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

Georgia on my mind

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER

BIRD’S WORDS

LETTERS

Behind the door of this ordinary-looking house is the most important new museum collection in the UK • It’s taken the Museum of Homelessness 10 years to find a home. As they settle in to their new North London base, co-founders Jess and Matt Turtle tell Big Issue how the move indoors brings art, activism and the chance to do museums better all under one roof

‘History judges us on how we treat those who are most vulnerable’ • New Netflix drama Eric tackles big issues with a little help from an enormous blue monster puppet. Benedict Cumberbatch, Gaby Hoffmann, McKinley Belcher III and writer Abi Morgan tell us how

SEA CHANGE

ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH • After studying law and seeing Northern Ireland’s Troubles close up, a competition win led to a life-changing career in writing

NEW RIVER IN CLERKENWELL

Books

We need to talk about Nero

Film

‘I ALWAYS WANT TO EXIST IN A DIFFERENT GENRE, A DIFFERENT WORLD’ • Anjana Vasan on getting the band back together for We Are Lady Parts series two, featuring guest stars Malala Yousafzai and Meera Syal

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

Music

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Abbey Church, Bath Monday-Saturday, 10am-3pm