News & Resources

As Big Issue Invest celebrates achieving £100m of social investments during its first 20 years, executive chair Mark Porter reflects on the UK social investor’s journey so far and the challenges that lie ahead – for the organisation and for the social investment movement as a whole.

In partnership with Durham Cricket, Handcrafted’s Engage Hub were able to take some of their Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children to enjoy a summer of cricket at Seat Unique Riverside in Chester-le-Street

Handcrafted selected as recipient of funding to research new models for housing Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASCs).

Big Issue highlight our work with homeless people.

Our CEO explains the impact of a £150,000 investment into our housing.

Handcrafted win a prestigious award for our work in the area of welfare.

Dan, our CEO, is interviewed on the role of social enterprise in the homeless sector.

Social and Sustainable Capital Invest £2m to grow our housing and training provisions.

The Salvation Army visit our woodworking and training workshops.

A report on the impact we saw in the lives of our trainees from January to June 2025, featuring some incredible stories of new opportunities and transformation!

A report of our impact between July and December 2024.

Our trustees report and financial accounts for year ending 31st December 2023.

Our trustees report and financial accounts for year ending 31st December 2022.

Introducing our custom-built impact measure - the Empowerment Matrix.

Our trustees report and financial accounts for year ending 31st December 2021.

There is such a clear need and repeated call for us to be doing more of the good work that we have seen over the last eleven years. This plan sets out our core values and vision for seeing more people turn their own lives around.