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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Energy companies tried to scrap rules requiring them to support struggling customers

THE TOP 5 STORIES ON BIGISSUE.COM  LAST WEEK

As the cost of living continues to spike, experts argue a basic income could cut poverty to its lowest point in 45 years

Priti Patel wants you to have your say on her new anti-protest Public Order Bill

As if rents weren’t high enough, now prospective renters are being clobbered with ludicrous demands from estate agents just to get into properties

WINDRUSH SCANDAL

The last word on Sue Gray’s report? The Big Issue cleans up

Downing Street says au revoir to Tracey Emin artwork

HOW YOUR BIG SHOP HAS BECOME MORE EXPENSIVE IN JUST 12 MONTHS

Your handy timetable to keep up with the summer of discontent

Why I sleep rough in Davos every year

FENDER FUNDRAISER

The Church of England has a new plan to ‘turn the tide of the housing crisis’

Coventry Cathedral is the symbol of healing we could all use right now

The Big Issue

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FAIL THE PAUPER IDOL AUDITIONS • Daniel is an investigative journalist with experience of homelessness. He says the hoops people have to jump through to get housed are unfair and inhumane

LETTERS

The BIG ISSUE BULLETIN What we’ve done, what we’re doing • Big Issue supporters invited to join virtual sleepout from wherever you are to support Big Issue vendors

VENDORS • Tribute for Big Issue vendor, 13 years after ‘mindless and chillingly casual’ killing

GLOBAL ROUNDUP • Street papers and positive thinkers making a difference around the world

THE LITTLE HOUSE THAT MADE A BIG IMPRESSION • A housing crisis has the UK in its grip. As council house waiting lists soar, hostels fill up and landlords count the zeros, things are getting desperate for people in need of a roof over their head. When pictures emerged of a small, peculiar house positioned on the pavement of a busy London street, curiosity was piqued. Where did the house come from? Who was living in it? And why? We went to find the answers – and it turned into the most-read story on bigissue.com ever

DEMOLITION IS THE WASTEFUL HABIT WE HAVE TO BREAK • For decades, tearing down and “regenerating” council estates has been the norm – but with the climate and housing market in crisis, campaigners are questioning the costs for people and the planet

THE FIRE STILL BURNS • Writer James Graham, along with stars Lesley Manville and David Morrissey discuss how their new BBC drama looks at the enduring impact of the miners’ strike and lifts the lid on the ‘spy cops’ scandal

ALISON HAMMOND • The TV star has written a book after taking inspiration from Black history, but it’s her mum who’s her biggest hero

CULTURE • MAKE SPACE FOR HOMELESS QUEERS

How a book about yoga became a meditation on grief

Books about boybands

Seventy years of rule in good faith

‘It does kind of show that power corrupts everyone’ • Borgen is back. In the nine years since we last saw Sidse Babett Knudsen as Danish politician Birgitte Nyborg, the political world has changed dramatically. The series aired on BBC Four in the UK – becoming the most popular of the...