learning and employment

Can Britain actually afford the real living wage?
Hands holding a piggy bank
Employment

Can Britain actually afford the real living wage?

The real living wage is going up again. It's a pay rise for employees but employers face a tough decision
Blindboy: 'If I were prime minister I'd stop billionaires buying political power'
PM For The PM

Blindboy: 'If I were prime minister I'd stop billionaires buying political power'

The football food van serving up jobs for out-of-work young people
Stuffed Gourmet Trailers food van outside St Mary's Stadium in Southampton
Food

The football food van serving up jobs for out-of-work young people

Fat Macy's: The training academy lifting young people out of homelessness and into hospitality jobs
Employment

Fat Macy's: The training academy lifting young people out of homelessness and into hospitality jobs

The Apprentice's Tim Campbell: 'I'd make degrees free. We should treat education as infrastructure'
PM For The PM

The Apprentice's Tim Campbell: 'I'd make degrees free. We should treat education as infrastructure'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Dealing with the cost of living is essential to help young people out of Britain’s NEETs crisis
young people looking out on the sunset
Kamran Malekzai

Dealing with the cost of living is essential to help young people out of Britain’s NEETs crisis

'I grew up in social housing and now I'm going to Harvard. It's given me drive to change the world'
Monay Thomas in a graduation gown and mortar board celebrating her graduation from LSE
Education

'I grew up in social housing and now I'm going to Harvard. It's given me drive to change the world'

‘I got a job so quickly. Big Issue Recruit changed my life’
Hollie found a job with C&C Group thanks to the help of Big Issue Recruit
Big Issue Recruit

‘I got a job so quickly. Big Issue Recruit changed my life’

I'm a KFC youth worker. Young people aren't a lost cause – we're failing them at the first hurdle
Young people at the KFC Youth Foundation Middlesborough Youth Hub.
Ellie Smith

I'm a KFC youth worker. Young people aren't a lost cause – we're failing them at the first hurdle

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 your first job can determine what you earn for the rest of your career
a woman shaking hands with a man at a desk
Employment

How your first job can determine what you earn for the rest of your career

Over a million workers 'trapped in poverty' as they lose nearly £500 a month in cancelled shifts
A barista at work. Insecure work can be expensive for employees
insecure work

Over a million workers 'trapped in poverty' as they lose nearly £500 a month in cancelled shifts

'Disabled people are having to work 10 times harder to live their life and pursue their dreams'
Bella Roberts
Employment

'Disabled people are having to work 10 times harder to live their life and pursue their dreams'

Munya Chawawa and Jack Rooke: 'How can we make sure new theatre makers aren’t all Oxbridge people?'
Jack Rooke and Munya Chawawa
Comedy

Munya Chawawa and Jack Rooke: 'How can we make sure new theatre makers aren’t all Oxbridge people?'

Chicken Shop Date star Amelia Dimoldenberg: 'Young people are always the first to bear the brunt of cuts'
Amelia Dimoldenberg
Employment

Chicken Shop Date star Amelia Dimoldenberg: 'Young people are always the first to bear the brunt of cuts'

'Everyone wants a job and it's a nightmare': What it's like to be a NEET young person in Britain
wren hill
Youth unemployment

'Everyone wants a job and it's a nightmare': What it's like to be a NEET young person in Britain

Hip hop star Loyle Carner is cooking up solutions for young people with ADHD at Chilli Con Carner
Loyle Carner with people from his cooking school Chilli Con Carner
Neurodiversity

Hip hop star Loyle Carner is cooking up solutions for young people with ADHD at Chilli Con Carner

Inside Holiday Club: the summer school helping NEET young people start creative careers
Holiday Culb magazine
Creative jobs

Inside Holiday Club: the summer school helping NEET young people start creative careers

Maya Jama: 'Breaking into the creative industries shouldn’t come down to who you know'
Maya Jama
Employment

Maya Jama: 'Breaking into the creative industries shouldn’t come down to who you know'

NEETs crisis: How did one million young people fall off the career ladder?
Shuab Gamote
NEETs

NEETs crisis: How did one million young people fall off the career ladder?

Amelia Dimoldenberg: How can young people thrive if there are no places left for them to grow?
Amelia Dimoldenberg
Amelia Dimoldenberg

Amelia Dimoldenberg: How can young people thrive if there are no places left for them to grow?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Formula E and giffgaff partner to create new opportunities for Big Issue Recruit candidates
Partnership

Formula E and giffgaff partner to create new opportunities for Big Issue Recruit candidates

'I've done more for my community through boxing than I ever did in a police uniform'
Dan O’Sullivan, chair of the Dagenham Amateur Boxing Club.
Social Justice

'I've done more for my community through boxing than I ever did in a police uniform'

Inside the innovative employment pilot bringing jobs to overlooked young people's doorsteps
JobsPlus staff and community champions from across the country at a recent Learning in Action event
Employment

Inside the innovative employment pilot bringing jobs to overlooked young people's doorsteps

The UK can’t achieve growth and lower poverty with a million young people locked out of opportunity
young people with skateboards sat around on phones
Richard Rigby

The UK can’t achieve growth and lower poverty with a million young people locked out of opportunity