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

Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • Dismissing humanities will cost us

BIRD’S WORDS • We can’t see what’s important when we’re drowning in toxic sludge

LETTERS

The BIG ISSUE BULLETIN • What we’ve done, what we’re doing

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

GOVE’S PLANS FOR CHANGE

RENTERS REFORM BILL RUNDOWN

‘AUSTERITY WAS CLASS WAR. I WANT TO HIT BACK’

VOICE OF A GENERATION

CLASS ACT

THE LYNCH MOB

JOHN MCENROE • The tennis legend says we cannot be serious if we judge him by his brash behaviour on court – he’s actually pretty shy

STREET ART • RIVER WALK

Books

Books that celebrate multicultural London

Our marvellous singing planet in the age of loss

Film

‘I’M SAYING YES TO WHAT LIFE OFFERS ME’

LUCY SWEET IS ON THE VERGE

Music

Health

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Co-op, Moseley, Birmingham Wednesday-Saturday 10am-7pm