Tag: Big Issue

LinkedIn helps Big Issue vendors reconnect with customers online

Stuart Mitchell

The Big Issue and LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, have partnered on a pilot scheme to support nine of the magazine’s vendors who have lost their livelihoods and their sense of community as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The partnership, concepted and managed by FCB Inferno, harnesses the incredible power of Linkedin’s network to support the Big Issue vendors, who have been suffering due to the effects of COVID. Footfall on the high streets where many of them ply their trade is much lower, and many of their…

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Big Issue Partners With Virgin Media To Bring Festive Cheer To Street Vendors This Christmas

Stuart Mitchell

Virgin Media will be donating £25,000 to Big Issue vendors across the country this Christmas, as part of its festive charity giveaway. Spreading Christmas cheer directly from its customers to Big Issue vendors, daily winners of Virgin Media’s ’25 show-stopping giveaways’ draw will receive a £1,000 cash prize to be donated to a Big Issue vendor in their local community. Starting from 1st December and running for 25 days, £1,000 will be gifted each day, with Virgin Media working in collaboration with the Big Issue team to connect to vendors…

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Big Issue unveils star-studded Ambassador line-up as Christopher Eccleston, George Clarke, Daniel Mays and Sophie Winkleman call on public to support vulnerable vendors in time of crisis

Stuart Mitchell

The Big Issue (TBI) has announced the appointment of Christopher Eccleston, George Clarke, Daniel Mays and Sophie Winkleman as official Big Issue Brand Ambassadors. The stars of the screen have started their ambassadorships by calling on the public to urgently support the organisation and its network of vendors at a time of crisis by subscribing, buying a gift subscription from your local vendor or donating to an urgent Christmas Appeal. Following the Government announcement that England would enter lockdown on Thursday 5th November, TBI has had to ask more than…

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Big Issue launches urgent Christmas Appeal as vendor sales drop by 40% UK-wide

Stuart Mitchell

The Big Issue (TBI) has launched an urgent Christmas Appeal, calling on the public to support the organisation to be there for its 1,600 magazine vendors  by buying from your local vendor, subscribing or donating online. TBI has reported a projected shortfall of up to £100k each week for both vendors and the organisation in the six weeks leading up to Christmas. The potential loss is based on this years’ cover price, and the assumption that sales will remain 40% down year on year, as they have been since vendors…

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Big Issue launches campaign that highlights support for sellers in time of crisis

Stuart Mitchell

On World Homeless Day, The Big Issue (TBI) has launched a digital campaign to highlight the support that Big Issue sellers receive from the Frontline team at the organisation in a bid to help boost sales of the magazine. The Big Issue, which offers homeless and vulnerably housed people across the UK a means by which to earn a legitimate income, took the decision to safeguard its network of sellers and the public by asking that they stop selling on streets across the whole of the UK with immediate effect…

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