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.

Art in action

THE DISPATCH

The Big Issue

Starmer is facing troubled times, but government ineptness is nothing new

WELCOME TO THE CREATIVE HEALTH SPECIAL: THIS IS CRITICAL HOPE

Why arts are the must-do activity of summer 2026

Creativity is a way forward

THE JUICY DETAILS • We asked the visual artist and cover creator some questions about art. His answers were pithy

What happened to you? How childhood trauma shapes the brain – and the future of trauma-informed care

CREATIVITY CAN GIVE PATIENTS A BETTER OUTLOOK

‘WE HAVE LOST HOPE’ • Thahmina Begum, co-chair of the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance and Simon Opher MP, co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Creative Health, discuss how we find our way again

Policy making on stage

Access to the arts is not a luxury. It’s a necessity

Talk into action – the importance of increasing diversity in creative health

Finding Rat Park – a way through the maze of recovery

Five things I wish I’d known • Three leading creatives from the arts and homelessness community share five things they wish they’d known before embarking on their careers

Create your own space

Pause. Breathe. Colour *

Kiln

Leap of faith

Super fly

LUCY SWEET ON TV

BIG Kids • ISSUES / IDEAS / IMAGINATION

Puzzles

MY PITCH HAMISH SCOTT, 68 • OUTSIDE VISION EXPRESS OR BOOTS, ABERGAVENNY EVERY DAY 7AM-3PM