The Big Issue

The Big Issue is a UK-based street paper that supports the homeless, the vulnerably housed asnd those seeking to escape poverty. Vendors normally buy the magazine for £1.25 and sell to the public for £2.50. We are using Zinio digital editions to create additonal revenue opportunities to fund our street-based and pastoral care services for our vendors. We are a social enterprise company and all revenues go to support the vulnerable communities we serve. Our goal is to move our vendors away from dependency and towards full time employment

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THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • The galactic mixtape extending a hand of welcome to the universe

It will take all of us working together to fix the housing crisis. The Church of England has a plan

BIRD’S WORDS • If we don’t have a long-term strategy, we’ll never end homelessness

LETTERS

To solve the UK housing crisis we’d need to build 36 of these* • *Milton Keynes

Welcome to the housing estate where lifelong residents are in a fight to preserve their homes • Residents from the Uplands estate in Runcorn are up in arms over plans to regenerate their estate, which they fear would mean fewer houses than currently exist. The Big Issue went to meet them

I’ve got the key, I’ve got the secret… to success on the high street • Just like Big Issue vendors across the country, Timpson is a high street survivor, bucking the downward trend of many city and town centre retailers. CEO James Timpson says kindness is key

Can we ever be truly equal?

SANANDA MAITREYA • The 1980s pop sensation encountered some big names along the way, but the one person he really wishes he’d met was his father

ART • UNTITLED ARTWORK

Books

TV

Simon Chambers TURNING A CAMERA ON THE FINAL ACT • In documenting the end of his Uncle David’s life, Simon Chambers has thrown a spotlight on the crisis in social care, while exploring an aspect of human existence that is rarely seen or talked about – the act of dying

ROBIN INCE IS ON THE ROAD

Music

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Co-op, St Annes, Bristol Days vary, 11am-4pm