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

A wing and a prayer

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

Air fix: how redundant airports could help the UK’s housing crisis • The idea of transforming the old Robin Hood Airport into a housing estate came second in an architectural award earlier this summer. Liam Geraghty checks in with the minds behind it to see if the idea can take off, or if there is too much baggage

THE BIG ISSUE

EDITOR’S LETTER • Living with the weight of memory

I was granted Freedom of the City, but not the freedom of the room

BIRD’S WORDS • No more sticking plasters when it comes to ending poverty

LETTERS

‘IT WAS LIKE THE PLACE WAS WAITING FOR ME’ • Three Big Issue vendors were offered the chance to step out of their urban comfort zone on a countryside retreat. Here’s how Mark, André and Easton harnessed nature to see themselves in a new light

Grilling in the name of

The Surviving Room

STEVE CRAM • When he broke the world mile record he achieved his dream, but losing his brother was the thing that changed his life forever

FAUN

Going underground

We don’t want you to save us. Just hear us

My life as a yellow Power Ranger

WILLY WONKA AND THE FEAR OF AI

SAM DELANEY IS ON HOLIDAY

We need help to nurture our next generation of northern stars

Puzzles

MY PITCH • M&S, Lemon Quay, Truro Monday-Saturday 8.30am-3pm