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Activists are trying to force JD Sports, M&S and more to disclose low pay – all through shareholders
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Wages

Activists are trying to force JD Sports, M&S and more to disclose low pay – all through shareholders

A campaign is trying to raise retail pay by getting shareholders to vote for pay transparency
‘It’s easier to buy a vape than an apple’: How greengrocers on wheels could change the UK
Paul Flannery, local green grocer who runs the Queen of Greens bus
Food poverty

‘It’s easier to buy a vape than an apple’: How greengrocers on wheels could change the UK

Thousands of Brit-born children with migrant parents face destitution: ‘Don’t deny children their rights’
A child holding a globe
Poverty

Thousands of Brit-born children with migrant parents face destitution: ‘Don’t deny children their rights’

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Whatever happened to Make Poverty History?
Make Poverty History

Whatever happened to Make Poverty History?

This innovative new project helps get both domestic abuse victims and perpetrators off the streets
Homelessness

This innovative new project helps get both domestic abuse victims and perpetrators off the streets

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

Cost of living crisis

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‘It’s easier to buy a vape than an apple’: How greengrocers on wheels could change the UK
Paul Flannery, local green grocer who runs the Queen of Greens bus
Food poverty

‘It’s easier to buy a vape than an apple’: How greengrocers on wheels could change the UK

Thousands of Brit-born children with migrant parents face destitution: ‘Don’t deny children their rights’
A child holding a globe
Poverty

Thousands of Brit-born children with migrant parents face destitution: ‘Don’t deny children their rights’

31 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the summer holidays
kids eat free/ easter holidays
Kids eat free

31 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the summer holidays

DWP payment dates in July 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month
Image of an older man paying money
Benefits

DWP payment dates in July 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month

Housing

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This innovative new project helps get both domestic abuse victims and perpetrators off the streets
the silhouette of a woman in a flat
Homelessness

This innovative new project helps get both domestic abuse victims and perpetrators off the streets

Labour wants to shake-up the controversial Right to Buy scheme with these three steps
Labour housing secretary Angela Rayner and housing minister Matthew Pennycook
Right to buy

Labour wants to shake-up the controversial Right to Buy scheme with these three steps

Over 10 times more women sleeping rough than official stats suggest, report says
A woman on the street
Rough sleeping

Over 10 times more women sleeping rough than official stats suggest, report says

Labour wants to build 300,000 affordable and social homes in 10 years. But is it enough?
Labour housing secretary Angela Rayner
Social housing

Labour wants to build 300,000 affordable and social homes in 10 years. But is it enough?

Our vendors

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A View, From a Bridge is the social media sensation where strangers reveal all on an old, red phone
Social media

A View, From a Bridge is the social media sensation where strangers reveal all on an old, red phone

Letters: Landlords should be made illegal to fix the housing market
Letters

Letters: Landlords should be made illegal to fix the housing market

Letters: Reform getting in will cause a lot of civil disruption
Letters

Letters: Reform getting in will cause a lot of civil disruption

Meet the ex-Big Issue vendor who went from homelessness to giving Prince William a tour of Aberdeen
Prince WIlliam is given a tour of Aberdeen by former Big Issue vendor Angus
Homelessness

Meet the ex-Big Issue vendor who went from homelessness to giving Prince William a tour of Aberdeen

Employment

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Activists are trying to force JD Sports, M&S and more to disclose low pay – all through shareholders
Stock photo of UK bank notes and coins
Wages

Activists are trying to force JD Sports, M&S and more to disclose low pay – all through shareholders

Is a four-day working week inevitable? Latest UK pilot sees 100% success rate
Four-day working week

Is a four-day working week inevitable? Latest UK pilot sees 100% success rate

Labour’s disability benefits bill is supposed to help people into work – but the jobs aren’t there
Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall speaking in parliament
Disability Benefits

Labour’s disability benefits bill is supposed to help people into work – but the jobs aren’t there

Nearly half of young Brits say health issues will push them out of work. How can we cope without them?
Employment

Nearly half of young Brits say health issues will push them out of work. How can we cope without them?

Social justice

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‘It’s easier to buy a vape than an apple’: How greengrocers on wheels could change the UK
Paul Flannery, local green grocer who runs the Queen of Greens bus
Food poverty

‘It’s easier to buy a vape than an apple’: How greengrocers on wheels could change the UK

PIP cuts are paused after ‘shambolic’ series of U-turns – but is it enough to rebuild trust in Labour?
Keir Starmer
Disability benefits

PIP cuts are paused after ‘shambolic’ series of U-turns – but is it enough to rebuild trust in Labour?

Here’s why 49 Labour MPs still voted against Starmer’s benefits bill: ‘It’s not the Labour way’
Liz Kendall
Disability benefits

Here’s why 49 Labour MPs still voted against Starmer’s benefits bill: ‘It’s not the Labour way’

Police could stop opioid deaths with this drug. So why do some UK forces stop officers carrying it?
A police officer administers nasal naloxone.
Drug deaths

Police could stop opioid deaths with this drug. So why do some UK forces stop officers carrying it?

Activism

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Whatever happened to Make Poverty History?
Make Poverty History

Whatever happened to Make Poverty History?

As the government moves to ban Palestine Action, are terror laws being used for ‘political policing’?
Yvette Cooper
Protest

As the government moves to ban Palestine Action, are terror laws being used for ‘political policing’?

Disabled protesters say they’ll stop Labour’s benefit cuts – or die trying: ‘I will fight my heart out’
Protesters in Cardiff outside their local MP's office with a sign saying 'welfare not warfare'
Disability benefits

Disabled protesters say they’ll stop Labour’s benefit cuts – or die trying: ‘I will fight my heart out’

These scientists felt powerless over the climate crisis – so they decided to do something about it
Climate activism

These scientists felt powerless over the climate crisis – so they decided to do something about it

Environment

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Should taxpayers pay for solar panels to be installed on homes?
solar panels on the roof of a block of flats
Green energy

Should taxpayers pay for solar panels to be installed on homes?

How a Manchester community welcomed the return of the swifts
Nature

How a Manchester community welcomed the return of the swifts

Photographer of the year Zed Nelson on documenting the decimation of nature by humans
Photography

Photographer of the year Zed Nelson on documenting the decimation of nature by humans

Big Issue Recruit to help jobseekers in South Wales secure green jobs on onshore wind farm
The site in the Welsh valleys where Twyn Hywel energy park is set to begin construction early next year
Big Issue Recruit

Big Issue Recruit to help jobseekers in South Wales secure green jobs on onshore wind farm

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