As a message, it bears repeating. Always take the magazine.
It is absolutely core to The Big Issue. And messages are passed from source through a thousand different social tributaries. Always take the magazine.
Last week we launched a new campaign with this message. A film, fronted by gentleman and comedian Seann Walsh, set about busting myths around The Big Issue, reaffirming why we’re here and building to the same conclusion – always take the magazine.
The Big Issue was established just shy of 25 years ago – and you’re going to be hearing about THAT landmark very soon.
The model was simple; they’d buy The Big Issue for half the cover price and sell for the cover price. Their earnings were the gap in between
John Bird and Gordon Roddick wanted to create a device that allowed the homeless, the poorest, the dispossessed – all of those people lost in the shadows that society ignored – to earn their own living. To work their way back into society. The model was simple; they’d buy The Big Issue for half the cover price and sell for the cover price. Their earnings were the gap in between. It was a social revolution.
Earlier this year we marked our 200 millionth sale in Britain. That means tens of thousands of people took the bold step to look up and say, enough, I’m going to take back control. They earned millions. They made themselves individual businesses – a street army of entrepreneurs.