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

Going in Seine

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • Cheer up, it might happen

BIRD’S WORDS • Government future planning appears to be for the birds

LETTERS

THE BIG ISSUE SUMMER SURVIVAL GUIDE

HOW SPECSAVERS ARE HELPING VENDORS SEE AND FEEL SEEN • Our partnership with the leading opticians and audiologists is about more than just free sight and hearing tests, it’s about treating every member of the community with dignity and respect

‘Money should be handed out Robin Hood-style to poor people all day long’ • Rob Delaney stars in Deadpool & Wolverine, in cinemas this week. And he was – genuinely – thrilled to talk to Big Issue about elections, blockbuster movie sets, saving the NHS, and the serious business of being a piece of handsome furniture

Ozwald Boateng, If You Must

DAME LAURA KENNY • As a teenager, the UK’s most-decorated female Olympian was painfully shy at school, but down at the cycling track she showed everyone who was boss

MAKE THEM STOP by Aaron Little

Books

The enduring mystery of Mallory

The Fringe

Chuck Chuck Baby ‘DON’T WRITE US OFF. GIVE US THE CHANCE TO TELL THESE STORIES’

LUCY SWEET IS ON THE VERGE

Music

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Playfair Steps, The Mound, Edinburgh Every day 8am-6pm