The document provides information about homelessness and The Big Issue Foundation charity. It states that there are approximately 2,200 people sleeping rough in England every night. The Big Issue Foundation helps vendors of The Big Issue magazine with expenses like travel costs for housing appointments, new shoes for job interviews, and passports to open bank accounts. Vendors pay 20% of the costs themselves through savings from selling the magazine, while the Foundation pays the remaining 80% through fundraising.

2. One minute bed challenge
You will get an umbrella,
One minute bed challenge
a cardboard box,
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2 bin bags
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and a newspaper.
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Your bed needs to be dry, warm,
comfortable and safe.

3. How many people
sleep rough in
England every night?
100?
500?
1,000?
2,200
every
night

6. Big Issue vendors
buy the magazine
for £1.25 and sell
it for £2.50

8. The Big Issue Foundation is a
charity which helps vendors
pay for things that will improve
their lives.
Michael needed his train fare to
attend a housing appointment.
Chris needed new shoes
for a job interview.
Anna needed a passport so
she could open a bank account.

9. Vendors pay 20% through money they save
from selling The Big Issue. The Foundation pays
80% with money it raises through fundraising.

10. Bryan Rowe, Big Issue Vendor

12. Photographs: © The Big Issue Foundation, Sundeip Arora, Phillip Bramble, Jamie Chase, Notandi:Spacebirdy, Iancu Oaida
Words and Ideas: Claire Bogue Design: Cathy Hull
Registered charity no. 1049077