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Poverty

UN calls on Labour to increase benefits and scrap two-child limit in UK poverty crisis warning
Prime minister Keir Starmer
Human rights

UN calls on Labour to increase benefits and scrap two-child limit in UK poverty crisis warning

Pensioners 'reduced to tears' by 'complex' forms when applying for help from DWP
pensioner looking out the window
Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners 'reduced to tears' by 'complex' forms when applying for help from DWP

DWP payment dates in March 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
image of cash
Benefits

DWP payment dates in March 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

Scrap two-child benefit cap to prove you're serious about child poverty, Labour told
Child poverty

Scrap two-child benefit cap to prove you're serious about child poverty, Labour told

Jane Austen has become my shelter against a confusing world
John Bird

Jane Austen has become my shelter against a confusing world

Labour reveals plan to 'take everybody into a new digital era': 'It's a difference between us and Tories'
Secretary of State Peter Kyle hosts a launch event for the new Digital Centre of Government
Digital inclusion

Labour reveals plan to 'take everybody into a new digital era': 'It's a difference between us and Tories'

'Heartbreak' for millions of Brits as energy bills to rise by more than expected from April
hob
Energy bills

'Heartbreak' for millions of Brits as energy bills to rise by more than expected from April

Most households paying £750 a year more for energy bills than before cost of living crisis
Energy meter
Energy bills

Most households paying £750 a year more for energy bills than before cost of living crisis

Bad news for Labour: Voters who feel 'economically insecure' far more likely to switch parties
Politics

Bad news for Labour: Voters who feel 'economically insecure' far more likely to switch parties

No recourse to public funds traps families like mine in poverty. It's time the government ended it
praxis no recourse to public funds group. image of campaigners
Uche

No recourse to public funds traps families like mine in poverty. It's time the government ended it

Energy bills being more than £1,700 a year is not normal – we need government intervention
Prime minister Keir Starmer, chancellor Rachel Reeves and secretary for energy security and net zero Ed Miliband. Image: Simon Dawson/ No 10 Downing Street/ Flickr
Matt Copeland

Energy bills being more than £1,700 a year is not normal – we need government intervention

More than 24 million Brits don't earn enough for a 'decent standard of living', report finds
people walking in london
Cost of living

More than 24 million Brits don't earn enough for a 'decent standard of living', report finds

Gaslighting the public: How the energy industry is profiting from our pain as bills are set to go up
gas hob
Simon Francis

Gaslighting the public: How the energy industry is profiting from our pain as bills are set to go up

Nearly one million older people in the UK could face water poverty by 2029. We need change
elderly woman washing food in tap water
Andy Slaughter MP

Nearly one million older people in the UK could face water poverty by 2029. We need change

Aberdeen vendor shares fears over M&S closure with local MP: "She's in our corner"
MP Kirsty Blackman and Big Issue vendor Pamela smile during a meeting in Aberdeen.
Our campaigns

Aberdeen vendor shares fears over M&S closure with local MP: "She's in our corner"

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

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
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

Children are poor because their mothers are poor. But is Labour serious about tackling it?
Starmer and Phillipson at a school
Dr Sara Reis

Children are poor because their mothers are poor. But is Labour serious about tackling it?

Ledbury Big Issue vendor tells local MP: 'Take my concerns to Westminster'
MP Ellie Chowns and Big Issue support worker Mo Afzal smile at the camera, in a cafe in Ledbury, England.
Our campaigns

Ledbury Big Issue vendor tells local MP: 'Take my concerns to Westminster'

Labour's housing benefit freeze leaves almost one million children at risk of poverty
chancellor Rachel Reeves and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner
Housing benefit

Labour's housing benefit freeze leaves almost one million children at risk of poverty

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