health and wellbeing

Majority of disabled people would like to exercise more but fear the DWP would cut their benefits
A person racing in a wheelchair. I
benefits

Majority of disabled people would like to exercise more but fear the DWP would cut their benefits

Many benefit claimants are caught in the “activity trap”: they want to be more active, but worry that their benefits will be revoked
Inside the Big Issue: Prison Break
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Prison Break

Disability campaigners criticise report proposing PIP cuts: 'Very concerning'
DWP, benefits
Personal Independence Payment

Disability campaigners criticise report proposing PIP cuts: 'Very concerning'

What Britain can learn from other countries about reducing drug deaths
Dr Kamalroop Singh

What Britain can learn from other countries about reducing drug deaths

Inside the Big Issue: The limitless Lenny Rush
Lenny Rush

Inside the Big Issue: The limitless Lenny Rush

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Sir Alex Ferguson's dementia playlist: 'Music is one of the best things that can help'
Sir Alex Ferguson signs on for Playlist for Life
Dementia

Sir Alex Ferguson's dementia playlist: 'Music is one of the best things that can help'

The government wants you to buy tinned food to prepare for a crisis. What if you can't afford it?
images of fruit and vegetables on cans to showcase food poverty
Food

The government wants you to buy tinned food to prepare for a crisis. What if you can't afford it?

'A child's life can be made easier by money arriving when it should'
a child at a food shop
Baroness Maeve Sherlock

'A child's life can be made easier by money arriving when it should'

Inside the Big Issue: KSI's got talent
Big Issue cover 1737 featuring multiple photos of KSI
Behind the scenes

Inside the Big Issue: KSI's got talent

Will you become an unpaid carer? Brits underestimate how many will care for a relative for free
Unpaid carer Kevin Cameron and his son Tristan
Unpaid carers

Will you become an unpaid carer? Brits underestimate how many will care for a relative for free

How a British man was pulled into modern slavery working at a food court in the heart of London
An illystration of people walking in a line to illustrate modern slavery
Modern slavery

How a British man was pulled into modern slavery working at a food court in the heart of London

Influencers are using smart glasses to film homeless people. It's exploiting people for views
An illustration of smart glasses in Orwellian style
Technology

Influencers are using smart glasses to film homeless people. It's exploiting people for views

Inside the Big Issue: Smart glasses on the streets
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Smart glasses on the streets

Why the music you love listening to right now could be a dementia lifeline in the future
Carol and Malcolm enjoying music together as part of Playlist for Life.
Michael Timmons

Why the music you love listening to right now could be a dementia lifeline in the future

It has taken years to regulate bailiffs. Stopping intimidation is as important as recovering debt
a hand holding a bill with past due stamped on it
Vikki Brownridge

It has taken years to regulate bailiffs. Stopping intimidation is as important as recovering debt

Labour is facing calls to means-test disability benefit PIP. Here's why it would push up poverty
Andy Burnham
Disability benefits

Labour is facing calls to means-test disability benefit PIP. Here's why it would push up poverty

My daughter collapsed and died before my eyes. I learned British Sign Language to process my grief
Dave Healey with his daughter Sarah, who collapsed and died at her father-in-law's funeral
Grief

My daughter collapsed and died before my eyes. I learned British Sign Language to process my grief

More children will get free school meals this school year. Here's what you need to know
child eating meal at school
Free school meals

More children will get free school meals this school year. Here's what you need to know

What are Andy Burnham's cost of living plans and what will they mean for you?
Andy Burnham as he arrived at 10 Downing Street.
Cost of living

What are Andy Burnham's cost of living plans and what will they mean for you?

How Big Issue saved vendor Robin Price's life as magazine turns 35: 'Without them, I’d be dead’
Robin Price
our vendors

How Big Issue saved vendor Robin Price's life as magazine turns 35: 'Without them, I’d be dead’

Timms Review recommends changes to 'dehumanising' PIP assessment process
stephen timms
Disability benefits

Timms Review recommends changes to 'dehumanising' PIP assessment process

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
British public don't back cuts to disability benefits – even Reform and Tory voters
The Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) in Norwich demonstrated outside the PIP offices in central Norwich in 2016
Disability benefits

British public don't back cuts to disability benefits – even Reform and Tory voters

London's walk-in homelessness services are closing. It's driving homeless people to hospital instead
A hospital waiting room
homelessness

London's walk-in homelessness services are closing. It's driving homeless people to hospital instead

The taskforce making music accessible for people with dementia: 'It's not all Vera Lynn'
Music

The taskforce making music accessible for people with dementia: 'It's not all Vera Lynn'

Inside the charity warehouse offering thousands of families a cost of living lifeline every month
Keely Dalfen at Multibank North West's warehouse
Social Justice

Inside the charity warehouse offering thousands of families a cost of living lifeline every month