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FoodCycle: The community meal where refugees, ex-prisoners and old friends break bread together
Cost of living crisis

FoodCycle: The community meal where refugees, ex-prisoners and old friends break bread together

I’ve been homeless in this city. Now I’m helping tourists discover its hidden secrets
Homelessness

I’ve been homeless in this city. Now I’m helping tourists discover its hidden secrets

Folk music venue fights for survival after ‘unfair’ £99k bill from billionaire landlords
Venue Watch

Folk music venue fights for survival after ‘unfair’ £99k bill from billionaire landlords

‘Poverty is killing children’: How homeless families are fighting to survive this Christmas
Cost of living crisis

‘Poverty is killing children’: How homeless families are fighting to survive this Christmas

Incredible story of how a Big Issue vendor found himself at heart of Occupy protests
Our vendors

Incredible story of how a Big Issue vendor found himself at heart of Occupy protests

Refugee wonders if it would be better to ‘stay in Yemen and die’ than go through UK asylum system
Refugee Homelessness Crisis

Refugee wonders if it would be better to ‘stay in Yemen and die’ than go through UK asylum system

‘I urinated myself in the opticians’: UK’s public toilet crisis makes disabled people feel like ‘prisoners’
Public toilets

‘I urinated myself in the opticians’: UK’s public toilet crisis makes disabled people feel like ‘prisoners’

Shock £300k bill from bankrupt council threatens Woking’s only grassroots music venue
Venue Watch

Shock £300k bill from bankrupt council threatens Woking’s only grassroots music venue

Ex-hostage Sir Terry Waite on Hamas victims and how captivity shaped his empathy for homeless people
Exclusive

Ex-hostage Sir Terry Waite on Hamas victims and how captivity shaped his empathy for homeless people

Building careers from U2 to Self Esteem, The Horn is a haven for ‘people a little bit outside normal’
Venue Watch

Building careers from U2 to Self Esteem, The Horn is a haven for ‘people a little bit outside normal’

Food bank says people are turning to sex work and taking out dangerous loans due to cost of living
Cost of living crisis

Food bank says people are turning to sex work and taking out dangerous loans due to cost of living

Neighbours band together to tackle energy bills and show how climate action starts at home
Climate crisis

Neighbours band together to tackle energy bills and show how climate action starts at home

Disabled nurse ‘feels guilty being alive’ as her family struggles with devastating cost of living
Cost of living crisis

Disabled nurse ‘feels guilty being alive’ as her family struggles with devastating cost of living

‘Fireworks sound like war’: Ex-RAF member with PTSD warns of bonfire night’s impact on veterans
Veterans

‘Fireworks sound like war’: Ex-RAF member with PTSD warns of bonfire night’s impact on veterans

Cost of living: Man says he eats less and feels like a ‘failure’ due to benefits not covering essentials
Cost of living crisis

Cost of living: Man says he eats less and feels like a ‘failure’ due to benefits not covering essentials

Young woman says she ‘unravelled’ when cost of living meant she couldn’t keep herself clean
Cost of living crisis

Young woman says she ‘unravelled’ when cost of living meant she couldn’t keep herself clean

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Adoptees share the ‘extreme emotional challenge’ of meeting birth parents decades after adoption
Adoption

Adoptees share the ‘extreme emotional challenge’ of meeting birth parents decades after adoption

Young woman estranged from family recalls fight for survival amid cost of living crisis: ‘I was scared’
Cost of living crisis

Young woman estranged from family recalls fight for survival amid cost of living crisis: ‘I was scared’

Woman became homeless after fleeing domestic abuse. Nobody helped when she slept on streets
Domestic abuse

Woman became homeless after fleeing domestic abuse. Nobody helped when she slept on streets

Women who are sleeping rough are often hidden. It’s a much bigger problem than anyone thinks
Homelessness

Women who are sleeping rough are often hidden. It’s a much bigger problem than anyone thinks