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

Forging ahead in the new space race

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The inside story of how Blair’s government almost ended rough sleeping

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER

BIRD’S WORDS

LETTERS

BINFACE SAYS IT’S TIME TO VOTE, THEN COUNT ON A FUN SUMMER

HOW SPOOF CANDIDATES BECAME A CURIOUSLY BRITISH TRADITION

HOW TO REDISCOVER FUN AFTER THE ELECTION

Setting the record straight on migration

ROWAN WILLIAMS • The former Archbishop of Canterbury wasn’t much of a teen rebel and wishes he’d been less puritanical. Despite his career highs, there’s one area in which he admits he dropped the ball

I LIKE THINGS I REMEMBER

Books

Welcome to the real Germanies

Film

Karen Gillan ‘ABUSE OF POWER IS TRUE FOR A LOT OF WORKPLACES’

LUCY SWEET IS ON THE VERGE

Music

Venue Watch

Puzzles

OUR PITCH • Big Issue vendors demand an end to poverty