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

The race to save the planet

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER

BIRD’S WORDS

LETTERS

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

GLOBAL HEAT ROUNDUP • How cities around the world are adapting to cope with heatwaves

HOW NEIGHBOURS CHANGED THE FACE OF TELEVISION • As the Aussie soap airs for the last time, TV Editor Adrian Lobb looks back at a show that drew us into an exotic world of eternal sunshine

SOAPS ON THE ROPES

‘MUSIC TRANSPORTED ME INTO THIS OTHER WORLD OF POSSIBILITY’

ANITA RANI • Her teenage years were tricky, but she found her own path and wrote a book that gave a voice to British Asian women

I LIVE INSIDE PAINT

Books

Film

Ardal O’Hanlon ‘YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO BE SQUEAMISH AS A WRITER’

Music

Science

Puzzles

MY PITCH • M&S, Muswell Hill, Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm Parliament Hill Farmers’ Market, Sat, 10am-2pm