Tag: Big Issue Group

‘Rishi’s Removals’ van roams streets of Westminster as Big Issue Group launches campaign with support of the7stars calling on UK government to End Housing Insecurity for millions of low-income renters

Stuart Mitchell

In September Big Issue Group (BIG) has challenged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to ‘End Housing Insecurity Now’. BIG partnered with the7stars creative agency and staged a headline- grabbing stunt, where a van bearing the branding of ‘Rishi’s Removals’ drove up to Palace Gate at Westminster, London, in an effort to highlight the launch of a campaign calling for rights for renters and home owners in the UK. To launch the campaign, aimed at ensuring the 9 million low-income UK renters[1] can stay in their homes in the face of crippling…

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Big Issue Group opens ‘Shopfront’ in London that shines a light on magazine vendors and new ways to boost earnings in challenging times

Stuart Mitchell

The Big Issue Group (BIG) has unveiled a striking new out of home campaign, which aims to reframe the public’s perception of what it means to sell the Big Issue and to highlight the hard work of its vendors. The campaign is designed to highlight that, despite not having a traditional bricks and mortar outlet from which to sell, vendors are running mini businesses, buying and selling copies of the magazine to earn a living in order to change their lives. The mural also aims to raise awareness of a…

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Big Issue merges its frontline sales and support teams under new Community Interest Company, to help more people during cost-of-living crisis

Stuart Mitchell

The Big Issue Group has announced that it has merged its Company frontline sales operation with its Big Issue Foundation charity frontline services, into one new Community Interest Company (CIC), the Big Issue Changing Lives Community Interest Company.    Having experienced a 10% increase in vendors in 2022 and a 20% increase in vendors needing urgent support, the two organisations will bring their frontline operations together to extend the reach of Big Issue’s services to help more people, more effectively. To continue to provide the vendor services that are so critical…

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Big Issue Group reports extraordinary 58% growth in reach, as more people seek to engage with the organisation, during cost of living crisis

Stuart Mitchell

The Big Issue Group (BIG), the leading social enterprise and B-Corp, has released its 2022 Group Impact Report. The report shows that its products and services have reached 7.4 million people. A 58% increase YOY, as BIG reaches more people that are impacted by the cost of living crisis and those who want to support the people most affected by this crisis. The report also showed that the number of vendors selling the magazine increased by 10% YOY, while collective earnings for vendors rose by 38% to £3.76m. There has…

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Big Issue Group partners with Specsavers to help vendors access vital healthcare

Stuart Mitchell

The Big Issue Group (BIG) and Specsavers have announced a major new partnership which will see the company offer all Big Issue vendors free access to eyecare, as well as becoming the sole sponsor of the iconic red tabards. As part of this partnership, all Big Issue vendors will be offered a £64 Specsavers gift voucher, which will give them access to a sight test, an overall eye health ‘OCT’ scan and eyewear. In addition, all vendors will be offered free ear wax removal. Specsavers’ support of BIG is part…

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