This week's Big Issue is out today! Inside: 👁️ Big tech is watching you 🗣️ Escaping modern slavery 🤖 Do we really need all these data centres? Buy a copy from your local vendor today – and read a sneak peek here. bigissue.com/behind-the-scen…

'Everyone's capable of recovery with some hope' Deputy Editor of Big Issue, Liam Geraghty, sat down with Andy Burnham to discuss his plan to end homelessness by Christmas. 👉 Read the full interview in this week's magazine 💛 Buy from your local vendor or online

📣 Need. Resources. Put them together. Bringing empty homes back into use is 2.6 times cheaper than building new. It’s also quicker and greener 💚 The facts are: 👉 There are more than 309,000 long-term empty homes in England. 👉135,580 households are living in unsuitable temporary accommodation in England. 👉1.34 million households are on local authority social housing waiting lists. Big Issue is calling on government to publish a national Empty Homes Strategy to help tackle the housing crisis. 🏠 Find out more: bigissue.com/campaign-with-t…

Vote For Light - Jamie Reid 👉 What's your big issue? To celebrate 35 years of Big Issue, @grow_up_art_ invited 35 artists to create a piece of work to show what their big issue is. Buy now 👉 bigissueshop.com/collection/… This exclusive artwork has been created for Grow up's Paste, Present, Future project, in collaboration with UNCLE. 25% will be paid to Big Issue to support people experiencing poverty in the UK. Grow up invited artists to create work based on their 'big issue' - all views expressed in their work belong to the artist.

This Machine Kills Fascists - Grow Up 👉 What's your big issue? To celebrate 35 years of Big Issue, @grow_up_art_ invited 35 artists to create a piece of work to show what their big issue is. Buy now 👉 bigissueshop.com/collection/… This exclusive artwork has been created for Grow up's Paste, Present, Future project, in collaboration with UNCLE. 25% will be paid to Big Issue to support people experiencing poverty in the UK. Grow up invited artists to create work based on their 'big issue' - all views expressed in their work belong to the artist.

For 35 years, we've been giving people a hand up not a hand out. Andy Burnham reflects on this history of Big Issue, and the generosity of the public that supports us and vendors nationwide. 'What Colin always used to say to me is just how wonderful people are, the generosity of the public' 👉 Read Andy Burnham's full interview in this week's magazine. 💛 Buy it from your local vendor or online

'Now our commitment to homelessness is there, let's see what we can do' Watch Andy Burnham speak on his commitment to ending homelessness by Christmas. 'I'm standing here as Prime Minister, and I'm saying to you, this will remain a policy for as long as I'm in this job' 👉 Read our full interview with Andy Burnham in this week's edition of Big Issue 💛 Get your copy from your local vendor, or buy it online

"We're like a telephone box. We're part of a British institution. We are Big Issue and we're a voice." 📍 Kelvin Gregory sells Big Issue outside Somerset House, London (Mon - Fri) and on Lordship Lane, Dulwich (Saturday) 🎈 Kelvin has been selling the magazine since its inception in 1991, the perfect person to tell us how Big Issue has changed over the last 35 years "The magazines were just banded and the ink was bloody wet. The ink used to come off on your hands" "Before people might think it was a scam. Now with all the official stuff, the logo... we've learned from our mistakes" 🗞️ Vendors buy each magazine for £2.50 and sell it for £5, keeping the profit on every sale. ➡️ Read the full interview: bigissue.com/news/big-issue-…

🎈 1,735 Big Issues in 35 years For 35 years, we've been been helping to grow opportunity with a hand up, not a hand out. To celebrate our birthday, Big Issue founder John Bird looked through some of his favourite covers. 🎉 Here's to another 35 years! 💛 Support Big Issue. Buy from your local vendor or subscribe online.

No War - Anthony Burrill 👉 What's your big issue? To celebrate 35 years of Big Issue, @grow_up_art_ invited 35 artists to create a piece of work to show what their big issue is. Buy now 👉 bigissueshop.com/collection/… This exclusive artwork has been created for Grow up's Paste, Present, Future project, in collaboration with UNCLE. 25% will be paid to Big Issue to support people experiencing poverty in the UK. Grow up invited artists to create work based on their 'big issue' - all views expressed in their work belong to the artist.

Who gave you a hand up? For Big Issue ambassador Kwajo Tweneboa, it's friend Sarah. For 35 years Big Issue has been helping people create opportunity with a hand up, not a hand out. In celebration of our birthday, we want to know who's given you a hand up. A parent? Friend? Colleague? Teacher? Mentor? 📣 Share the story of how they helped you in the comments, or write your own post using #bighandup 💛 Anyone who writes a #bighandup has a chance of being featured in one of our future magazines! Comment down below 👇👇

Bryan Adams is our newest Big Issue Ambassador! In September 1991, when the first Big Issues were sold on the streets of London, Bryan Adams ruled the charts with the epic (Everything I Do) I Do It For You. 35 years on from Big Issue’s formation and his record-breaking anthem, he joins us as our newest Big Issue Ambassador. 🗣️ Bryan said: “Big kudos to Big Issue for everything you do. “I want people to understand that when they see a Big Issue vendor, they see someone selling the Big Issue, how important it is to contribute if you can. Because you are helping somebody who is trying to help themselves.” Find out more in this week’s magazine 👉 get it from your local vendor, or on bigissueshop.com if you can’t reach one

This week's Big Issue is out today! Inside: 🤝 35 years of a hand up 🏠 Inside Andy Burnham’s rough sleeping plan 🎤 Meet our new Ambassador, Bryan Adams Buy a copy from your local vendor today – and read a sneak peek at here 👀. bigissue.com/behind-the-scen…

35 years ago this week, the first copies of the Big Issue appeared on Britain's streets. It was a radical idea. Not charity. Not a handout. It was a #bighandup. The chance for someone struggling to earn their own money, on their own terms. 35 years later, that idea is still changing lives. Earlier this week, the BBC spoke to several Big Issue vendors about what selling the magazine has meant to them. Watch the full video here 👇 💛 Support Big Issue. Buy from your local vendor or subscribe online.

Hands up for a special Harry Styles covered Big Issue. Pre-order your copy now 🪩 To commemorate the final dates of his Together, Together shows, Harry Styles has worked with Big Issue to create a special collector’s cover, with photos from the show and details of the 2027 dates. Big Issue is a social enterprise that offers opportunity with hand up, not a hand out, helping people to work their way out of poverty. Magazines are bought at cost price by vendors who sell on and keep the profit. It's incredibly powerful that Harry Styles has chosen to exclusively mark the announcement with Big Issue. Be like Harry and show your support by buying a copy of the magazine. The latest edition will be available to buy from Monday from your local vendor, or pre-order online today. 💛 Pre-order you copy today: bigissueshop.com/collection/… #TogetherTogether2027 #HarryStyles #kissallthetimediscooccasionally

Gloria – Shuby 👉 What’s your big issue? To celebrate 35 years of Big Issue, Grow Up Art invited 35 artists to create a piece of work to show what their big issue is. This print and many more are available to buy in our shop Buy now 👉 click the link: bigissueshop.com/collection/… This exclusive artwork has been created for Grow up’s Paste, Present, Future project, in collaboration with UNCLE. 25% will be paid to Big Issue to support people experiencing poverty in the UK. Grow up invited artists to create work based on their ‘big issue’ – all views expressed in their work belong to the artist.

“Big Issue saved my life and I feel like I’m giving something back to them now” 📍 Robin Price sells Big Issue outside Co-Op, Pembrokeshire. “I’ve done quite a lot of work for Big Issue. It’s been tremendous to me over the years. Without them, I would be dead by now.” ➡️Read the full interview: bigissue.com/vendors/big-iss…

Who's given you a hand up? ✋ For 35 years Big Issue has been helping to grow opportunity with a hand up, not a hand out. To celebrate the power of a hand up, we want to know who's given you a hand up. A parent? Friend? Colleague? Teacher? Mentor? 📣 Share the story of how they helped you in the comments, or write your own post using #bighandup 💛 Anyone who writes a #bighandup has a chance of being featured in one of our future magazines! Comment below 👇

Who’s given you a hand up? 👉 For KSI , it’s rapper and music producer Sway For 35 years Big Issue has been helping people create opportunity with a hand up, not a hand out. In celebration of our birthday, we want to know who’s given you a hand up. A parent? Friend? Colleague? Teacher? Mentor? 📣 Share the story of how they helped you in the comments, or write your own post using #bighandup 💛 Anyone who writes a #bighandup has a chance of being featured in one of our future magazines! Comment down below 👇👇

More Fear - Stanley Donwood 👉 What’s your big issue? To celebrate 35 years of Big Issue, Grow Up Art invited 35 artists to create a piece of work to show what their big issue is. This print and many more are available to buy in our shop Buy now 👉 bigissueshop.com/collection/… This exclusive artwork has been created for Grow up’s Paste, Present, Future project, in collaboration with UNCLE. 25% will be paid to Big Issue to support people experiencing poverty in the UK. Grow up invited artists to create work based on their ‘big issue’ – all views expressed in their work belong to the artist.