The Big Issue

The Big Issue is a UK-based street paper that supports the homeless, the vulnerably housed asnd those seeking to escape poverty. Vendors normally buy the magazine for £1.25 and sell to the public for £2.50. We are using Zinio digital editions to create additonal revenue opportunities to fund our street-based and pastoral care services for our vendors. We are a social enterprise company and all revenues go to support the vulnerable communities we serve. Our goal is to move our vendors away from dependency and towards full time employment

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THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

BIG ISSUE 100 CHANGEMAKERS 2024 WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! • Changemakers is Big Issue’s annual celebration of the people, organisations and businesses who make life better for everyone. We celebrate those agitators, activists and non-stop grassroots campaigners who are in the vanguard of change

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • The NHS is in crisis, and time is not on its side

BIRD’S WORDS • The debris of history surrounds us. And yet we keep repeating it

LETTERS

THE INCREDIBLE LIFESAVING POWER OF PETS

EVICTED INTO HOMELESSNESS The shocking human emergency about to hit the UK • By Christmas, thousands of people granted asylum to legally remain in Britain could be on the streets. Our investigation reveals a government-made crisis for councils teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, with a fearsome human cost. Greg Barradale reports

THE NEW FACE OF VETERANS ON THE STREET • On the eve of Remembrance Sunday, veterans are at risk

People power is tackling the climate crisis at home • The race is on to fix the UK’s old, leaky homes. One couple have been going door-to-door to retrofit 1,400 houses in their small corner of Birmingham

BEAVERS IN EALING? A DAM FINE PLAN! • Thanks to charity Citizen Zoo’s collaborative rewilding project and the years-long efforts of a West London community, this family of five beavers is making history – the first of their kind released into the capital’s urban waterways for 400 years. Greg Barradale reports from the water’s edge

RICHARD HAWLEY • His teachers knew him as the music guy, and they were right: after Longpigs and Pulp, solo success heralded a new era

LINES By Dave Sohanpal

Books

Humans and fungi have a surprising shared history

Film

David Duchovny ‘I DARE YOU NOT TO BE MOVED BY PUFF, THE MAGIC DRAGON’

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

Music

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Theatre Royal, Plymouth 6.30-7.30pm and 9.30-9.45pm Tuesday-Saturday