How the big issue changes our vendors’ lives

I’m selling Big Issue basically to make sure I feed myself. I get help from the government as well which I try to send to my wife. So Big Issue keeps me going and keeps me alive. I came back from Aust

I had my first-time experience of homelessness when I was 11 years old because I wouldn’t go to school. To go home from the bullying into an alcoholic background, plus I was sniffing glue, solvents an

↑ Inspired by last week’s dogs cover, here are Jessica’s Christmassy doggos Ollie the golden retriever and Paisley the cockapoo. @jessica_lloyd4, Instagram Send us your image, or photo you’ve captured

The Big Issue, 2nd floor, 43 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 1HW letters@bigissue.com@bigissueuk @bigissue.com@bigissue /bigissueUK thebigissue ↑ I completed LeJog (Lands End to John O’ Groats) for charity la

Notes on a scandal How many more BBC scandals will there have to be before the government of the day steps in and sorts it out? The Trump speech fiasco is only the latest. In just the last 12 months o

Michael Hall sells Big Issue at Temple Meads station in Bristol. His sentiment about passers-by passing by is one shared by many of our sellers. Last week we reported that over half (54%) of the appro