The Big Issue Magazine
17 June 2024
The Big Issue is one of Britain’s leading news and cultural magazines. Every week’s edition is packed full of original takes on the biggest issues of the day as well as interviews with the most significant figures in politics and entertainment. The Big Issue was founded 1991 to give people experiencing homelessness the opportunity to earn their own income. We continue to support hundreds of vendors across the UK and all proceeds from sales go to help anyone wanting to lift themselves out of poverty.
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Welcome to this very special edition of big issue.
Nearly half of uk’s population doesn’t know what a learning disability is, study finds: ‘growing up there was nobody in the media like me’
Why the next government must show compassion and reform the benefits system
Free bus travel could help lift young people out of poverty and remove barriers to work
Get in touch
A brand once asked me: ‘do you know anyone who looks more disabled than you’?
Politics
Locked away from life
Housing advice for people with learning disabilities
‘people in theaudiencethink, “i can do that”’
What sophie wants
‘with the right people behind you, you can do anything’ – even climb a mountain!