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Free Eye Tests and Homemade Muffins: What Happened When Specsavers Opened Its Doors After Hours
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Free Eye Tests and Homemade Muffins: What Happened When Specsavers Opened Its Doors After Hours

How electric vehicles are changing lives on Big Issue’s front line
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How electric vehicles are changing lives on Big Issue’s front line

Letters: AI can’t replace the human ability to interpret, judge or care
Letters

Letters: AI can’t replace the human ability to interpret, judge or care

DWP payment dates in November 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month
Benefits

DWP payment dates in November 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month

How Fair for You’s Shopping Card Loan is helping people face down debt 
Debt

How Fair for You’s Shopping Card Loan is helping people face down debt 

Letters: I’d be happy to pay a bit more tax if it fixed the country
Letters

Letters: I’d be happy to pay a bit more tax if it fixed the country

I can never walk past a church without going in. All the complexities of human life are inside
Books

I can never walk past a church without going in. All the complexities of human life are inside

Foraging has helped make Finland the world’s happiest country. What can we learn from the forest?
Food

Foraging has helped make Finland the world’s happiest country. What can we learn from the forest?

Britain’s mental health crisis is a leadership crisis, too
Ashley Mills

Britain’s mental health crisis is a leadership crisis, too

Free phones are helping 400 people find work after homelessness and unemployment
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Free phones are helping 400 people find work after homelessness and unemployment

Letters: The system creating poverty must be eradicated. That system is capitalism
Letters

Letters: The system creating poverty must be eradicated. That system is capitalism

Number of deaths from nitazenes increases fourfold in two years – but true number may never be known
Drug deaths

Number of deaths from nitazenes increases fourfold in two years – but true number may never be known

People with learning disabilities are dying 20 years early, report finds: ‘They deserve better’
Learning disabilities

People with learning disabilities are dying 20 years early, report finds: ‘They deserve better’

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

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

People with mental health issues forced to share their PIN – leaving them open to ‘abuse and fraud’
Financial inclusion

People with mental health issues forced to share their PIN – leaving them open to ‘abuse and fraud’

The power of refurbished tech
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The power of refurbished tech

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‘Are you really the doctor?’: The realities of life as a Black doctor in the NHS
Health

‘Are you really the doctor?’: The realities of life as a Black doctor in the NHS

Everything you need to know about how to apply for universal credit
Universal credit

Everything you need to know about how to apply for universal credit

‘It’s never been more urgent’: Inside the garden project empowering communities to grow their own food
Food

‘It’s never been more urgent’: Inside the garden project empowering communities to grow their own food

What do bankers think of a windfall tax on the banks? We went to the City of London to find out
Bank tax

What do bankers think of a windfall tax on the banks? We went to the City of London to find out