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
Pop on the beach
THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany
Without government action to lower prices, Britain is heading for a food crisis
The Big Issue
EDITOR’S LETTER • Nice and easy does it
ACE OF CLUBS CHARITY RECEIVES FIVE-FIGURE DONATION FROM NATWEST
Rather than blaming a ‘sick note culture’, the government should take a leaf out of Big Issue Recruit’s book • BIG ISSUE RECRUIT
LETTERS
INSIDE No. 9 • As the curtain falls on the ninth deliciously dark series, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith beckon us
‘I really want Ruby Sunday to be a beam of hope’ • New Doctor Who star Millie Gibson has the universe at her feet
A class apart
LIZ CARR • Illness gave her the toughest of starts, but the actor and activist found her calling after a lightbulb moment changed her life
A TURN IN THE ROAD
Books
Marking the rebellious past
Film
Damian Barr ‘I HAVE SEATS NEAR THE DOOR SO I CAN RUN IF I NEED TO’
LUCY SWEET IS ON THE VERGE
Music
Work
Puzzles
MY PITCH • M&S, Parliament Street, York Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm