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Benefits system is ‘utterly failing’ as food bank demand reaches record high: ‘It’s heartbreaking’
Food banks

Benefits system is ‘utterly failing’ as food bank demand reaches record high: ‘It’s heartbreaking’

‘We’re at breaking point’: Food banks see record number of first-time users as demand soars
Food banks

‘We’re at breaking point’: Food banks see record number of first-time users as demand soars

Liz Carr: ‘I was told all the time I wouldn’t live to be old – and I believed it’
Letter To My Younger Self

Liz Carr: ‘I was told all the time I wouldn’t live to be old – and I believed it’

“I knew I was miserable but to say I’d rather be dead? It hurts me that my younger self didn’t see a future.” Actor Liz Carr’s lightbulb moment that changed her life
Press Release

“I knew I was miserable but to say I’d rather be dead? It hurts me that my younger self didn’t see a future.” Actor Liz Carr’s lightbulb moment that changed her life

Free school meals: Who is eligible? And how do you apply? Here’s all you need to know
Free school meals

Free school meals: Who is eligible? And how do you apply? Here’s all you need to know

Moving our bodies is good for our mental health, so what’s stopping us?
Oliver Chantler

Moving our bodies is good for our mental health, so what’s stopping us?

Actor Liz Carr says it hurts to hear her younger self ‘wanted to die’
Disability rights

Actor Liz Carr says it hurts to hear her younger self ‘wanted to die’

‘We’re needed more than ever’: Big Issue’s work has helped millions affected by poverty in last year
Big Issue Group

‘We’re needed more than ever’: Big Issue’s work has helped millions affected by poverty in last year

Filmmaker Melanie Manchot explains how her drama Stephen can offer hope to addicts
Film

Filmmaker Melanie Manchot explains how her drama Stephen can offer hope to addicts

Delta Goodrem on ‘angel’ healthcare workers and advice Olivia Newton-John shared after cancer diagnosis
Music

Delta Goodrem on ‘angel’ healthcare workers and advice Olivia Newton-John shared after cancer diagnosis

Stigma of poverty is a ‘wicked social problem’, report warns – but it doesn’t have to be this way
Poverty

Stigma of poverty is a ‘wicked social problem’, report warns – but it doesn’t have to be this way

‘Real change is essential’: Our blueprint for change shows how Sunak and Starmer can end poverty for good
Big Issue

‘Real change is essential’: Our blueprint for change shows how Sunak and Starmer can end poverty for good

Donald Trump,World War 3, climate crisis, benefit cuts… Here’s how to process the news when it feels hopeless
Mental health

Donald Trump,World War 3, climate crisis, benefit cuts… Here’s how to process the news when it feels hopeless

Sananda Maitreya: ‘You don’t have to suffer. You can just choose happiness’
Letter To My Younger Self

Sananda Maitreya: ‘You don’t have to suffer. You can just choose happiness’

How puzzles became the nourishing distraction that helps me face the day
Sam Delaney

How puzzles became the nourishing distraction that helps me face the day

‘The pain was too much’: Black woman says she almost died in childbirth due to ‘racial prejudices’
Health

‘The pain was too much’: Black woman says she almost died in childbirth due to ‘racial prejudices’

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Much Ado About Dying filmmaker on social care and why we should all be exposed to ‘good deaths’
Film

Much Ado About Dying filmmaker on social care and why we should all be exposed to ‘good deaths’