environment and community

Majority of disabled people would like to exercise more but fear the DWP would cut their benefits
A person racing in a wheelchair. I
benefits

Majority of disabled people would like to exercise more but fear the DWP would cut their benefits

Many benefit claimants are caught in the “activity trap”: they want to be more active, but worry that their benefits will be revoked
Inside the Big Issue: Prison Break
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Prison Break

We need you! Nominate who you think should be a Big Issue Changemaker in 2027
Some of our 2026 Changemakers.
News

We need you! Nominate who you think should be a Big Issue Changemaker in 2027

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

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

Inside the Big Issue: KSI's got talent
Behind the scenes

Inside the Big Issue: KSI's got talent

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
A new Bhopal disaster play asks whose lives are considered expendable in the pursuit of profit?
Linnea Berthelsen in Darkling, a play about the Bhopal disaster
Theatre

A new Bhopal disaster play asks whose lives are considered expendable in the pursuit of profit?

What are data centres? And do we even need them?
Campaigners holding a banner reading 'Save Brick Lane'
Technology

What are data centres? And do we even need them?

Inside the Big Issue: Smart glasses on the streets
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Smart glasses on the streets

We are paying for the climate crisis with lives and homes. The Nepal-Tibet floods must spark action
Devastation after Nepal-Tibet flooding
Shreya K.C.

We are paying for the climate crisis with lives and homes. The Nepal-Tibet floods must spark action

Inside the Big Issue: I am Still Me
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: I am Still Me

It's 10 years since BHS folded. How do we put the spark back into the British high street?
The site of the old BHS in Kirkcaldy has been spruced up by locals but remains empty
Community

It's 10 years since BHS folded. How do we put the spark back into the British high street?

Why building homes around railway stations is ‘far from an assault on the countryside’
a train at a station in the UK
Russell Curtis

Why building homes around railway stations is ‘far from an assault on the countryside’

Renters still face living in draughty homes – even if their landlord is the King
King Charles III
Nye Jones

Renters still face living in draughty homes – even if their landlord is the King

Inside the Big Issue: Amelia Dimoldenberg's opportunity issue
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Amelia Dimoldenberg's opportunity issue

What walking around the world taught Karl Bushby: 'A constant display of the very best of humanity'
Karl Bushby in Chile in 1999
Travel

What walking around the world taught Karl Bushby: 'A constant display of the very best of humanity'

A data centre is uniting bugs and bikers to fight Google: 'We demand you replace what you destroy'
The old speedway ground in Thurrock being eyed up by Google carries both sporting and ecological significance
Technology

A data centre is uniting bugs and bikers to fight Google: 'We demand you replace what you destroy'

Why Britain needs an anti-racism strategy right now
a placard reading: 'everybody vs racism'
Stephen Walcott

Why Britain needs an anti-racism strategy right now

Inside the Big Issue: Skin in the game
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Skin in the game

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

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

Sadiq Khan admits he is 'really worried' about the impact of hot weather on homeless Londoners
Heatwave

Sadiq Khan admits he is 'really worried' about the impact of hot weather on homeless Londoners

Inside the Big Issue: Hive hopes
Big Issue cover 1723: Hive Hopes
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Hive hopes

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
In pictures: Meet the farmers in Pakistan who are rebuilding their homes after devastating floods
Ghulam Qasim
Khaula Jamil

In pictures: Meet the farmers in Pakistan who are rebuilding their homes after devastating floods

The Londoners living without access to water for six months as temperatures rise: ‘It’s unbearable’
Langmead House in Bromley-by-Bow
Housing

The Londoners living without access to water for six months as temperatures rise: ‘It’s unbearable’

London's data centres use 750,000 homes' worth of electricity. It's bad news for the housing crisis
a data centre
Artificial Intelligence

London's data centres use 750,000 homes' worth of electricity. It's bad news for the housing crisis

How can I support England at World Cup 2026 when people who want me deported have claimed the flag?
the St George's Flag
World Cup

How can I support England at World Cup 2026 when people who want me deported have claimed the flag?