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Grassroots venue Off the Cuff is home to UK’s biggest youth open mic – and it needs your help
Grassroots venue Off the Cuff is home to UK’s biggest youth open mic – and it needs your help
Every week, The Big Issue’s Venue Watch campaign supports and champions grassroots music venues across the UK. This week we’re in London with one of the Big Issue’s Changemakers 2024. More than a thousand young people have taken their first steps on a professional stage at grassroots venue Off the Cuff. They’re fighting for its survival
Big Issue’s Venue Watch helps save Woking’s only grassroots music venue: ‘It’s a big win’
Big Issue’s Venue Watch helps save Woking’s only grassroots music venue: ‘It’s a big win’
Phoenix Cultural Centre’s £420,000 rates bill was overturned after Big Issue’s Venue Watch campaign got behind the grassroots music venue. But they’re ‘not out of the woods yet’
Tens of thousand sign petition against DWP plan to snoop on benefit claimants’ bank accounts
Tens of thousand sign petition against DWP plan to snoop on benefit claimants’ bank accounts
Big Brother Watch has launched a petition calling on the government to stop pushing forward with a bill giving the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) powers to spy on bank accounts
The Big Issue Changemakers of 2024: Media and campaigns
The Big Issue Changemakers of 2024: Media and campaigns
Women feel ‘violated and traumatised’ by painful hysteroscopies – and say the NHS misinformed them
Women feel ‘violated and traumatised’ by painful hysteroscopies – and say the NHS misinformed them
Everything you need to know about UK’s shameful Post Office scandal
Everything you need to know about UK’s shameful Post Office scandal
Atherton ‘had everything taken away’. The Snug brought back music and community
Atherton ‘had everything taken away’. The Snug brought back music and community
Rapper and TV chef Big Zuu: ‘The more people give back, the better the world we’ll see’
Rapper and TV chef Big Zuu: ‘The more people give back, the better the world we’ll see’
‘He begged mummy to take him home’: Autistic man ‘abused’ while being kept in mental hospital for six years
‘He begged mummy to take him home’: Autistic man ‘abused’ while being kept in mental hospital for six years
John Chadwick took his own life when he was separated from his pets. His friend is campaigning for change
John Chadwick took his own life when he was separated from his pets. His friend is campaigning for change
11 award winners share their campaign tips for achieving change
11 award winners share their campaign tips for achieving change
28 inspiring campaigns and campaigners to make you believe change can be won in 2023
28 inspiring campaigns and campaigners to make you believe change can be won in 2023
Maxine Peake on Hillsborough drama Anne: ‘The criminal justice system can be a very hostile place’
