environment and community

Why it's time for heated conversations on the cost of energy
Paul McNamee

Why it's time for heated conversations on the cost of energy

The cost of energy impacts everything. Answers are needed urgently
Inside the Millennium Seed Bank, our biological safety net in a changing world
Food

Inside the Millennium Seed Bank, our biological safety net in a changing world

Science writer Alex Riley: 'Even if humans cause mass extinction, life will still endure'
Life

Science writer Alex Riley: 'Even if humans cause mass extinction, life will still endure'

Rhinos have become the face of extinction, but now there's a small ray of hope
Conservation

Rhinos have become the face of extinction, but now there's a small ray of hope

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved
Christmas

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
How to volunteer at a food bank
volunteers arrange food donations along rows of crates on tables
Food banks

How to volunteer at a food bank

Two-child benefit cap axed and wage hikes: What Rachel Reeves' autumn budget means for your money
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her 2025 autumn budget
Autumn budget

Two-child benefit cap axed and wage hikes: What Rachel Reeves' autumn budget means for your money

'It's not like a normal pub': How communities are rallying together to breathe new life into dying pubs
Pubs

'It's not like a normal pub': How communities are rallying together to breathe new life into dying pubs

This 1930s three-bedroom semi-detached family home will see tenants save big on energy bills
Ferndale Rise in Cambridge before and after renovation
Housing

This 1930s three-bedroom semi-detached family home will see tenants save big on energy bills

How did Rachel Reeves do in her first autumn budget? We ask people on the frontlines, one year on
Chancellor Rachel Reeves
autumn budget

How did Rachel Reeves do in her first autumn budget? We ask people on the frontlines, one year on

The government's new immigration 'shake up' will only punish torture survivors like me
Kolbassia Haoussou

The government's new immigration 'shake up' will only punish torture survivors like me

UK wants to model its asylum system on Denmark's. This is why it's a bad idea
Victoria Canning

UK wants to model its asylum system on Denmark's. This is why it's a bad idea

I'm an Anacé chief in Brazil. For Indigenous people, resistance is not a choice. It's survival
Chief Roberto Ytaysaba Anacé

I'm an Anacé chief in Brazil. For Indigenous people, resistance is not a choice. It's survival

Big Issue vendor 'loses everything' in Storm Claudia floods that left him 'worried for his life'
Big Issue vendor Vincent Lewis
Our Vendors

Big Issue vendor 'loses everything' in Storm Claudia floods that left him 'worried for his life'

Shabana Mahmood's asylum crackdown is enough to make Scrooge blush – but it's not too late to change
British Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood. The Five Country Ministerial 2025 held in Central London
Ravishaan Rahel Muthiah

Shabana Mahmood's asylum crackdown is enough to make Scrooge blush – but it's not too late to change

There's 'awareness' of trans people – but too often it's the wrong kind
Ayla Holdom and loved ones
Ayla Holdom

There's 'awareness' of trans people – but too often it's the wrong kind

We ran a food bank for a decade. This is the important reason why we stopped
Food

We ran a food bank for a decade. This is the important reason why we stopped

What a soup kitchen in London's financial district thinks about a windfall tax on the banks
Banking tax

What a soup kitchen in London's financial district thinks about a windfall tax on the banks

Sowing seeds of change: How Big Issue's Big Grow is cultivating community and resilience 
Food

Sowing seeds of change: How Big Issue's Big Grow is cultivating community and resilience 

Queer people must be visible in the face of division, says drag legend Jonny Woo
Culture

Queer people must be visible in the face of division, says drag legend Jonny Woo

Trespasses star Lola Petticrew: 'I'm an artist because I'm an activist – I can't separate it'
TV

Trespasses star Lola Petticrew: 'I'm an artist because I'm an activist – I can't separate it'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
George Lamb on how an Ibiza dance floor set him on a farming odyssey: 'We need resilience in our food system'
Food

George Lamb on how an Ibiza dance floor set him on a farming odyssey: 'We need resilience in our food system'

Sudan war exposes hypocrisy of UK government's treatment of asylum seekers
Boy on a cattle farm in south Sudan in 2024.
Ben Whitham

Sudan war exposes hypocrisy of UK government's treatment of asylum seekers

Four in 10 Brits go a whole week without a meaningful talk with a stranger, Big Issue study reveals
Christmas

Four in 10 Brits go a whole week without a meaningful talk with a stranger, Big Issue study reveals

Modern fishing is going further, bigger and deeper than ever. But there's a big catch
Food

Modern fishing is going further, bigger and deeper than ever. But there's a big catch