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Give a little: Big Issue North gift guide, Christmas and beyond

Give a little: Big Issue North gift guide, Christmas and beyond

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Give a little: Big Issue North gift guide   Blackpool Social Club is proud to support Big Issue North, a magazine bought and sold by the homeless and vulnerable housed vendors who choose to work, not beg. Normally Christmas shoppers would purchase a copy making the festive season their most lucrative time of year, but this year with many of them forced off the streets, you can support them without leaving the comfort of your own home. From subscriptions to the weekly and glossy quarterly magazines to handcrafted and recycled jewellery made from unsold issues, Big Issue North’s Bronte Schiltz…
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A Big Issue: Publishing and the pandemic

A Big Issue: Publishing and the pandemic

Big Issue North's deputy editor explains why the magazine is supporting Blackpool Social Club, and why you should support the magazine during an especially difficult time for its vendors Ten years is long enough to do any one thing so when, in the week that marked 10 years since I first wrote Big Issue North’s listings, I sat down to the familiar routine of drawing together the weekly cultural highlights across the region and there were none, I wish I could say it was a welcome change.  Instead, it signalled the end of our social and cultural calendars for a…
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