Community

How the Big Grow is strengthening communities and building resilience through growing food
Food

How the Big Grow is strengthening communities and building resilience through growing food

Whatever the harvest, the Big Issue’s Big Grow project cultivates a sense of joy and community

KSI: ‘People do the wildest things to be relevant. But respect is the greatest thing you can have’
Community

KSI: ‘People do the wildest things to be relevant. But respect is the greatest thing you can have’

As the new co-owner of Dagenham & Redbridge FC, KSI reveals how his move into football is aiming to revitalise the local community in Barking and Dagenham

It’s easier than ever to connect with people from across the world. So why are we so lonely?
Opinion

It’s easier than ever to connect with people from across the world. So why are we so lonely?

It’s easier than ever to find and connect with people from across the world. And still, somehow, we are lonelier

I spent 60 hours sat in a bathtub in Leeds to show how my soap company can tackle addiction
Rehabilitation

I spent 60 hours sat in a bathtub in Leeds to show how my soap company can tackle addiction

Meet the people raising awareness of dementia in the South Asian community
Dementia

Meet the people raising awareness of dementia in the South Asian community

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Can transforming closed pubs into homes offer a solution to the housing crisis? 
Housing

Can transforming closed pubs into homes offer a solution to the housing crisis? 

‘Where do kids get their musical instruments from if mum and dad can’t afford it?’
Young people

‘Where do kids get their musical instruments from if mum and dad can’t afford it?’

How can we revitalise the high street?
Steven MacKenzie

How can we revitalise the high street?

Why Downing Street needs a new name if it is going to properly repair the fabric of society
John bird

Why Downing Street needs a new name if it is going to properly repair the fabric of society

Why do people live 14 years longer at one end of Leeds’ famous Otley Run pub crawl than the other?
Health inequality

Why do people live 14 years longer at one end of Leeds’ famous Otley Run pub crawl than the other?

The community group who took over a leisure centre to give everyone access to sport and fitness
Sport

The community group who took over a leisure centre to give everyone access to sport and fitness

‘Politics is the youth centre that keeps its doors open’
Dr Louisa Munch

‘Politics is the youth centre that keeps its doors open’

Leicester Riders: The basketball team taking on knife crime
Sport

Leicester Riders: The basketball team taking on knife crime

Airbnb kills communities. Is it time for a ban?
Short-term lets

Airbnb kills communities. Is it time for a ban?

I know from experience how hard it is to seek help with debt. I’m helping local people take the step
Debt

I know from experience how hard it is to seek help with debt. I’m helping local people take the step

Chucky spent eight years in and out of homelessness. Now he’s training to keep bees
Bees

Chucky spent eight years in and out of homelessness. Now he’s training to keep bees

What running with Tinie Tempah taught us about volunteering: ‘It’s important to give hope’
Music

What running with Tinie Tempah taught us about volunteering: ‘It’s important to give hope’

The story of the shantytown dwellers who grew their own wealth using vegetables
Earth Day

The story of the shantytown dwellers who grew their own wealth using vegetables

Yungblud’s Beautifully Romanticised Accidentally Traumatized is making one London street sing again
Denmark Street

Yungblud’s Beautifully Romanticised Accidentally Traumatized is making one London street sing again

Striking photos capture British Muslim families breaking fast during Ramadan in food bank Britain
Cost of living

Striking photos capture British Muslim families breaking fast during Ramadan in food bank Britain

I shrank my own economy to live a less capitalist life. You could do it too
Society

I shrank my own economy to live a less capitalist life. You could do it too

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I’m a mother of children with disabilities. My local support group gave me a chance to breathe
Michelle Keen

I’m a mother of children with disabilities. My local support group gave me a chance to breathe

I am a British citizen and have lived in the UK for 20 years. But as a refugee, I feel afraid here
Dine

I am a British citizen and have lived in the UK for 20 years. But as a refugee, I feel afraid here

This Lancaster Priory monument was a culture wars flashpoint. Then it became a force for good
Dr Chris Donaldson and Dr Sunita Abraham

This Lancaster Priory monument was a culture wars flashpoint. Then it became a force for good

No room at the inn for refugees? Many Brits are happy to welcome strangers in need
Dr Krish Kandiah

No room at the inn for refugees? Many Brits are happy to welcome strangers in need