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I fled Sri Lanka after surviving torture. This is how food and family helped me rebuild my life
Nafa

I fled Sri Lanka after surviving torture. This is how food and family helped me rebuild my life

'Cooking and baking unlocked something in me. Simply gathering around food helped me out of my shell'
This afternoon tea is made and served by people with learning disabilities: 'A wonderful celebration'
Man serves afternoon tea
Employment

This afternoon tea is made and served by people with learning disabilities: 'A wonderful celebration'

Top 5 books about food, chosen by Carnivore author K Anis Ahmed
Books

Top 5 books about food, chosen by Carnivore author K Anis Ahmed

Auto-enrol eligible children for free school meals to end 'postcode lottery', government told
Free school meals

Auto-enrol eligible children for free school meals to end 'postcode lottery', government told

33 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the half term
Cost of living crisis

33 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the half term

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Keir Starmer promised to end food bank Britain. Now it feels nothing more than a pipe dream
Sabine Goodwin

Keir Starmer promised to end food bank Britain. Now it feels nothing more than a pipe dream

Meet the chefs braving Russian drones and gunfire to feed troops on Ukraine's frontline
Ukraine war

Meet the chefs braving Russian drones and gunfire to feed troops on Ukraine's frontline

Children need more Welsh veg on their plates, Future Generations Commissioner insists
a boy in school uniform eating a carrot
Food

Children need more Welsh veg on their plates, Future Generations Commissioner insists

Meet the community champions working to end hunger and keep Britain fed: 'Hunger is solvable'
Food poverty

Meet the community champions working to end hunger and keep Britain fed: 'Hunger is solvable'

How bringing back Churchill's wartime canteen culture could help tackle food poverty
Food

How bringing back Churchill's wartime canteen culture could help tackle food poverty

Inside the Big Issue: VE Day is 80 – but the war on poverty remains
Big Issue 1665 cover
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: VE Day is 80 – but the war on poverty remains

Food banks receiving 'rotten' donations from supermarkets 'not fit for human consumption'
food banks
Food banks

Food banks receiving 'rotten' donations from supermarkets 'not fit for human consumption'

Big Issue's new Big Grow initiative set to transform communities through urban gardening
St Georges Church on the corner of Colegate and Magdalen Street in the city of Norwich, Norfolk captured on a dull and wet Sunday.
Big Grow

Big Issue's new Big Grow initiative set to transform communities through urban gardening

Electric van to help charity deliver 50,000 meals to homeless people
Four people stand around an electric van
Homelessness

Electric van to help charity deliver 50,000 meals to homeless people

Food banks aren’t the solution to poverty – especially when businesses use them to dump food waste
Man looking through food bank basked
Carina Millstone

Food banks aren’t the solution to poverty – especially when businesses use them to dump food waste

I'm a market gardener. Here's why you've probably never really tasted a tomato before
10Foot Takeover

I'm a market gardener. Here's why you've probably never really tasted a tomato before

Victorian illnesses like rickets are on the rise. We need radical change to end malnutrition
Lynn Perry

Victorian illnesses like rickets are on the rise. We need radical change to end malnutrition

This is the 'most thoughtful and inspiring' food project celebrity chef Levi Roots has ever seen
Levi Roots cuts the ribbon to launch the INI Food and Wellbeing Centre. To his right is Sistah Stella Headley and to his left is Jean-Michel Grand, the chief executive of Action Against Hunger UK.
Food poverty

This is the 'most thoughtful and inspiring' food project celebrity chef Levi Roots has ever seen

Healthy foods 'more than twice as expensive' as unhealthy foods, report finds: 'We're in a bad place'
Photo shows several people standing with easels as part of The Food Foundation's Broken Plate exhibition
Food

Healthy foods 'more than twice as expensive' as unhealthy foods, report finds: 'We're in a bad place'

Big Issue's Changemakers of 2025: Food and nutrition
Changemakers 2025

Big Issue's Changemakers of 2025: Food and nutrition

Hunger is a political choice. How do we end it in 2025?
child in a refugee camp
Dr Regina Murphy Keith

Hunger is a political choice. How do we end it in 2025?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Community meals and workers' rights: What happens if councils seize Deliveroo and Uber Eats' 'ghost kitchens'?
Deliveroo driver waits outside a cafe
Ghost Kitchens

Community meals and workers' rights: What happens if councils seize Deliveroo and Uber Eats' 'ghost kitchens'?

Farmers have every right to complain – but their gripes are being hijacked by right-wing chancers
Adam Barnett

Farmers have every right to complain – but their gripes are being hijacked by right-wing chancers

Last Christmas I was in prison. This year I'm working in a London fine-dining restaurant
Christmas

Last Christmas I was in prison. This year I'm working in a London fine-dining restaurant

Number of people turning to food banks is shocking – but it's the tip of the hunger iceberg
woman packing food parcels in food bank
Sabine Goodwin

Number of people turning to food banks is shocking – but it's the tip of the hunger iceberg

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