The Big Issue is turning 20! To celebrate our departure from adolescence, we bring you stories from two crazy decades in our biggest ever edition. We travel from our beginning as “a single desk tucked away in a corner of the Brotherhood of St Laurence in inner-city Melbourne” to becoming a national organisation that only continues to grow. From a tale about the humble start of the Community Street Soccer Program, to a Vendor Support worker who has been with us since Ed#1, this issue is about celebrating, thanking and reflecting on why we’re all still doing this: to help people help themselves.