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

Marathon man • Christopher Eccleston tells us why he is celebrating turning 60 by running the London Marathon on 21 April to raise money for Big Issue – and you can help him on his way

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • In the green transition, Sunak’s on the back foot

BIRD’S WORDS • A lifetime of playing the imitation game has reaped rewards

LETTERS

Amy’s Place: ‘It’s beautiful that this exists’

‘Getting kids out of gangs is one thing. Keeping them out is the toughest part’ • Film and TV star Eddie Marsan and charity founder Darren Way walk us around Tower Hamlets to counter the idea that this is a no-go area, and talk us through Streets of Growth’s work tackling gang and knife crime

Remembering a fearless photojournalist and friend

LABI SIFFRE • He stayed true to the manifesto he wrote when he was 14, but the singer also found the real substance in his life must be love

ART ON A POSTCARD X WAR CHILD AUCTION

Books

‘ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS IN LIFE YOU NEVER FORGET’ • As season 2 of Blue Lights comes to air, screenwriter Declan Lawn recalls the nailbiting night he and his co-creator Adam Patterson knew they had a smash hit on their hands

Mena Massoud ‘CONFIDENCE IS BETTING ON YOURSELF’

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

Music

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Waitrose, Marlborough Saturday-Monday 8.30am-5pm