How the Big Grow is strengthening communities and building resilience through growing food
Tatiana Hardy tends her school garden as part of the Big Grow project
Food

How the Big Grow is strengthening communities and building resilience through growing food

The success of Andy Burnham’s rough sleeping pledge can’t be judged on Christmas Day. Here’s why
Prime minister Andy Burnham meets former rough sleepers at Independence Initiative alongside Lord John Bird, John Healey and Angela Rayner
Emma Haddad

The success of Andy Burnham’s rough sleeping pledge can’t be judged on Christmas Day. Here’s why

Is it fair to ask a homeless person to give up their pet to get a home? Half of Brits say no
Big Issue vendor, Alfie Brew on his pitch at Co-op, St Thomas, Exeter
Housing

Is it fair to ask a homeless person to give up their pet to get a home? Half of Brits say no

Baby banks are the hidden emergency service Labour cannot afford to ignore
mother and baby at a baby bank
Hannah Pentith

Baby banks are the hidden emergency service Labour cannot afford to ignore

Everyone is being asked to prepare for troubled times. What does it mean for people in poverty?
Steven MacKenzie

Everyone is being asked to prepare for troubled times. What does it mean for people in poverty?

A disabled Big Issue vendor has launched legal action to get an accessible home: 'I've had enough'
Big Issue vendor Jason Sallis pictured in his overgrown garden
Accessible homes

A disabled Big Issue vendor has launched legal action to get an accessible home: 'I've had enough'

'I don’t fit the stereotype of a homeless person. My story shows how it can happen to anyone'
Dr Karishmeh Felfeli-Crawford
Homelessness

'I don’t fit the stereotype of a homeless person. My story shows how it can happen to anyone'

If we are serious about ending rough sleeping, we must be honest about what needs to be done
From left to write: Big Issue founder Lord John Bird with Labour MP Paula Barker and Big Issue vendor Nathan Dale
Housing

If we are serious about ending rough sleeping, we must be honest about what needs to be done

Lives are being 'tragically cut short' due to homelessness. These are the numbers you need to know
a close-up view of four lit pillar candles against a dark blue background
Homeless deaths

Lives are being 'tragically cut short' due to homelessness. These are the numbers you need to know

Meet the homeless people living in hotel rooms miles from their home towns: 'It took its toll'
Miracle who was homeless and lived out of area in temporary accommodation
Housing

Meet the homeless people living in hotel rooms miles from their home towns: 'It took its toll'

Break Clause: Why living with an ex because of the housing crisis is more common than you think
Break Clause

Break Clause: Why living with an ex because of the housing crisis is more common than you think

More than 1,700 people died while homeless in 2025. It’s a ‘national scandal’
Homeless deaths tribute
Homelessness

More than 1,700 people died while homeless in 2025. It’s a ‘national scandal’

What could be in chancellor John Healey's autumn budget and what could it mean for you?
Chancellor John Healey delivering a 'growth speech'. at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry.
Politics

What could be in chancellor John Healey's autumn budget and what could it mean for you?

'A child's life can be made easier by money arriving when it should'
a child at a food shop
Baroness Maeve Sherlock

'A child's life can be made easier by money arriving when it should'

The Apprentice's Tim Campbell: 'I'd make degrees free. We should treat education as infrastructure'
Tim Campbell
PM For The PM

The Apprentice's Tim Campbell: 'I'd make degrees free. We should treat education as infrastructure'

'I waited nine months for PIP decision. It was horrendous and my mental health suffered'
PIP claimant Jake
Gabrielle Pickard Whitehead

'I waited nine months for PIP decision. It was horrendous and my mental health suffered'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Mass dependence on emergency food parcels is a 'moral scar' on Britain. How do we end it?
Lisburn Foodbank in Northern Ireland. Image: Trussell/ Robert Stothard
Sabine Goodwin

Mass dependence on emergency food parcels is a 'moral scar' on Britain. How do we end it?

Andy Burnham visits Big Issue-backed homelessness charity in bid to end rough sleeping
Independence Initiative's Darren advises chancellor John Healey and prime minister Andy Burnham in the charity's pantry
Rough sleeping

Andy Burnham visits Big Issue-backed homelessness charity in bid to end rough sleeping

This is how Andy Burnham’s government could end the need for food banks 
andy burnham at the passage
Heather Buckingham

This is how Andy Burnham’s government could end the need for food banks 

Will you become an unpaid carer? Brits underestimate how many will care for a relative for free
Unpaid carer Kevin Cameron and his son Tristan
Unpaid carers

Will you become an unpaid carer? Brits underestimate how many will care for a relative for free