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A new tech startup allows people to fund employment training and careers advice to help homeless people in the UK

A crowdfunded film based on real-life interviews with homeless people aims to create new understanding of the issue – a shift that the younger generation in particular is embracing, says the [...]

From a ‘tap and donate’ jacket to a startup that reconnects families via social media, five projects challenging the dehumanisation of homeless people

As figures released this week show rough sleeping in England has increased for the sixth year in a row, we profile the furniture reuse schemes giving homeless people new opportunities

A new scheme aims to improve the lives of homeless people while making use of old laptops

Social enterprise Petit Miracles offers a new lease of life to furniture, and to the long-term unemployed people responsible for renovating it

A tradition started in Italy over a hundred years ago has recently re-emerged as a massive global movement of selflessness and compassion. Veronique Mistiaen reports on the ‘suspended coffee’ [...]

Answers From Big Issue will offer jobs and training for homeless people while supporting positive social projects

Open Cinema, a UK film club helping homeless and socially excluded people reconnect with society, has branched out internationally