‘i felt like a burden’

Big Issue changed my life. I was sat begging after I’d just become homeless. One of the Big Issue workers came past me on their bike and stopped and talked to me. I went into the office the next morni

One in 400 UK veterans experience homelessness. This small charity is using houseboats to lift them beyond the incoming tide Just over 12 months ago, Jay Saunders couldn’t make eye contact. Today, he’

After suffering a double tragedy, Lisa Wilson, 62, turned her pain into a hope for others

Now I am very famous here in Alnwick because everyone knows me — I’ve sold magazines for 17 years in this pitch. It’s a little easier for me now. I’m from Romania originally, but I emigrated when I wa

There was no way my fella was wiping my backside!

I was a chef up until 2006 when I got run over. I got knocked off my bike and for 18 months I was injured. I had stopped and a jeep pulled up behind me and hit me, but my bag saved my head from hittin