Big Issue Archives

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Film

Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs and The Salt Path author Raynor Winn on homelessness and human spirit

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Kids Cover Competition

‘A bright and bold mosaic of creatures’: Meet the winner of Big Issue’s Kids Cover Competition 2025

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Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Ambassadors assemble

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Big Issue Ambassadors

Meet the new Big Issue ambassadors helping to end poverty once and for all: ‘We’re in a fight’

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B Corps

‘The world will be a better place!’: Why Big Issue became one of the original B Corps

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Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: No secrets to conceal

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John Bird

How painting helps me to get up in the morning and continue the fight

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2024

Dodgy landlords, DWP misery and our brilliant vendors: This is how Big Issue changed lives in 2024

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Christmas

Sanditon star Rose Williams helps Big Issue with Christmas deliveries: ‘A pleasure and a privilege’

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Dogs of Big Issue

A day in the life of Crumble the Big Issue dog – from vital outreach work to lots of pets and love

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Behind the scenes

How the Big Issue supports vendors through the winter

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Paul McNamee

How the Big Issue went from revolutionary act to an iconic part of Britain’s street

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Homelessness

1 in 5 Brits say they’ve sofa surfed amid record levels of homelessness heading into Christmas

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Big Issue Success

Big Issue recognised for ‘punchy, buccaneering swagger’ at prestigious journalism awards

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Our vendors

This Big Issue vendor is donating his earnings to charity for Remembrance Day: ‘Please buy a magazine’

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Big Debate

Waterloo Road star James Baxter to join the Big Issue’s Big Debate in Newcastle

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Our vendors

Big Issue vendors left feeling anxious, frightened and ‘scared to go out’ in wake of UK riots

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Press Release

“When I hear Rachel Reeves say, ‘there isn’t any money’… we’re not morons. There is money. Take it. Mint it.” Rob Delaney on finding perspective in politics

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