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

Zoo’s counting

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The Big Issue UK

EDITOR’S LETTER • Loonies tune in to the big issues

The wild men of Labour have much to teach the politicians of today

LETTERS

This is the year of Jodie Comer

A kitchen kit car boot sale – BUT EVERYTHING IS FREE • The food poverty crisis goes beyond the food itself – kitchen equipment is another expense that’s beyond the means of many. Cracking Good Food is an organisation distributing preowned kit to those in need. Their recent Manchester event found new homes for 1.5 tonnes of vital equipment

‘There is a sense that people are just at the end of their tether. Activism is contagious’

Giving residents a say is key to the future of designing communities

How living funerals can help us confront a universal truth

Money matters and bereavement: a helpful guide

HENRY WINKLER • He overcame crippling fear to define cool as the Fonz. And since hanging up the leather jacket the happy days remain

ONE ROOF FESTIVAL LOGO

Facing up to a shadowy past

Why we champion writers on the outside

A fantastical discovery of mind, body and world

Lindsay Duncan and Clarke Peters ‘WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS COUNTRY IS SHAMEFUL – THERE IS SERIOUS NEGLECT’

LUCY SWEET IS ON THE VERGE

An elegy for a pioneering artist

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Royal Arcade, Cardiff Every day 10am-5pm