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Youth job grants: Will paying companies £3,000 to hire jobless youngsters fix youth unemployment?
Youth unemployment

Youth job grants: Will paying companies £3,000 to hire jobless youngsters fix youth unemployment?

The so-called ‘youth job grants’ will support around 60,000 young people into employment over the next three years

Mike Soutar: Employers are sitting on their hands when it comes to hiring. How can we change that?
Mike Soutar

Mike Soutar: Employers are sitting on their hands when it comes to hiring. How can we change that?

To make hiring worth the investment, recruitment needs a rethink. Big Issue Ambassador Mike Soutar explains how Big Issue Recruit offers a fresh solution

Yo-yo homes, 10Foot and autism assessments: This is how Big Issue made change in 2025
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Yo-yo homes, 10Foot and autism assessments: This is how Big Issue made change in 2025

We take a look back at how Big Issue changed lives in 2025

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

Big Issue Recruit to help jobseekers in South Wales secure green jobs on onshore wind farm
Big Issue Recruit

Big Issue Recruit to help jobseekers in South Wales secure green jobs on onshore wind farm

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Big Issue partners with Bute Energy to help jobseekers facing employment barriers find work in Welsh renewables
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Big Issue partners with Bute Energy to help jobseekers facing employment barriers find work in Welsh renewables

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

Helô! Come and see us at our Big Community Roadshow in Cardiff
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Helô! Come and see us at our Big Community Roadshow in Cardiff

Wardens get to work tidying e-scooters in Nottingham – with help from Big Issue Recruit
Big Issue Recruit

Wardens get to work tidying e-scooters in Nottingham – with help from Big Issue Recruit

Big Issue’s recruitment service for people facing barriers to work reports 13% growth in 2024-25
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Big Issue’s recruitment service for people facing barriers to work reports 13% growth in 2024-25

How Big Issue Recruit builds on a three-decade legacy of removing barriers to work
Big Issue Recruit

How Big Issue Recruit builds on a three-decade legacy of removing barriers to work

Starmer’s intention for work and benefits should be applauded – but it must come with good jobs
Paul McNamee

Starmer’s intention for work and benefits should be applauded – but it must come with good jobs

Labour has declared ‘war on benefits’. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing
Catherine Parsons

Labour has declared ‘war on benefits’. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing

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

Suffering a brain injury forced me out of work and onto benefits – it’s a lonely thing to go through
Health

Suffering a brain injury forced me out of work and onto benefits – it’s a lonely thing to go through

Emilia Clarke: ‘Hospitals will fix your brain, but the recovery process will save you’
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Emilia Clarke: ‘Hospitals will fix your brain, but the recovery process will save you’

Emilia Clarke’s charity SameYou partners with Big Issue to help brain injury survivors return to work
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Emilia Clarke’s charity SameYou partners with Big Issue to help brain injury survivors return to work

Emilia Clarke feared being fired from Game of Thrones after brain injury
Emilia Clarke

Emilia Clarke feared being fired from Game of Thrones after brain injury

Sunak and the DWP are trying to push people back to work. We think there’s a better way
Katy Wright

Sunak and the DWP are trying to push people back to work. We think there’s a better way

Big Issue Group supporting 10% more people to earn and work as UK poverty crisis deepens
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Big Issue Group supporting 10% more people to earn and work as UK poverty crisis deepens

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Big Issue Group responds to Rishi Sunak’s proposed welfare reforms
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Big Issue Group responds to Rishi Sunak’s proposed welfare reforms

Here’s how Big Issue has helped thousands work their way out of poverty
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Here’s how Big Issue has helped thousands work their way out of poverty

UK government must do more to help people back into jobs. But what’s the best way forward?
Katy Wright

UK government must do more to help people back into jobs. But what’s the best way forward?

How Big Issue Recruit helped more than 100 marginalised people overcome barriers to work
Big Issue Recruit

How Big Issue Recruit helped more than 100 marginalised people overcome barriers to work