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 International • There are almost 100 street papers like The Big Issue across six continents. From Hollywood movies to lonely hearts, here are some of their moving stories of 2023

Big Issue vendors are valued members of their communities. Their loss is felt not only by the Big Issue family but by the customers and friends they’ve made along the way. Here we remember those who died this year

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • Time to start up this stuttering century

BIRD’S WORDS • It’s hard to clear the debris of our history

LETTERS

More people look to this man for political updates than to Newsnight • Tom Walker, the man behind ranting and raging news reporter Jonathan Pie, gives us his predictions on how a big year for politics will play out

The government’s cruel Rwanda plan has thrown me back to square one. And looking into 2024 I’m again facing a very uncertain future

Tired of the nine-to-five? Try carving clogs

The key to new year’s resolutions that work? Small steps, every day. How annoying

Will the cost of living crisis make you go vegan?

VASE AND ROSES

Poltergeists, baboons, imaginary friends… and a certain Peruvian bear. It’s 2024 in films

HERE’S YOUR ESSENTIAL HOLIDAY TV BINGE-WATCHES

Iwan Rheon ‘WE CAN BE VERY STUPID SOMETIMES. AND I DON’T THINK IT’S NECESSARILY OUR FAULT’

The cost of cutting local radio services

The fight goes on to save grassroots gig venues

IT’S THE BIG ISSUE BRAINTEASER! • Were you paying attention to the events of last year? Test your recall with our quiz of 2023

Puzzles

MY PITCH INTERNATIONAL