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The Big Issue

April 2024

  • A young rebel fighter in Liberia.

    ‘He could create beauty out of horror’: the extraordinary life and photography of Tim Hetherington

    He joined rebel convoys in Africa and turned his time with GIs in Afghanistan into an Oscar-nominated film. But his subject wasn’t war – it was people. Ahead of a major show, our writer remembers his former colleague

April 2023

  • Big Issue North seller

    Big Issue North to close after 30 years

    Publisher says reduced town centre footfall and higher costs mean regional edition is no longer viable

June 2021

  • Marcus, who has been selling the Big Issue since 1996.

    ‘It gave me a reason to exist’: 25 years of the Big Issue in Australia

    The not-for-profit magazine that helps those experiencing disadvantage is constantly looking for new ways to aid people on the margins

July 2020

  • The Messenger sculpture outside Theatre Royal Plymouth, wrapped for the #MissingLiveTheatre campaign.

    Culture in peril
    'I haven’t had a drink since I started': how theatre got me off the streets

    Theatre Royal Plymouth is one of many UK arts venues facing crisis. Clive, who sells the Big Issue outside the theatre, explains how it changed his life

June 2020

  • James Bowen with Bob in 2013.

    Street Cat Named Bob: pet who inspired books and film dies aged 14

    James Bowen, who met Bob during his battle with drug addiction, says pet ‘saved his life’

April 2020

  • The Big Issue

    Big Issue to be sold in stores for first time after street sales paused

    Magazine will be sold in McColl’s and Sainsbury’s outlets to raise money for homeless vendors

December 2019

  • Jodie Whittaker in Doctor Who

    'No galaxies collapsed': Jodie Whittaker on being first female Doctor

    Opening episode of new series will feature in BBC One’s New Year’s Day schedule

November 2017

  • A bright house store, which offers weekly payment finance for household goods, Barry, Cardiff, Wales, UK.

    Rent should count towards credit ratings

    Letters: How many people realise that their rental payment history could help them access more affordable credit, asks the Big Issue founder John Bird

October 2017

  • John Bird, founder of The Big Issue

    Start your own ethical business – it could make a world of difference

  • Homeless man in Manchester

    Homeless facing worst winter crisis for 20 years, says Big Issue founder

March 2016

  • Toni Osborne and Jack Richardson in Bristol on their wedding day

    Big Issue seller marries woman he met when she asked him for change

    Jack Richardson asked Toni Osborne to help him out but ended up giving her 50p for electricity, starting an unlikely romance

January 2016

  • John Bird

    Nicola Jennings's caricatures
    John Bird caricature

    Social entrepreneur

November 2015

  • Change Please coffee cup

    Coffee project based on Big Issue model gets London launch

    Change Please will train baristas, pay living wage and underwrite tenancies for workers who would otherwise struggle to rent a property

October 2015

  • John Bird, founder of the Big Issue

    Big Issue founder John Bird to join House of Lords

    Homelessness campaigner among four new non-party-political peers, along with academics Julia King, Mary Watkins and Robert Mair

February 2015

  • Bill Shorten selling the Big Issue

    Bill Shorten sells Big Issue with a touch of schadenfreude as Liberals fracture

    The opposition leader drops the political script – and a few Shorten zingers – as he chats amiably to Melburnians while selling the magazine

November 2014

  • Danish Illegal magazine

    New magazine to help London drug users fund habit legally

  • Benedict Cumberbatch.

    Big Issue relaunches with Benedict Cumberbatch and return of spot the ball

June 2014

  • Iain Duncan Smith

    Greenslade
    The Big Issue is used by migrants to claim benefits, says Iain Duncan Smith

    Work and pensions secretary speaks out in row over tax credits – but magazine says it's the system that is flawed

March 2014

  • Greenslade
    Sun on Sunday scoop on George Michael and drugs has a long pedigree

    'Exclusive' that repeated facts from more than two years ago

February 2014

  • Greenslade
    Scots politicians become Big Issue vendors

    They sell the magazine on Glasgow streets

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