Summer’s here and the time is right to visit some street paper vendors across the world

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The Big Issue Magazine

28 July, 2025

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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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‘homelessness made me who i am today’

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