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Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2026: Housing and homelessness
Changemakers 2026

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2026: Housing and homelessness

The people and organisations making life better for those on the margins

Big Issue’s 100 Changemakers of 2026: Communities and equality
Changemakers 2026

Big Issue’s 100 Changemakers of 2026: Communities and equality

Meet our 2026 Changemakers. Here Big Issue celebrate community groups working at grassroots level to make sure everyone feels seen, supported and welcome

Big Issue’s 100 Changemakers of 2026: Culture and sport
Changemakers 2026

Big Issue’s 100 Changemakers of 2026: Culture and sport

Meet our 2026 Changemakers. Here Big Issue celebrates the boxing gyms, art therapy groups, record labels and football clubs who are making a difference

Big Issue’s 100 Changemakers of 2026: Food and nutrition
Changemakers 2026

Big Issue’s 100 Changemakers of 2026: Food and nutrition

Big Issue’s 100 Changemakers of 2026: Politics and Activism
Changemakers 2026

Big Issue’s 100 Changemakers of 2026: Politics and Activism

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Introducing the Big Issue 100 Changemakers of 2026
Changemakers 2026

Introducing the Big Issue 100 Changemakers of 2026

Drifting North by Dominic Hinde review – intimately moving and expansive
Books

Drifting North by Dominic Hinde review – intimately moving and expansive

How the UK’s only cash-first food bank is shattering myths around aid: ‘Cash is the issue’
Food banks

How the UK’s only cash-first food bank is shattering myths around aid: ‘Cash is the issue’

Have you noticed a wrongdoing at work? I blew the whistle on the NHS. Here’s how to speak up
Bernie Rochford

Have you noticed a wrongdoing at work? I blew the whistle on the NHS. Here’s how to speak up

To avoid climate catastrophe we must reimagine our relationship with nature – and with each other
Cameron Saul

To avoid climate catastrophe we must reimagine our relationship with nature – and with each other

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2026: Nominate a group or person making the world a better place
Changemakers

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2026: Nominate a group or person making the world a better place

What we can learn about the joy of community from the 17th century Digger movement
Theatre

What we can learn about the joy of community from the 17th century Digger movement

Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie: ‘It was hard to get artists to take part in Gig for Gaza’
Music

Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie: ‘It was hard to get artists to take part in Gig for Gaza’

Inside the mission to make Cumbria the first anti-racist county in the UK
Racism

Inside the mission to make Cumbria the first anti-racist county in the UK

Black History Month is even more important in frightening times of racist violence
Dahaba Ali Hussen

Black History Month is even more important in frightening times of racist violence

We stand against the far-right and the super-rich to stop Britain becoming Elon Musk’s playground
Izzie McIntosh

We stand against the far-right and the super-rich to stop Britain becoming Elon Musk’s playground

Kneecap rapper Mo Chara’s ‘terrorism’ charge: Is it about free speech, Palestine or something more?
Kneecap

Kneecap rapper Mo Chara’s ‘terrorism’ charge: Is it about free speech, Palestine or something more?

Refugees living in the UK are terrified. Please stand with us in solidarity
Memory

Refugees living in the UK are terrified. Please stand with us in solidarity

The invaluable lessons Britain must learn from the Hong Kong’s 2019 pro-democracy protests
Mimi Martin

The invaluable lessons Britain must learn from the Hong Kong’s 2019 pro-democracy protests

When the world seems polarised, volunteering has a way of unifying people and rebuilding hope
Volunteering

When the world seems polarised, volunteering has a way of unifying people and rebuilding hope

I spent a year undercover as a far-right activist. Here’s seven things I learned
Far right

I spent a year undercover as a far-right activist. Here’s seven things I learned

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From anti-war to Palestine Action: The way we protest is changing – so how did we get here?
Benjamin Abrams

From anti-war to Palestine Action: The way we protest is changing – so how did we get here?

Disability rights activists are too often erased from history. I’m on a mission to change that
Rachel Charlton-Dailey

Disability rights activists are too often erased from history. I’m on a mission to change that

Renowned photographer Misan Harriman on Black Lives Matter, Gaza and finding hope in protest
Protest

Renowned photographer Misan Harriman on Black Lives Matter, Gaza and finding hope in protest

Meet the furious Gen Z protesters who want the super-rich to pay their fair share: ‘We have a voice’
Protest

Meet the furious Gen Z protesters who want the super-rich to pay their fair share: ‘We have a voice’