Parveen Bird is a Director at the Big issue Group. She began as a volunteer helping to organise events around the 15th birthday of the Big Issue. For the 30th anniversary, she was the Co-Executive Producer of a cinema released documentary called Someone’s Daughter Someone’s Son. Prior to that Parveen was a live on-screen reporter and Producer for ITV National breakfast TV. A lack of affordable, accessible healthy food and access to a kitchen are some of the issues commonly faced by Big Issue vendors and other marginalised people. Many of the newspaper's vendors have horticultural growing skills and the Big Issue is looking to pilot a project in regenerative food growing, that will grow food and grow people.