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