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(Above) Tom Grennan plays to a huge crowd at his Big Issue busk in Coventry

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The Big Issue Magazine

07 October, 2024

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‘i can deal with the cold and wet weather. what i can’t deal with is everybody walking past me on the streets like i don’t exist’

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

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It’s not all about getting money, it’s about feeling you’re a valued human being

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

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Big issue’s always there for me. it makes me feel different about myself.

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

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I remember dolphins in africa and elephants in their wild habitats

I’ve been in the UK for almost two years now. I left in 1988 and started a family in France. I worked internationally in many, many different places. I was in the oil industry so I had a good job, sta

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