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Explained

11 ways to spread kindness without spending money
Random Acts of Kindness
Random Acts of Kindness Day

11 ways to spread kindness without spending money

What is a social enterprise?
social enterprise
Explained

What is a social enterprise?

DWP benefit payment dates in February 2025 – and how much benefits will go up this year
picture of money next to a clock representing dwp benefit payment dates
Benefits

DWP benefit payment dates in February 2025 – and how much benefits will go up this year

What is the Renters' Rights Bill? All you need to know about Labour’s plan to end no-fault evictions
Protesters from the London Renters Union protest high rents in May 2024
RENTING

What is the Renters' Rights Bill? All you need to know about Labour’s plan to end no-fault evictions

Disability benefit reforms and universal credit rise: All the DWP benefit changes to expect in 2025
DWP secretary Liz Kendall on the left and Keir Starmer on the right chatting with pensioners
Department for Work and Pensions

Disability benefit reforms and universal credit rise: All the DWP benefit changes to expect in 2025

Fuel poverty in the UK: Why can’t people pay their energy bills?
a side-on view of a gas hob which has been lit
Cost of living crisis

Fuel poverty in the UK: Why can’t people pay their energy bills?

Here's when pensioners will get the winter fuel payment in 2024
pensioner
Benefits

Here's when pensioners will get the winter fuel payment in 2024

Warm home discount: Am I eligible and how can I apply?
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Cost of living crisis

Warm home discount: Am I eligible and how can I apply?

Where to get a free Christmas dinner in your community this year
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Christmas

Where to get a free Christmas dinner in your community this year

Get Britain Working: What are Labour's plans for the DWP, benefits and employment support?
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Department for Work and Pensions

Get Britain Working: What are Labour's plans for the DWP, benefits and employment support?

Which charities are fighting homelessness in the UK?
a group of different coloured tents are pitched on the street in a city environment
Homelessness

Which charities are fighting homelessness in the UK?

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

Here's how to donate to a food bank near you this winter
a man sorts food donations into crates at a food bank
Food banks

Here's how to donate to a food bank near you this winter

What are the causes of homelessness?
a black and white image of a rough sleeper while people walk past in the street
Homelessness

What are the causes of homelessness?

Benefit changes, universal credit and crackdown on fraud: How Labour's budget impacts benefits
rachel reeves outside downing street with the budget
Autumn budget

Benefit changes, universal credit and crackdown on fraud: How Labour's budget impacts benefits

'We're extremely nervous': Here's what Labour's autumn budget might mean for benefit claimants
Rachel Reeves
Autumn budget

'We're extremely nervous': Here's what Labour's autumn budget might mean for benefit claimants

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
What is a warm bank? The places you can go to get warm this winter
Image of woman getting warm by a fire
Cost of living crisis

What is a warm bank? The places you can go to get warm this winter

How to get pension credit and ensure you get the winter fuel payment in 2024
Elderly couple happy
Pensions

How to get pension credit and ensure you get the winter fuel payment in 2024

Interest rates have been cut for the first time in more than four years. What does it mean for you?
bank of england
Bank of England

Interest rates have been cut for the first time in more than four years. What does it mean for you?

Will free school meals and vouchers be offered over the summer holidays?
Free school meals/ Easter holidays
Free school meals

Will free school meals and vouchers be offered over the summer holidays?