The Big Issue

The Big Issue is one of Britain’s leading news and cultural magazines. Every week’s edition is packed full of original takes on the biggest issues of the day as well as interviews with the most significant figures in politics and entertainment. The Big Issue was founded 1991 to give people experiencing homelessness the opportunity to earn their own income. We continue to support hundreds of vendors across the UK and all proceeds from sales go to help anyone wanting to lift themselves out of poverty.

Into Finn air

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

‘We deliver with love and kindness’ • Sistah Stella Headley knows what it’s like to go hungry, and to be on the outside. So she created the INI Food and Wellbeing Centre, where cultural food is on the menu and everyone is welcome

Kitchen Kit Call Outs are creating a stir

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • Why end world hunger when you can drink from the fountain of youth?

YOUR LETTERS

BIRD’S WORDS • Our only hope for change is to break the inheritance of poverty

In 1985, London’s East End burst onto British TV screens as EastEnders was launched. Today, that landscape is much changed. We’ve gone on a hunt for the real Albert Square

How soaps became the soul of the nation

Residents in Tower Hamlets are fighting plans for a new Chinese Embassy on their estate. It’s an urgent David and Goliath battle that involves national security, diplomacy, heritage, human rights and even democracy itself

SELF PORTRAIT

JASON DONOVAN • A role in Neighbours led to romance with Kylie and pop stardom, but he does wonder what a film career would have looked like

A perfect match

In a dark and lonely place

‘You see the political through the microcosm of a family’

‘THE KARATE KID IS ABOUT FINDING BALANCE’

LUCY SWEET IS ON THE VERGE

Listen to your ears

Enlighten us

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Roath/Riverside Farmers’ Markets, Cardiff Saturday 9am-1pm (Roath) Sunday 9am-2pm (Riverside)