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Big Issue teams up with Gordon Brown to call for emergency budget to fight October price cap rise
Gordon Brown
Cost of living crisis

Big Issue teams up with Gordon Brown to call for emergency budget to fight October price cap rise

This evaporating pavement art is highlighting how heatwaves are a threat to rough sleepers
homeless in heatwave
UK HEATWAVE

This evaporating pavement art is highlighting how heatwaves are a threat to rough sleepers

‘They’re heroes’: Teens from Young Black Men scheme rescue vulnerable people from burning building
Community heroes

‘They’re heroes’: Teens from Young Black Men scheme rescue vulnerable people from burning building

Hundreds of Amazon warehouse workers stage wildcat strikes over 'pathetic' pay rise
Strikes

Hundreds of Amazon warehouse workers stage wildcat strikes over 'pathetic' pay rise

People with experience of homelessness are being given jobs in the NHS to help others
Homelessness

People with experience of homelessness are being given jobs in the NHS to help others

1 in 5 key worker families have children growing up in poverty
child reading a book on a sofa
In-work poverty

1 in 5 key worker families have children growing up in poverty

Free school meals pupils earn less than their peers - and the gap only widens as they get older
Free school meals

Free school meals pupils earn less than their peers - and the gap only widens as they get older

Met Police slammed for secrecy over cost of failed Sarah Everard vigil appeals
sarah everard vigil
Met Police

Met Police slammed for secrecy over cost of failed Sarah Everard vigil appeals

Renters fear landlords will pass on biggest interest rates hike in 27 years
bank of england raise interest rates but what will it mean for renters
RENTING

Renters fear landlords will pass on biggest interest rates hike in 27 years

Amazon warehouse workers down tools to protest 35p pay rise
Low pay

Amazon warehouse workers down tools to protest 35p pay rise

'Simply inhumane': Charities slam switch to quarterly energy price cap with bills set to hit £4,000
A lit gas hob
Energy crisis

'Simply inhumane': Charities slam switch to quarterly energy price cap with bills set to hit £4,000

What happened to Liz Truss's pledge to stamp out workplace sexual harassment?
Liz Truss outside a van in South Wraxall
Employment

What happened to Liz Truss's pledge to stamp out workplace sexual harassment?

‘We tried to throw the rule book out’: How a trailblazing housing scheme will help rough sleepers
Homelessness

‘We tried to throw the rule book out’: How a trailblazing housing scheme will help rough sleepers

Here’s how much more than you the UK's top CEOs earn
World's best boss mug
Low pay

Here’s how much more than you the UK's top CEOs earn

Major building society says it will stop offering mortgages on second homes
second homes
Second homes

Major building society says it will stop offering mortgages on second homes

Charity fighting social exclusion in Bristol receives funding boost
Phoenix Social Enterprise
Social Justice

Charity fighting social exclusion in Bristol receives funding boost

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Liz Truss vows to make rent payments count in mortgage assessments if she’s named prime minister
Liz Truss
Tory Leadership Race

Liz Truss vows to make rent payments count in mortgage assessments if she’s named prime minister

Activists plaster fake Barclays adverts across London Underground in fossil fuel protest
Spoof tube adverts that state
Climate activism

Activists plaster fake Barclays adverts across London Underground in fossil fuel protest

Record numbers of people are seeking help because they can't pay their energy bills
Citizens Advice/ Cost of living crisis/ Image of food banks
Cost of living crisis

Record numbers of people are seeking help because they can't pay their energy bills

Number of rough sleepers in London rises by 10 per cent in just three months
rough sleeping
Rough sleeping

Number of rough sleepers in London rises by 10 per cent in just three months