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Big Issue
United Kingdom
Registrace 7. 07. 2011
Want to end poverty in the UK? Join us & let’s create work opportunities and a positive impact for those that need it most.
The Big Issue provides the latest news about homelessness, housing, poverty prevention, environmental issues, and work and employment. We've got explainers that tell you what you need to know. Policy change campaigns for you to support. And opinions from the streets, including Big Issue vendors' stories and expertise.
We also bring you culture. Interviews with the most exciting people in the public eye, music from top artists, book recommendations, and celebrities campaigning for a better world.
The Big Issue is a weekly current affairs & entertainment magazine sold by people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Vendors buy copies for £2 and sell them to the public for £4.
Sign up for The Big Issue newsletter: subs.bigissue.com/TBI/NEW2023/
Subscribe to The Big Issue here: www.bigissue.com/changing-lives-through-enterprise/
The Big Issue provides the latest news about homelessness, housing, poverty prevention, environmental issues, and work and employment. We've got explainers that tell you what you need to know. Policy change campaigns for you to support. And opinions from the streets, including Big Issue vendors' stories and expertise.
We also bring you culture. Interviews with the most exciting people in the public eye, music from top artists, book recommendations, and celebrities campaigning for a better world.
The Big Issue is a weekly current affairs & entertainment magazine sold by people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Vendors buy copies for £2 and sell them to the public for £4.
Sign up for The Big Issue newsletter: subs.bigissue.com/TBI/NEW2023/
Subscribe to The Big Issue here: www.bigissue.com/changing-lives-through-enterprise/
"My life was completely chaotic for a long time, I'd never been in an opticians in my life"
From chaos to clarity: Follow Clive and Mihaela's journey as they receive eye care from Specsavers as part of our life-enhancing partnership. "My life was completely chaotic for a long time, I'd never been in an opticians in my life". #Ad #VisionForChange
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Big Issue Group Impact 2023
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When most people think about the impact of the Big Issue, they think of vendors selling magazines on the streets and we are immensely proud of this. Last year alone we supported thousands of people to earn a legitimate income by selling the magazine, earning a collective income of £4 million. But, with 15 million people in the UK trapped in poverty, our work is bigger and has never been more im...
'With poor sight you can feel intensely vulnerable'
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Life on the streets is dangerous - and much more so for people with poor eyesight. Big Issue vendor Jack Osborne-Richardson tells us how getting proper eye care and glasses through our Specsavers partnership has been literally transformational
Big Issue Invest Power Up London Accelerator Programme: Wander Wild Forest School
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London-based early-stage organisations, are you ready to ramp up your social impact? Hear from Zainab Omokhe, Co-founder of Wander Wild Forest School, as she shares her experience in the Big Issue Invest Power Up London Accelerator Programme Cohort 1. Funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, this programme offers intensive support, training, and the possibility of up t...
Jason Donovan interview: The Music That Made Me (Kylie, New Order, Joseph, Midnight Oil)
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“Music,” says Jason Donovan on a video chat to The Big Issue from a plush hotel room, “is the closest us humans have to magic.” Donovan was already a soap heartthrob in Neighbours when he started weaving his own musical magic. Watching the rise of his on- and off-screen girlfriend, one Kylie Minogue, he realised he could have it all - pursuing both his love of acting and of music. Donovan has j...
Tom Walker AKA Jonathan Pie’s Top Political Moments of 2023
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Tom Walker has turned reacting to political moments into an art form through his comic creation Jonathan Pie. He joins the Big Issue to review 2023 in politics. Read the full article on bigissue.com. See Tom Walker on tour in 2024 from Tuesday 23rd January - Sunday 24th March 2024. Tickets on sale now www.jonathanpie.com/ Support The Big Issue by buying a magazine from one of our vendors www.bi...
About the Big Issue Group
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Big Issue Group brings together our media, investment and service initiatives under a shared mission to create innovative solutions through enterprise, to unlock social and economic opportunity for the 14.5m people in the UK living in poverty to earn, learn and thrive. #BigIssue #BigIssueInvest #BigIssueRecruit #SocialImpact #SocialEnterprise
Big Issue vendor André Rostant's song Big Issue Ballad (Dignity)
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London Big Issue vendor André Rostant has recorded a song he hopes will become a 'Big Issue anthem'. Big Issue Ballad (Dignity) was recorded in November 2023 with the help of producer Allegro and homelessness charity Under One Sky.
Change a vendor's life this Christmas and beyond
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Help us support Big Issue Vendors like Ian and Maria to work this Winter ❄️ and make a better life for themselves in the future 💹 Supporting is simple. Buy a copy of your local vendor’s magazine every week, or if you don't have one, buy a Big Issue Winter Support Kit here ▶️ www.bigissue.com/christmas/ #bigissue #christmas #support #endpoverty #poverty
Lol Tolhurst interview: The Cure founder on The Music That Made Me (inc David Bowie, Pink Floyd)
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Lol Tolhurst was just five years old when he met classmate Robert Smith at Catholic primary school in Crawley. Soon fast friends, they first played on stage together aged 14 at a school end-of-year show. Just a few years later, the pair (along with Martin Creasy) would release their first single as The Cure. Intellectual and emotional, as adept at heartrending, rain-swept guitar epics as perfec...
David Duchovny interview: The X-Files star on The Music That Made Me
zhlédnutí 738Před 10 měsíci
The Music That Made Me - The Big Issue's video series exploring the influences of your favourite artists - is back! And for our first episode of season 2, we're joined by The X-Files star, novelist and musician David Duchovny. Between his era-defining role as Fox Mulder in The X-Files, ahead-of-its-time portrayal of trans FBI officer Denise Bryson in Twin Peaks, and Golden Globe-winning turn as...
Think Forward
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ThinkForward works with young people who have mild to moderate learning disabilities to connect them with employment opportunities. There are currently 350 young people on the programme. Investment from Big Issue Invest, helped the organisation support young people through the pandemic, adjust its delivery model, and work with employers to create support pathways to enable young people to prosp...
World Heart Beat Music Academy
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Big Issue Invest, invested in the World Heart Beat Academy so they could move to their fantastic new location in Vauxhall, London. The investment meant not only could provide more children with access to high-quality music tuition and equipment, but they could also develop new income streams through their new cafe, facility hire, and concerts. Thank you World Heart Beat CEO James Gero and the r...
Citroën & Big Issue's coast-to-coast EV road trip: Can electric vehicles spark a travel revolution?
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Citroën & Big Issue's coast-to-coast EV road trip: Can electric vehicles spark a travel revolution?
Paapa Essiedu reveals his acting heroes on The Big Issue's Quickfire Q&A
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Paapa Essiedu reveals his acting heroes on The Big Issue's Quickfire Q&A
Homewards: Prince William’s five-year project to prevent homelessness
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Homewards: Prince William’s five-year project to prevent homelessness
Citroën Ami: the tiny electric vehicle driving change with The Big Issue
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Citroën Ami: the tiny electric vehicle driving change with The Big Issue
Classical pianist RIOPY says you can learn this anxiety-busting tune in less than an hour
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Classical pianist RIOPY says you can learn this anxiety-busting tune in less than an hour
James O'Brien, Colin Murray and Melanie Sykes sell The Big Issue magazine for National Vendor Week
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James O'Brien, Colin Murray and Melanie Sykes sell The Big Issue magazine for National Vendor Week
#Ad Meet Chris, delivering the Big Issue to vendors across London #DrivingChangeForGood
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#Ad Meet Chris, delivering the Big Issue to vendors across London #DrivingChangeForGood
10 cheap school holiday activities to do with kids
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10 cheap school holiday activities to do with kids
#Ad How Big Issue Group's partnership with Citroën is changing lives for drivers and vendors
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#Ad How Big Issue Group's partnership with Citroën is changing lives for drivers and vendors
How Big Issue Group's partnership with Citroën is changing lives for drivers and vendors #Ad
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How Big Issue Group's partnership with Citroën is changing lives for drivers and vendors #Ad
They are very good people❤❤
Bob❤❤❤😢
Tan bello como los podemos amar tantob
Wonderful BOB. ❤😊 I have only had your book for a month, but, I Love Bob, so much. I have now bought All the Bob books, I Love Bob, so much. & his dvd, too, now. Fantastic book, of Bob & you on the streets of London. ❤😊 xxx
You can’t beat the cat distribution system.
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Lieber Bob!Ich werde Dich nie vergessen!Greetings from Germany!
Always absolutely loved 'The Whole of the Moon' - it's a special song that really moves me and it's wonderful to 'meet' the guy who wrote it. Also amazing to find that his early influences were, in many cases, the same songs I was listening to myself as a kid, back in the 1960s.
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It's a tragedy what happened, with Bob being killed, and James's life has gone spiralling downwards since. It's a real shame he wasn't given good financial advice. Where did all his money go??
*We love James and Bob!!!* ❤❤❤
Bod is unforgetable!!!❤❤❤ *AMAZING Bob!!!❤❤❤* Beautiful, adorable cat!!!❤❤❤ Bob was unique!!!❤❤❤
What a lovely memorial for such a sweet, loving soul. R.I.P. Bob. Blessing to you, James. You are a kind, gentle soul.
Well done for Glen appearing on The Big Issue, I didnt realise the Big Issue had a CZcams channel, now I've subbed.
Love
bello gato
Been crying rn😭😭 can't give my cat the best life they must have😭
Heartwarming story🐈⬛🐈⬛❤
One of the most amazing voices, and a deep, generous, loving soul driving it all ❤
Zero empathy. The more given the more they appear. Funny that. You get out of society what you put in.
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😢😢when i came to know that Bob,,is no more in this world a stream of tears flowed from my eyes today when I'm looking at Bob's,,memorial I'm crying and thinking that i wish i could go there to see his beautiful memorial Bob ,,Rest and Peace,, for a beautiful loyal Angel cat like you and you're a Holy Soul we will never forget you dear Bob,,,love you so much..🐱🐱😥😥😥💕💕❤❤🙏🙏🐾🐾
Bob foi um anjinho de 4 patinhas, que sem falar nada, mudou vidas. Bob deixou um legado, muitos ensinamentos e inspiração para todos. Gratidão pelo Bob e por James que o acolheu com carinho e proteção.Bob será sempre inesquecível.
9th doctor
Love this man. His conception how he feels and understands music is like no one else's.
He hammers trump but sits with this creature Dont see you running to see her now ehh SILENCE What a dick
Maybe that was his mother
I feel his sadness.
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I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be homeless it must be awful
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It is not so much the airbnb but that the Cameron government deliberately killed the private letting market off (in order to increase the number of houses for buyers) by making letting unaffordable for landlords. I have seen what happened with Ipswich: In Ipswich there is no airbnb as it is not a tourist destination. When the Tories started in 2010, there were very affordable Victorian and Edwardian terraced homes everywhere, like something around 450-550 pcm for a 2-3 bedroom property with garden, kitchen and bathroom. On the nestoria site you could find literally hundreds of this sort of properties, and when you walked through town, there were "to let" signs all over the place. About a decade later, there were much fewer of these houses, and they cost around 1000 quid a month, how come the price has about doubled within a decade? Just look up changes in stamp duty and buy to let tax changes with David Cameron.
just watched the film and its amazing that beacuse of the cat "Bob" the homeless man was called Sir and for him it's the other side of the world or life that he never gets or experienced and because of bob he was called "Sir"
Tragically James lost all his money and was homeless again. Now living on a houseboat. Seems he didn't have good financial advice, and knew some unpleasant humans.
well done. well deserved.
Bob will be with you in spirit wherever you go james .this memorial is so beautiful and touching.sending love ❤❤
I was a Big Issue vendor onnand off from June 1996 until April 2018.
I sold that edition back in 2017. I was a Big Issue vendor on and off from June 1996 until April 2018.
I took a pilgrimage from India to visit Bob on 3rd July 2024. I also bought two books written by Bowen from the Waterstones, just behind Bob. I hope it helps him. He needs a third chance, it seems...A fulfilling life occasion for me.
Sadly James doesn't benefit from the book sales it seems.... The Ghost writer did. It was such a shame, as I assumed James would never have to worry about money again, and would be safely housed. Bob's loss was a tragedy. Allegedly he got out of a window onto the road. The Driver of the car has never come forward. Bob is a very special Cat, a one in a Million. Some animals are extremely special, and Bob was one of these. ♥
Well gosh! isn't the voices of pop culture always what they're supposed to be, instead of genuine...
Good on him!
It's been 4 years today it still hurts a lot and I'm so sorry for James! But Bob has been immortalised by his memorial and in 100 years everyone will still fall in love with James+Bob and their adventures together <3 Love to you, James <3
Que linda conmemoración, por siempre Bob
Brought tears to my eyes, he was so remarkable, one in a million. I'm glad there will be a memorial for him. 💜
Japan has Hachiko the loyal dog, and England has Bob the life changing cat ❤ Hope England recognizes Bob as Japan do with Hachi ❤
I will google Hachi now.....Oh that is so sad...a wonderful Dog ❤ 🇯🇵 🐕
Unfortunately James relapsed but he’s picking himself upb
Geez, he's lookin more like his old man as he gets older.
I cried with the true story, I immediately saw the movie.. rest in peace Bob, Greetings from Mexico
What a load of rubbish. Global warming and obvious con and he still believes that Oswald shot Kennedy....
I love you bobbbb...I have a book about you...for me you are not just a cat but you have become part of the family and even become one of my body parts. When I read news about you my tears always fall. I'm from Indonesia, I really love you, Bob
Փառք Աստծո որ ԱՍՏՎԱԾ ՍԵՐ է ստեղծել ու դրել մարդկանց սրտերում։ Իսկ կենդանիները մեզ մարդկանցը ավելի մարդկային են դարձնում❤