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11 ways to spread kindness without spending money
Random Acts of Kindness
Random Acts of Kindness Day

11 ways to spread kindness without spending money

Random Acts of Kindness Day could be a great opportunity to help someone out, even if you don't have much spare money. Here's how
This is the 'most thoughtful and inspiring' food project celebrity chef Levi Roots has ever seen
Levi Roots cuts the ribbon to launch the INI Food and Wellbeing Centre. To his right is Sistah Stella Headley and to his left is Jean-Michel Grand, the chief executive of Action Against Hunger UK.
Food poverty

This is the 'most thoughtful and inspiring' food project celebrity chef Levi Roots has ever seen

TikTok star and teacher Shabaz Ali: 'Kids should not be going without food in this country'
shabaz ali @shabazsays
Child poverty

TikTok star and teacher Shabaz Ali: 'Kids should not be going without food in this country'

Gail Porter on going from TV star to homeless and the power of having your own washing machine
Furniture poverty

Gail Porter on going from TV star to homeless and the power of having your own washing machine

The remarkable ways a Yorkshire children's charity is fighting hidden poverty and rural destitution
Poverty

The remarkable ways a Yorkshire children's charity is fighting hidden poverty and rural destitution

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Big Issue founder John Bird celebrates vendors at House of Lords – and vows to help end destitution
National Vendor Week

Big Issue founder John Bird celebrates vendors at House of Lords – and vows to help end destitution

Beats Bus: How a Hull group is using hip-hop to fight poverty and protect young people from gangs
beats bus
Community activism

Beats Bus: How a Hull group is using hip-hop to fight poverty and protect young people from gangs

A person is reported missing every 90 seconds in UK – and cost of living crisis is making it worse
Missing piece of puzzle
Missing persons

A person is reported missing every 90 seconds in UK – and cost of living crisis is making it worse

Big Issue urges prime minister to protect renters with bold Rishi's Removals stunt
Big Issue launches End Housing Insecurity Now with Rishi Sunak removals van stunt
End Housing Insecurity Now

Big Issue urges prime minister to protect renters with bold Rishi's Removals stunt

The accidental food bank: How youth clubs are becoming frontline services
Food banks

The accidental food bank: How youth clubs are becoming frontline services

Free school meals for all would generate billions for the economy. Here's why
Free school meals illustration
Week of action

Free school meals for all would generate billions for the economy. Here's why

Mums on hunger strike since Mother’s Day in solidarity with parents who can’t feed their kids
food poverty
Food poverty

Mums on hunger strike since Mother’s Day in solidarity with parents who can’t feed their kids

All the best ways to help others in the cold weather
cold weather help
Advice

All the best ways to help others in the cold weather

Cost of living update: Pensioners protest freezing homes and record energy bills
Activism

Cost of living update: Pensioners protest freezing homes and record energy bills

The Big Issue Changemakers of 2023: Cost of living crisis
Ray Barron-Woolford at his community hub phonebox
Changemakers 2023

The Big Issue Changemakers of 2023: Cost of living crisis

Cafe that finds work for adults with learning disabilities appeals for help amid cost of living crisis
Cafe Van Gogh
Small businesses

Cafe that finds work for adults with learning disabilities appeals for help amid cost of living crisis

These primary students are going for Christmas number one to raise money for their school
children singing at Barn Croft school
Cost of Living

These primary students are going for Christmas number one to raise money for their school

Don't Pay UK supporters are cancelling their direct debits regardless of the consequences
Don't Pay UK
Energy bills

Don't Pay UK supporters are cancelling their direct debits regardless of the consequences

'Enough is enough': Why workers and campaigners are protesting around the country
Cost of Living Crisis

'Enough is enough': Why workers and campaigners are protesting around the country

All the protests and strikes taking place this weekend as anger grows over the economic crisis
Cost of living crisis protest, Enough is enough, UK protest
Protest

All the protests and strikes taking place this weekend as anger grows over the economic crisis

Gordon Brown steps in to help save one of the UK’s largest food banks from closure
food bank
Activism

Gordon Brown steps in to help save one of the UK’s largest food banks from closure

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Don't Pay UK says energy bills strike will not take place on October 1
Don't Pay UK/ Energy bills strike
Activism

Don't Pay UK says energy bills strike will not take place on October 1

‘I do not know how I’m going to survive’: Campaigners head to Number 10 to demand help in mini-budget
energy bills, liz truss, mini budget
Cost of living crisis

‘I do not know how I’m going to survive’: Campaigners head to Number 10 to demand help in mini-budget

Warm This Winter: Charities form campaign group to fight cost of living crisis
Warm This Winter
Energy crisis

Warm This Winter: Charities form campaign group to fight cost of living crisis

Don't Pay UK to stage protest outside Ofgem offices as energy price rise is confirmed
feelings known about the cost of living crisis at a rally in early April 2022
Energy Bils

Don't Pay UK to stage protest outside Ofgem offices as energy price rise is confirmed

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