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Inside the Big Issue: Don’t have nightmares
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Don’t have nightmares

It’s Halloween this week. In our new magazine, we talk all things fear – from horror homes to political bogeymen

Substance abuse led me to homelessness. Now I’m 20 years sober and in love with giving back
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Substance abuse led me to homelessness. Now I’m 20 years sober and in love with giving back

Peter Merrifield explains what drove him to set up his social enterprise, and how his own story of survival informs the help he’s giving to others like
him – with support from Big Issue Invest

Inside the Big Issue: Be more Finland
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Be more Finland

Finland is the World Happiness Report’s happiest nation and the best nation in the world at tackling homelessness. What can we learn?

Happy birthday, Big Issue Invest: 20 people look back on 20 years of social investment
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Happy birthday, Big Issue Invest: 20 people look back on 20 years of social investment

How a grassroots effort to save an abandoned leisure centre grew into something much more
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How a grassroots effort to save an abandoned leisure centre grew into something much more

Inside the Big Issue: Thatcher at 100
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Thatcher at 100

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations
Big Issue Invest

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations

New way for Big Issue vendors to take cashless payments up for prestigious award
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New way for Big Issue vendors to take cashless payments up for prestigious award

Inside the Big Issue: Thatcher at 100
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Thatcher at 100

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations
Big Issue Invest

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations

New way for Big Issue vendors to take cashless payments up for prestigious award
Our vendors

New way for Big Issue vendors to take cashless payments up for prestigious award

Inside the Big Issue: Cillian Murphy fights the system
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Cillian Murphy fights the system

Big Issue vendor Alfie Brew bounces back after being hit by a car
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Big Issue vendor Alfie Brew bounces back after being hit by a car

Big Issue Impact Advisory appoints Sasha Afanasieva as new MD
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Big Issue Impact Advisory appoints Sasha Afanasieva as new MD

Big Issue and Lenovo partner to support digital access for UK social enterprises
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Big Issue and Lenovo partner to support digital access for UK social enterprises

Inside the Big Issue: Who do you trust?
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Who do you trust?

Inside the Big Issue: Opake’s outsider takeover
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Inside the Big Issue: Opake’s outsider takeover

Inside the Big Issue: Spinal Tap vs HUNTR/X
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Spinal Tap vs HUNTR/X

Inside the Big Issue: Hacker T Dog and the chaotic rebirth of kids’ TV
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Hacker T Dog and the chaotic rebirth of kids’ TV

Big Issue Invest names Holger Westphely as new Managing Director
Big Issue Invest

Big Issue Invest names Holger Westphely as new Managing Director

Inside the Big Issue: Superstar DJ James Hype
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Superstar DJ James Hype

Inside the Big Issue: Daniel Mays takes us behind The Thursday Murder Club
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Daniel Mays takes us behind The Thursday Murder Club

Inside the Big Issue: Think pig
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Think pig

Inside the Big Issue: Can we find this man a proper place to live?
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Can we find this man a proper place to live?

How I secured funding to grow my social enterprise
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How I secured funding to grow my social enterprise

Inside the Big Issue: The UK riots, one year on
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: The UK riots, one year on

Inside the Big Issue: Superheroes vs the culture wars
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Superheroes vs the culture wars

PIP lifeline helps Bristol Big Issue vendor reach cancer treatment
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PIP lifeline helps Bristol Big Issue vendor reach cancer treatment

Inside the Big Issue: The shape of protest in 2025
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Inside the Big Issue: The shape of protest in 2025