John Bird, Baron Bird
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John Anthony Bird, Baron Bird MBE is a British social entrepreneur, author and life peer.
Official portrait of Lord Bird crop 2
Big Issue vendors, Mark Siequien and Harry Bowyer, being presented with National Extension College bursaries by Bird (November 2017).
A Big Issue seller on Haymarket, Norwich (November 2019).
Bird at the launch of the Big Society network at 10 Downing Street (July 2010).
The Big Issue
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The Big Issue is a British weekly street newspaper and social enterprise founded in September 1991 by John Bird and Gordon Roddick. It is sold by people experiencing homelessness or financial insecuri
John Bird, Baron Bird
…John Anthony Bird, Baron Bird MBE (born 30 January 1946) is a British social entrepreneur, author and life peer. He co-founded The Big Issue, a weekly street newspaper sold by vendors who are largely homeless or vulnerably housed, which has surpassed 200 million copies in sales since 1991…
The Big Issue
A seller of The Big Issue in London in 2005
The Big Issue for sale in Japan, 2017