Community activism
Big Issue’s 100 Changemakers of 2026: Food and nutrition
Big Issue’s 100 Changemakers of 2026: Food and nutrition
Meet our 2026 Changemakers. Here Big Issue celebrates the community champions who are ensuring everyone gets something to eat in these trying times
Big Issue’s 100 Changemakers of 2026: Communities and equality
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
Sowing seeds of change: How Big Issue’s Big Grow is cultivating community and resilience
Sowing seeds of change: How Big Issue’s Big Grow is cultivating community and resilience
What would meaningful nature inclusion look like for our vendors? And could it also help tackle loneliness, food insecurity and the rising cost of living?
Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2026: Nominate a group or person making the world a better place
Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2026: Nominate a group or person making the world a better place
Inside the mission to make Cumbria the first anti-racist county in the UK
Inside the mission to make Cumbria the first anti-racist county in the UK
Cranhill Arts Project: Meet the Glasgow community group that painted itself a better future
Cranhill Arts Project: Meet the Glasgow community group that painted itself a better future
From solarpunk to the metaverse: The way we think about the future needs to change
From solarpunk to the metaverse: The way we think about the future needs to change
How Arsenal is empowering young disabled people through football: ‘It’s one of the best things you can do’
How Arsenal is empowering young disabled people through football: ‘It’s one of the best things you can do’
How residents in Chatham are pulling their decaying high street out of a crisis
How residents in Chatham are pulling their decaying high street out of a crisis
Big Issue’s new Big Grow initiative set to transform communities through urban gardening
Big Issue’s new Big Grow initiative set to transform communities through urban gardening
‘They united the public in opposition to hatred’: What have we learned six months on from UK riots?
‘They united the public in opposition to hatred’: What have we learned six months on from UK riots?
‘This is definitely a pinch-me moment’: Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025 react to being honoured
‘This is definitely a pinch-me moment’: Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025 react to being honoured
Too many babies don’t have a safe place to sleep. This baby bank is trying to change that
Too many babies don’t have a safe place to sleep. This baby bank is trying to change that
Becoming a Community Payback supervisor changed my life – and helped countless others
Becoming a Community Payback supervisor changed my life – and helped countless others
Protest isn’t a dirty word – but successive governments have tried to convince us otherwise
Protest isn’t a dirty word – but successive governments have tried to convince us otherwise
‘It can’t stay like this’: Meet the North East families fighting child poverty by themselves
‘It can’t stay like this’: Meet the North East families fighting child poverty by themselves
We run free football sessions for kids – but the impact of our work goes well beyond the pitch
We run free football sessions for kids – but the impact of our work goes well beyond the pitch
‘Turning trauma into triumph’: This is the truth about growing up Black in the care system
‘Turning trauma into triumph’: This is the truth about growing up Black in the care system
UK can learn valuable lessons from how this Leeds suburb came together after riots
UK can learn valuable lessons from how this Leeds suburb came together after riots
The remarkable ways a Yorkshire children’s charity is fighting hidden poverty and rural destitution
The remarkable ways a Yorkshire children’s charity is fighting hidden poverty and rural destitution
‘We are heartbroken’: Hull group loses hip-hop bus which fights poverty and changes lives
‘We are heartbroken’: Hull group loses hip-hop bus which fights poverty and changes lives
How baby banks are fighting child poverty and empowering mums in the cost of living crisis
How baby banks are fighting child poverty and empowering mums in the cost of living crisis
Beats Bus: How a Hull group is using hip-hop to fight poverty and protect young people from gangs
Beats Bus: How a Hull group is using hip-hop to fight poverty and protect young people from gangs
Carib Eats: Meet the grassroots group helping the needy with Caribbean food and community
Carib Eats: Meet the grassroots group helping the needy with Caribbean food and community
FoodCycle: The community meal where refugees, ex-prisoners and old friends break bread together
