What is the truth about crisis pregnancy centres? The anti-abortion facilities creeping across Britain
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Abortion

What is the truth about crisis pregnancy centres? The anti-abortion facilities creeping across Britain

Abortion is close to decriminalisation. But how quickly can rights and progress be rolled back?
abortion rights protest
Abortion

Abortion is close to decriminalisation. But how quickly can rights and progress be rolled back?

Big Issue's greatest interviews in history published in a collection for the first time
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Big Issue

Big Issue's greatest interviews in history published in a collection for the first time

Big Issue ambassador Kwajo Tweneboa launches podcast to reveal famous faces' humble beginnings
Kwajo Tweneboa
Podcasts

Big Issue ambassador Kwajo Tweneboa launches podcast to reveal famous faces' humble beginnings

Bear Grylls puts focus on hidden homelessness in new short film: 'We can break the stigma'
Bear Grylls reading a Big Issue magazine in a short film about hidden homelessness
Homelessness

Bear Grylls puts focus on hidden homelessness in new short film: 'We can break the stigma'

Labour pledges homelessness cash boost to help kids in temporary accommodation ahead of winter
a homeless man sleeping rough
Homelessness

Labour pledges homelessness cash boost to help kids in temporary accommodation ahead of winter

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations
Big Issue Invest MD Holger Westphely.
Big Issue Invest

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations

One mum's months-long ordeal to find out how her son died in a homeless hostel: 'I need answers'
Former Big Issue vendor Richard Sanders
Homelessness

One mum's months-long ordeal to find out how her son died in a homeless hostel: 'I need answers'

DWP job advisers will soon be in GP surgeries and mental health services
two people on chairs having a discussion. a form is in the centre
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP job advisers will soon be in GP surgeries and mental health services

More than £4bn in benefits will go unclaimed in London this year: 'Too many people miss out'
Benefits

More than £4bn in benefits will go unclaimed in London this year: 'Too many people miss out'

Four people died while homeless every day in the UK last year: 'People continue to be failed'
Homeless deaths tribute
Homelessness

Four people died while homeless every day in the UK last year: 'People continue to be failed'

New way for Big Issue vendors to take cashless payments up for prestigious award
Big Issue vendor with the fumopay QR code
Our vendors

New way for Big Issue vendors to take cashless payments up for prestigious award

Homeless people needed protecting from hot weather more than ever before in 2025
a homeless man in hot weather
Homelessness

Homeless people needed protecting from hot weather more than ever before in 2025

Kinship carers are sleeping on sofas and floors to keep children out of care, study finds
A person sleeping on a sofa wrapped in a duvet
Care system

Kinship carers are sleeping on sofas and floors to keep children out of care, study finds

Hidden crisis of fires ripping through Gypsy and Traveller sites is 'a fatal tragedy waiting to happen'
A burnt down caravan at Ver Meadows
Gypsies and Travellers

Hidden crisis of fires ripping through Gypsy and Traveller sites is 'a fatal tragedy waiting to happen'

Rent controls coming to Scotland as Holyrood passes 'ground-breaking' housing bill
Living Rent campaigners demand rent controls outside Holyrood
Housing

Rent controls coming to Scotland as Holyrood passes 'ground-breaking' housing bill

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Labour could replace two-child limit with a tapered system. Is it enough to tackle child poverty?
Prime minister Keir Starmer speaking at the Labour conference.
Child poverty

Labour could replace two-child limit with a tapered system. Is it enough to tackle child poverty?

The Hack creator Jack Thorne: 'We're living in a world where no one seems to trust anything'
TV

The Hack creator Jack Thorne: 'We're living in a world where no one seems to trust anything'

Inside the mission to make Cumbria the first anti-racist county in the UK
Anti Racist Cumbria - three people holding hands and skipping
Racism

Inside the mission to make Cumbria the first anti-racist county in the UK

Big Issue and Lenovo partner to support digital access for UK social enterprises
Jack from Neuropool, Lord Bird founder of the Big Issue, Ruth from DWRM. Image Credit - Sophie Okonkwo.
Digital inclusion

Big Issue and Lenovo partner to support digital access for UK social enterprises