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Community housing project offering affordable homes forever up for a prestigious architecture award
Housing

Community housing project offering affordable homes forever up for a prestigious architecture award

Citizens House in Lewisham was designed in collaboration with residents and partly funded through Big Issue Invest, Big Issue’s social investment arm. Now the homes have been nominated for RIBA’s Neave Brown Award for affordable housing

How fitness and defiance helped Sunderland bounce back from the riots: ‘They’re not going to beat us’
Community

How fitness and defiance helped Sunderland bounce back from the riots: ‘They’re not going to beat us’

Keep Active in Sunderland works with the community to improve fitness as a way of improving lives

How I secured funding to grow my social enterprise
Big Issue Invest

How I secured funding to grow my social enterprise

Struggling to secure finance for your social enterprise? Founder Tendai shares how Ruka scaled with values-aligned investment from Big Issue Invest – and why mission-driven capital matters

What Rachel Reeves can learn from Donald Trump
Paul McNamee

What Rachel Reeves can learn from Donald Trump

These pioneers are plugging the gaps in youth support – with help from Big Issue Invest
Big Issue Invest

These pioneers are plugging the gaps in youth support – with help from Big Issue Invest

Over 5,500 young lives transformed by Big Issue Invest’s £1.25 million investment in world’s first sports-based social outcomes partnership
Big Issue Invest

Over 5,500 young lives transformed by Big Issue Invest’s £1.25 million investment in world’s first sports-based social outcomes partnership

Nearly half of Brits would struggle to pay for basic necessities in a month of losing income unexpectedly, new Big Issue YouGov poll reveals
Big Issue Invest

Nearly half of Brits would struggle to pay for basic necessities in a month of losing income unexpectedly, new Big Issue YouGov poll reveals

What is social impact financing – and should your organisation consider it? 
Big Issue Invest

What is social impact financing – and should your organisation consider it? 

Over 5,500 young lives transformed by Big Issue Invest’s £1.25 million investment in world’s first sports-based social outcomes partnership
Big Issue Invest

Over 5,500 young lives transformed by Big Issue Invest’s £1.25 million investment in world’s first sports-based social outcomes partnership

Nearly half of Brits would struggle to pay for basic necessities in a month of losing income unexpectedly, new Big Issue YouGov poll reveals
Big Issue Invest

Nearly half of Brits would struggle to pay for basic necessities in a month of losing income unexpectedly, new Big Issue YouGov poll reveals

What is social impact financing – and should your organisation consider it? 
Big Issue Invest

What is social impact financing – and should your organisation consider it? 

Big Issue Invest £3m loan secures future for outstanding SEND College
Big Issue Invest

Big Issue Invest £3m loan secures future for outstanding SEND College

Breaking the cycle: Why health equality is key to ending poverty 
Big Issue Invest

Breaking the cycle: Why health equality is key to ending poverty 

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025: Learning and employment
Changemakers 2025

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025: Learning and employment

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025: Housing and homelessness
Changemakers 2025

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025: Housing and homelessness

Why mission-driven businesses should consider a property-backed loan from Big Issue Invest
Big Issue Invest

Why mission-driven businesses should consider a property-backed loan from Big Issue Invest

Last Christmas I was in prison. This year I’m working in a London fine-dining restaurant
Christmas

Last Christmas I was in prison. This year I’m working in a London fine-dining restaurant

Big Issue’s social investment arm reaching 1.8 million Brits through investees
Big Issue Invest

Big Issue’s social investment arm reaching 1.8 million Brits through investees

‘This is the dream’: These Londoners built their own homes to beat sky-high house prices
Housing

‘This is the dream’: These Londoners built their own homes to beat sky-high house prices

Brixton Village’s Black Farmer receives £250k investment from fund for underrepresented entrepreneurs
Big Issue Invest

Brixton Village’s Black Farmer receives £250k investment from fund for underrepresented entrepreneurs

The right and wrong reasons to borrow: A guide for social purpose organisations seeking funding
Big Issue Invest

The right and wrong reasons to borrow: A guide for social purpose organisations seeking funding

School pupils running social enterprises spotlighted by Big Issue
Big Issue Invest

School pupils running social enterprises spotlighted by Big Issue

Big Issue Community Roadshow arrives in Newcastle – with Womble in tow
Big Community

Big Issue Community Roadshow arrives in Newcastle – with Womble in tow

Get ready, Newcastle: the Big Issue Community Roadshow is coming to town
Big Community

Get ready, Newcastle: the Big Issue Community Roadshow is coming to town

These interest-free loans have a twist: Pay off on time and you might get money back
Loans

These interest-free loans have a twist: Pay off on time and you might get money back

Why social impact is needed in ESG
Big Issue Invest

Why social impact is needed in ESG

65,000 people facing systemic inequities supported by over £1.8mil of Growth Impact Fund investments
Big Issue Invest

65,000 people facing systemic inequities supported by over £1.8mil of Growth Impact Fund investments

I’ve been a refugee twice – seeing the response to racism makes me proud to be British
Danyal Sattar

I’ve been a refugee twice – seeing the response to racism makes me proud to be British

Impact investing and social impact investing: What’s the difference?
Big Issue Invest

Impact investing and social impact investing: What’s the difference?