Community

Meet the people raising awareness of dementia in the South Asian community
The Dementia Community Champions
Dementia

Meet the people raising awareness of dementia in the South Asian community

'There's no word for dementia in Gujarati.' Alzheimer’s Research UK has launched a Dementia Community Champions project to help raise awareness in underrepresented communities
Can transforming closed pubs into homes offer a solution to the housing crisis? 
Keely Dalfen (second from right) with some of the team at The Brick
Housing

Can transforming closed pubs into homes offer a solution to the housing crisis? 

'Where do kids get their musical instruments from if mum and dad can’t afford it?'
Kyle Osborne and the KO Quartet from Tomorrow's Warriors
Young people

'Where do kids get their musical instruments from if mum and dad can’t afford it?'

How can we revitalise the high street?
Steven MacKenzie

How can we revitalise the high street?

Why Downing Street needs a new name if it is going to properly repair the fabric of society
John bird

Why Downing Street needs a new name if it is going to properly repair the fabric of society

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Why do people live 14 years longer at one end of Leeds' famous Otley Run pub crawl than the other?
people on the Otley Run in Leeds
Health inequality

Why do people live 14 years longer at one end of Leeds' famous Otley Run pub crawl than the other?

The community group who took over a leisure centre to give everyone access to sport and fitness
An older woman working out at BeActive Urmston
Sport

The community group who took over a leisure centre to give everyone access to sport and fitness

'Politics is the youth centre that keeps its doors open’
Dr Louisa Munch

'Politics is the youth centre that keeps its doors open’

Leicester Riders: The basketball team taking on knife crime
Sport

Leicester Riders: The basketball team taking on knife crime

Beyond British seaside holidays: How homelessness and poverty go unseen in coastal communities
St Ives harbour and beach, Cornwall.
Coastal poverty

Beyond British seaside holidays: How homelessness and poverty go unseen in coastal communities

Airbnb kills communities. Is it time for a ban?
The Airbnb logo struck through
Short-term lets

Airbnb kills communities. Is it time for a ban?

I know from experience how hard it is to seek help with debt. I'm helping local people take the step
Karen and Jessica
Debt

I know from experience how hard it is to seek help with debt. I'm helping local people take the step

Chucky spent eight years in and out of homelessness. Now he's training to keep bees
Bees

Chucky spent eight years in and out of homelessness. Now he's training to keep bees

What running with Tinie Tempah taught us about volunteering: 'It's important to give hope'
Tinie Tempah
Music

What running with Tinie Tempah taught us about volunteering: 'It's important to give hope'

The story of the shantytown dwellers who grew their own wealth using vegetables
Marshall Heights.
Earth Day

The story of the shantytown dwellers who grew their own wealth using vegetables

Yungblud's Beautifully Romanticised Accidentally Traumatized is making one London street sing again
The opening of Yungblud's store and community space on London's Denmark Street in Soho
Denmark Street

Yungblud's Beautifully Romanticised Accidentally Traumatized is making one London street sing again

Striking photos capture British Muslim families breaking fast during Ramadan in food bank Britain
a British Muslim family breaking their fast during Ramadan
Cost of living

Striking photos capture British Muslim families breaking fast during Ramadan in food bank Britain

I shrank my own economy to live a less capitalist life. You could do it too
Society

I shrank my own economy to live a less capitalist life. You could do it too

Gordon Brown: 'This can't go on – 4.3 million people in poverty is unsustainable'
Exclusive

Gordon Brown: 'This can't go on – 4.3 million people in poverty is unsustainable'

I'm a mother of children with disabilities. My local support group gave me a chance to breathe
Michelle Keen and her son George.
Michelle Keen

I'm a mother of children with disabilities. My local support group gave me a chance to breathe

I am a British citizen and have lived in the UK for 20 years. But as a refugee, I feel afraid here
Union Jacks line the streets of central London.
Dine

I am a British citizen and have lived in the UK for 20 years. But as a refugee, I feel afraid here

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
This Lancaster Priory monument was a culture wars flashpoint. Then it became a force for good
The monument at Lancaster Priory.
Dr Chris Donaldson and Dr Sunita Abraham

This Lancaster Priory monument was a culture wars flashpoint. Then it became a force for good

No room at the inn for refugees? Many Brits are happy to welcome strangers in need
Dr Krish Kandiah

No room at the inn for refugees? Many Brits are happy to welcome strangers in need

Young people drop out of school when no one seems to care. Labour's plans could change lives
A stock image of teenagers in a school class.
Jack Reynolds

Young people drop out of school when no one seems to care. Labour's plans could change lives

'We try and make it magical': How this Big Issue-backed grotto is spreading Christmas cheer
A santa with children dressed in Christmas costumes
Big Issue Invest

'We try and make it magical': How this Big Issue-backed grotto is spreading Christmas cheer