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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Rwanda refugee program dubbed ‘another Windrush’

THE TOP 5 STORIES ON BIGISSUE.COM  LAST WEEK

Social landlords could face unlimited fines and ‘Ofsted-style’ inspections under new Social Housing Bill

Prison performs U-turn on banning handwritten cards for inmates after public outcry

LAST CHANCE TO SEE

Could Eddie Hughes be the minister to end street homelessness? • Four things we learned when we sat down with the Minister for Rough Sleeping

GLASTONBURY

A library almost 300 miles from the UK mainland was the busiest in Scotland and second busiest in the UK

National food strategy won’t expand free school meals to 1.1 million children

Europe is seeing an incredible increase in wild mammal numbers

QUEER HOMELESSNESS TACKLED THROUGH NEW PORTRAIT SERIES

EDITOR’S LETTER • To solve our food crisis, we may need AI

THEE BIG ISSUE

My lifetime of run-ins with the Royal Family

THIS WEEK JOHN WILL BE

LETTERS

Almost 1,000 refugees to benefit from Big Issue investment, helping them into jobs, housing and self-sufficiency

The Bard meets tabard in open-air Shakespeare with a Big Issue twist

REFUGEE WEEK • How street papers are offering a hand up to refugees across the world

WHY I WANTED TO WORK WITH THE BIG ISSUE

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN PRINCE WILLIAM SOLD THE BIG ISSUE

SQUEEZE ON INCOMES

GLOBAL COVERAGE

‘WE DON’T GET A GREAT START IN LIFE WHEN WE TURN 18 AND LEAVE CARE’ • The system isn’t set up to provide the essential support that care experienced people need – so they’ve decided to come up with the policy reforms urgently required themselves

THE GROUP’S RECOMMENDATIONS IN FULL

DAME MARGARET BECKETT • She paved the way for women in politics, but it’s her work on the minimum wage that everyone tries to take credit for

CULTURE

Masochism and despair in the village of the damned

Funny books for kids

Being deaf is no tragedy – it’s one of my greatest strengths

Reframing the story of Peter Pan

‘I’M WARY OF BEING INVOLVED IN THE SOAP OPERA OF POLITICS’

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME (off on holiday)

Music

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