Tag: Big Issue Group

Big Issue Group calls on organisations to back a new specialist recruitment service which will support people who face barriers to sustainable employment

Stuart Mitchell

The Big Issue Group is calling on businesses to back a new UK wide recruitment service called ‘Big Issue Recruit’. The service offers people who are further from the labour market access to their desired job roles by pairing them with personal Job Coaches. In the wake of the cost-of-living crisis and record levels of poverty and inequality, there are now close to 15 million people in the UK trapped in poverty. But while unemployment has fallen to its lowest level in 30 years, with 1.26m unemployed people actively seeking…

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Big Issue Group and C&C Group join forces across mentoring, skills and access to employment opportunities as part of new three-year partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Leading drinks manufacturer and distributor C&C Group (‘C&C’) is embarking on a brand new, three-year partnership with the Big Issue Group as part of its ongoing commitment to support the communities it serves across the UK and Ireland, aiming to change lives through enterprise.  C&C already works across complex societal areas, covering homelessness, addiction, food poverty and mental health, as part of its established Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Agenda, which closely aligns with the Big Issue Group’s core mission of changing lives through enterprise. A key partnership priority will…

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Big Issue Group launches bold new five-year strategy alongside new impact goals and undergoes major rebrand

Stuart Mitchell

Big Issue Group has revealed its exciting new rebrand and ambitious five-year strategy, which will reflect the organisation’s response to the huge challenges faced by the rapidly growing number of people living in poverty across the UK. The Group has also published a comprehensive impact report detailing the impact it has had over the last 30 years. The organisation is rebranding as ‘Big Issue Group’ and launching a new mission and five-year strategy to create innovative solutions through enterprise, to unlock social and economic opportunity for the millions ofpeople trapped…

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Latest annual impact report shows mainstream social investment fund supporting the Covid-19 recovery

Stuart Mitchell

The Big Issue Group has released the seventh Annual Impact Report for the Threadneedle UK Social Bond Fund, as part of the fund’s disclosure to investors. The report assesses the degree to which the investment strategy’s impact objective to support more inclusive and sustainable development in the UK[1] has been achieved. Launched in 2014 as the UK’s first mainstream, fixed income social investment offering, the fund is a partnership between global asset management firm Columbia Threadneedle Investments and The Big Issue Group, who acts as the social advisor to the…

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