Read the text. Match sentences A–F to gaps 1–5. One sentence does not match any of the gaps.

The Big Issue

Have you ever heard of The Big Issue? 1

___________. Thirty years on, it is read by over

400,000 people in the UK. There are many different ways of helping homeless people. Some

people give them food or money. Many clever gadgets or items have been invented to help

them, too. But Roddick and Bird believed that the best way of solving homelessness was to

help homeless people to help themselves.

More than 80,000 copies of The Big Issue are sold every week. 2

___________. The poor or

homeless people who sell the magazine are running their own small businesses.

3

___________. Then, they sell them to the public for twice the price. They can keep the

money they make for themselves.

The Big Issue Foundation connects homeless people with charities and services that can

support them. It also helps them to solve the problems which caused their homelessness or

which are a result of homelessness. 4

___________. They could also be health problems like

addiction. The Foundation relies on the money from the sales of the magazine.

5

___________. As a result of Roddick and Bird’s idea, many people’s lives have been

improved.

A When more copies are sold, more money is made for the Foundation.

B It gives homeless people and people living in poverty the chance to earn money for themselves.

C They buy the magazines from the Big Issue Foundation with their own money.

D People sell it in the street to raise money for charity.

E It’s a ‘street magazine’, and it was first published by Gordon Roddick and John Bird, in 1991.

F These could be education or money problems, leading to ​