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A Brief History A BRIEF 92,000 people have sold The HISTORY Big Issue In response to the growing number of rough sleepers on the streets of London… More than In the past 25 200 million years vendors have • Launched by John Bird & Gordon copies of the earned £115 million Roddick in September 1991 magazine sold • A3 monthly publication – sold 30,000 copies every month • To provide legitimate income for the homeless and vulnerably housed • Self respect and order 3,700 new vendors • Remains alone in providing walk through our work of its kind doors every year Three years of ABC increase 2015, 2016, 2017 Up to 2018 Increase of 7.5% over that period to 83073 copies sold per week At this high point, we realised we needed to move to build for the next five years We began the process in summer 2017. Moved production inhouse to the Glasgow editorial office, the main editorial office for the UK. Previously this had been outsourced in London Hired a social Hired FIVE new members Hired a media editor of production team. digital editor Worked on three prong attack Making the Rebuilding Building a whole paper edition digital offering new contact future ready publishing element THE THE BIG ISSUE IDENTITY Essence of the outsider, something far from the MAGAZINE establishment, political and dogged, challenging, compassionate and a voice for those without a voice. Funny, not fusty From January 2018 we began overhaul RESEARCH Core DNA to remain Did deep dive research, worked with Latimer Group asking younger readers across Britain what they really liked about The Big Issue, what they didn’t like, what was missing and what would help turn digital natives into purchasers of the paper product Started to seed different stories through our website to see what connected with readers. We registered some trends – activism were cutting through, as were pieces on food, particularly around production, waste and access. Tech, especially stories about tech that could positively impact on the lives of those outside the mainstream, were being widely read. Used the learned knowledge of the team to come up with new content ideas around key pillars, and ruthlessly bin what wasn’t working Led by new art director Ross Lesley-Bayne, we made radical changes to the look OVERHAUL Kept key bankers – vendor led content, Letter to My Younger Self, literacy elements This week on… Damon Albarn and Paul Simonon Teenage nature enthusiast Kabir EU must be joking... has the from supergroup The Good, The Kaul has mapped all London’s humble British veggie burger EDITOR’S LETTER What to do this week in England and beyond BIGISSUE.COM Bad & The Queen lament Brexit green spaces. He explains why had its chips? platform. Emission statement the big list. I noted some of the pages of ideas in The Big Issue [April 22-28]. fact/fiction. Old news, truthfully retold Your views on the big issues I guess every idea to reduce greenhouse emissions has different groups who are for or against, thinking they are not ‘fair’ to The Arches everyone. How about an emissions rationing policy whereby Eat badly for a good cause THIS WEEK WE ASKED YOU... in National Doughnut Week Watch some every individual is allocated a number of emission units per cash grab is 01 Scoff all the ring-shaped fried giant-killing Cats kill half a million month. Food, fuel and holidays would have labelling according Can watching seven seconds of a Marvel dough delicacies you like this week – as long as you 07 documentaries birds a week, ruffling to their emissions. Individuals would no longer be able to eat a scandal. We buy them from a participating vendor, you’ll be at the Right Now twitchers’ feathers and beef, take flights or refuel their vehicle without considering its supporting the important work of brain injury charity Film Festival prompting the Royal effect on the climate change. won’t keep quiet film cure you of arachnophobia? The Children’s Trust. Bakers, coffee shops, offices and Led by The Lonely Battle of Thomas Parks conservation Like many measures it is unfair if the same scheme is not educational establishments are taking part, making Reid, Feargal Ward’s David-and- officer to call for moggies adopted by other countries. An even more unpopular measure and selling as many sweet treats as they can, striving Goliath tale of one solitary Irish to be kept inside. So are would be compulsory birth control to reduce the world’s to top last year’s £34,000 fundraising tally. farmer’s fight to protect his ancestral the claws out for cats? population and consumption to 19th-century figures. Not doing hame on them. Shame on them all. thechildrenstrust.org.uk/national-doughnut-week lands from a US tech giant, Right anything risks sending our planet into a heat/cold of extremes Last year, Network Rail sold off some of its property portfolio HOW IT WAS TOLD Now’s no-filler programme of five that would only support a small percentage of the present for £1.46bn. This moved it from public ownership to private. It’s hard to escape the all-consuming power I think we should keep our population, living in caves and underground. S When this deal was in the offing it became clear that it would hard-hitting documentaries is of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, especially all about fighting the power and cats indoors/in secure runs a) Peter Spurgeon, Bournemouth have a profound impact on the work and livelihoods of thousands of when Avengers: Endgame is currently inequality in the modern world. to protect wildlife and b) to people who for years had been tenants of Network Rail. They had taken dominating in cinemas. Rio Cinema, London and Tyneside protect them. poor locations, mostly in railway arches, 5,476 arches across Britain, You’ll see plenty of belief-defying antics from Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, Kati Jenkins, Facebook places largely unfancied and unused; they made them sing, grew superheroes on the big screen but recent reports Sniff out some fun Keeping things in proportion businesses in them and lives out of them. Mechanics, small shops, at the interactive May 6-12; rightnowfilmfestival.org are suggesting even greater feats are possible. The demise of the bird Regarding Brexit Britain [March 25-31], it is possible that latterly micro-breweries. Working people making a living and building The claim is that watching a seven-second clip of creepy crawlies from 02 festival for dogs population is due to the change Brexit could have been avoided if a quota system had been communities. Small but vital. The leases they had were relatively cheap, Synonymous with huge shows by bad Spider-Man or Ant-Man films can rid a fear of insects in real life. in farming, hedgerows are no put in place as other EU countries have done. The fears that because they weren’t desirable at first. boys of rock from Led Zeppelin to Oasis, The Mirror Online opted for “Watching just seven seconds of Spider- more. Trees cut down to make Blazing a trail fuelled Brexit were the continual crisis in the NHS, the housing But Network Rail needed to plug a hole in their budgets and realised Man can help people cure a fear of SPIDERS”. Knebworth House for a change welcomes Browse The Big Issue Sabrina went from way for housing and roads. Cole Miles situation and the decline in services in general while trying to that they had an asset worth trading. So on the quiet, at first, they tried to good boys galore for Dogfest – a weekend Shop collection for The claim comes from a study published in the Frontiers in Psychiatry Pollution and other factors. homelessness to accommodate over 250,000 more people a year. Why wasn’t sell them off. The traders, smelling a rat, mobilised. They suspected that of activities for canines and canine 08 World Fair Trade Day journal by Israeli researchers from Ariel University and Bar-Ilan University. Marie Morgan, Facebook senior firefighter this thought through? following the sell-off, rents would shoot up and they’d be out of business. owners alike. Bond with your four-legged Saturday May 11 marks an The story reached publications all over the globe, with the New York APRIL 15-21 The need for labour in various industries was due to the fact And all the local communities would suffer. They formed Guardians of friends with Hay Bale Racing, the Great international festival of Illustration: Post also insisting that Peter Parker’s Hollywood exploits held the key to What, no! No animal locked that there are not enough trained personnel in this country, but the Arches, a tenants’ pressure group united to ask Network Rail to think Dog Walk, the Fun Dog Show and Doga, events celebrating Fair SABRINA COHEN-HATTON, THE BIG ISSUE SAVED ME banishing arachnophobia or myrmecophobia, the fear of ants. up. Like population control, why does a nation of 67 million people need to poach so many again. The deal was overseen by the Department of Transport, under which is yoga for dogs. Didn’t know that’s Trade and its contribution to The Daily Mail stopped short of swinging into a full cure, instead reduction is the solution. skilled workers from countries that are more in need of them? Chris Grayling. So what could possibly go wrong… a thing? You do now. sustainable development insisting that watching a flick could “curb” the symptoms. Heather Scholey, Facebook Sabrina’s an inspiration India, for example, where medical needs must be paramount.
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