue Big Debate

Big Issue YouGov GB poll finds more than two-thirds (68%) of Reform supporters want the government to do more to tackle poverty
Lord John Bird, photographed for the Big Issue in 2024.
Press Release

Big Issue YouGov GB poll finds more than two-thirds (68%) of Reform supporters want the government to do more to tackle poverty

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