SANJAV.

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SANJAV:

His Telling Interview of

Behind-The-Scenes At The Big Issue.

By Tom Yomogi Yuri.

Edited By Uncle Monty.

Story Graphics By Alex Albion.

Part 1 of 2.

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Questions By Tom Yomogi Yuri = TYY.

Answers By Sanjav = San.

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TYY: What is it you do at the Big Issue?

San: I was a Voluntary Coordinator in Covent Garden.

TYY: What does that mean exactly?

San: It means we managed the Covent Garden area. We

 distribute the magazines…actually I did more than that…I…

for a while I was a Roving Coordinator which essentially

meant I was a Coordinator anywhere in London. I used

to meet the printing truck in Vauxhall at 5.30am and then

 deliver the magazines to all the various distribution points and

then make my way to Covent Garden and thereby undertake

 my duties as a Voluntary Coordinator in Covent Garden which

 was essentially training Green Badges, they’d come to us and

 also we’ve got obviously a mainstay of people who are

selling magazines – they’d come to us to buy their magazines.

It’s largely selling magazines but also ensuring that people

 within the Covent Garden catchment area adhere to the

Big Issue code of conduct. That was what I did.

TYY: And did you get paid for this job?

San: Did I get paid for it? The official answer is no but the

answer to you, my dear, is yes, of course, I wouldn’t

have done it otherwise.

TYY: How much?

San: You asked me this before. Erm. There was travel, there

 was phones, so there were benefits. There was lunch and

then. There were so many hidden benefits, it’s hard, really hard

 to explain but in terms of cash…erm…it varied but not a great

 variance, but…about £300 a week.

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Sanjav: Delivering The Latest Edition of The Rotten Big Issue.

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TYY: Was that presented as being a cash payment of £300

a week or did they say expenses of £300 a week?

San: Do you know what I honestly don’t know.

TYY: Did you receive that as a weekly lump sum?

San: No, daily.

TYY: So you got £60 a day?

San: No I got £60…no £100 on a Monday and it kind

of varied from there…£100 on a Monday, £40, £40

 and it would vary.

TYY: And where did that money come from?

San: From the takings [laughs] from the magazines

 in Covent Garden. We’d generate that money

 ourselves on the street.

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The Big Issue's Prick Peter Bird.

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TYY: Err can you explain that…the process of the money for me?

San: Well, all the people had to buy the magazines so they’d

come to us and the cost price to the public say at present is £2,

to vendor who is selling the magazine is £1, with sales upwards

on occasions of 1,600 magazines…quite rare…but 1,200,

1,300 was about the average so we’d be generating say between

 £800 and £1,000 coz would take her money… was also a

Coordinator…there was three Coordinators, all on the same

sort of package and we’d all take our money directly

from the takings on the day.

TYY: So these figures you’re talking about are the daily figures?

San: Which?

TYY: The…err, 1,300 issues?

San: Yeah, yeah, yeah…err…obviously it fluctuates quite

 a lot, given the weather, given the season, given…given err

 holidays…and some other things. I think…the minimum at the

 moment or when I left…I didn’t leave voluntarily by the way,

 I was asked to leave…err, but the minimum would have been

 800 per day but the year before that…and I was often covering

 Covent Garden on my own…err when I say often – frequently…

err…1,200, 1,300 up to 1,500 per day.

TYY: And how much of the…so are you saying that you

collected the Issues for Covent Garden from the distribution

centre, then you sold them in…to individual vendors in Covent

Garden and how much of the money then from those Issues

that were sold actually went back to the Big Issue head office?

San: What there was left after we’d taken our wages.

TYY: Which would be what on average?

San: Well, on the Monday was slightly different things

like I would do delivery. I’m not quite sure what was

 on but we’d take our…we were all on phone contracts

which were quite nice phone contracts, we’d all get travel

allowances, lunch allowances, other gratuities which I

can’t really mention, but strange little things would

 be thrown into the hat.

TYY: Like what [laughs] come on…we can edit it out later?

San: No, no, you don’t have to…theatre tickets…err…

tickets to the opera, theatre tickets…err…

TYY: Where did they come from?

San: They came directly from the office.

They used to send them over to us.

TYY: Where did the office get them from?

San: No idea. Absolutely none.

TYY: So…we’re saying like…what…what percentage

of the sales that you made in Covent Garden, what

percentage of that actually went back to head office?

San: About. I make this a rough estimate. My maths is

usually better…it’s a B right now…but…about 80%.

TYY: So you’d take 20% and 80% would go back?

San: Roughly. I mean I could do the maths again in a

 minute but, yeah, round about that.

TYY: And were head office aware that you were

taking a cut of the money?

San: Oh fully. That was how it was sanctioned.

That’s how we were paid.

TYY: Err…can you give an example of…err…anyone in any

position of authority that you’ve had a direct conversation

with about it?

San: Everybody knew. That’s how the Coordinators

 got paid. It’s not a great mystery.

TYY: Okay [laughs].

San: It’s still going on now.

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The Big Issue's Pigface Anthony John Bird, 65.

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TYY: So [laughs] I mean how…I want an example of not

just ‘everyone’ but give me an example of a conversation

 that you’ve had with a named person. How

high up would people know that?

San: The CEO, Steven (Robertson), would know that. Every-

body from the very top of the organisation (John Bird) down

(to Peter Bird). Obviously there’s a chap now called who’s

 the London Distribution Coordinator, he manages Covent

 Garden from there, we manage it on the streets, so they

 separate street based services and those who do absolutely

nothing in the office as far as I can tell, but everybody’s

 aware of it. There were occasions where I strangely forgot

 to take my money on the day, coz I’d be so busy, and I

would say to whoever was the Outreach Coordinator for

 the day ‘I’d forgot to take my money yesterday, I’ll

take it today’ and it was , who unfortunately is not there

 anymore, or if it was who had the foresight and goodwill

 to leave or or the…the Outreach supposed Coordinators

 were fully aware of it and I could do that on occasions say

 look, sorry, I forgot to take my money say on a Monday

I’m going to double it up today on the Tuesday.

Absolutely fine, no problem at all.

TYY: Err…what about…err…what was I going to say…

the outreach? What’s this team of outreach people?

San: Urgh! Speak to any (Big Issue) vendor, any vendor

 in London and they will look at you with utter bafflement.

Nobody really knows. They’re based in Vauxhall.

TYY: But do they actually exist?

San: Oh yeah they do exist. When I was there, and I was

 there for a long time…there was ordinarily a team of…

there was Outreach Team Leader…Outreach Manager,

Outreach Team Leader, four Outreach Team

Coordinators…so ordinarily a team of six.

TYY: Could you say that you have never, ever seen

a member of Outreach come out onto the streets?

San: Oh not at all…they’re there every…well they come

 at the end of every single day to pick up the money,

my dear! [laughs]

TYY: Genuinely you say that’s all they do?

San: I couldn’t…I wouldn’t be as cruel to say that to all

 those who…but that would seem…seem to be most of

what they do…if you look now…particularly at the Covent

Garden area or Waterloo area…and see the amount of

people there either sitting down or in a state of disrepair,

be it through drink or drugs and selling the Big Issue, the

Outreach team supposedly supposed to sort that out.

 Unfortunately that was left to me and to or to the street

 based coordinators.

TYY: Are you aware that Big Issue…err…the Big Issue

Foundation (headed by Nigel Kershaw) pays 35% of the

salaries of the Outreach Team?

San: I wasn’t but it doesn’t surprise me…err…I think I told

 you once before, there was…there was a woman who works

for the Outreach Team, actually no as a Service Broker and

when a friend of mine asked her what she did she said she was

 a Service Broker – he’s a Professor from Pennsylvania – and he

said, oh yeah, fine okay, that’s your title: what do you do? She

 couldn’t answer him. It’s ridiculous. She just stone dead couldn’t

answer him. She just looked…it was horrible…you actually just

reminded me of this at the time…just…

just lots of shuffling and…like.

TYY: The Foundation supposedly pays this 35% to cover the

portion of the work that Outreach does in the charitable aims

of the Foundation, you know, providing…err…information and

advice and support to vendors…and err supposedly not just to

 vendors…under the terms of the Charity Commission it has to

be to any homeless person…err…can you think of any

examples where this has actually taken place? leess

San: [long pause]…I’m afraid to say in…in my view…ess

it’s – I’m going to swear and you can cut that out – it’s

absolutely fucking absurd. All I ever saw was like occasionally

 they’d have like a breakfast day where they give vendors a slice

of toast and a glass of orange juice in the morning. Beyond that,

nothing. I’ve known lots of vendors who are desperate for a

passport, or desperate even for the most basic of needs…if

you ask street based homeless…i.e. a sleeping bag and been

 refused by…by the Outreach Team. It’s a nonsense.

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Next: Part Two will present the second half of Tom Yomogi

Yuri's revealing interview with the ex-Big Issue's Sanjav.

Please note that the name "Sanjav" is used herein since

 the full and correct name for "Sanjav" is not known at

this time. However, Sanjav is easily identified from the

images of him posted within this report by Tom Yomogi

Yuri, which has been edited for space mainly. All

 text, however, is retained in the orginial with the

questions and answers untouched in any way other

 than to add the names of Big Issue personnel

 wherever appropiate.

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As for Sanjav, he was one of the few at The Rotten Big

Issue's Vauxhall HQ who personally acknowledged my

 presence and showed his respect toward me that the ilk

 of prick Peter Bird and cold granny Linda Driver never did.

Sanjav was everywhere as a staff member. He would arrive

early on his bike to open the front office at the London HQ

on time. I noticed he was missing when I held my last public

protest in May against the vile Bird Brothers outside The

Big Issue edifice. I wasn't sure if he was then on holiday

or had quit or had been sacked. Now I know he was

"asked to leave," presumably by Peter-Bird-The-Prick. 

 A good and honest worker, Sanjav, like so many

before him, is nothing to The Big Issue machine of

greed and self-centredness and the Bird tyranny of

exploitation of those under them either as stiff staff or

street vendors or duped volunteers. I wish Sanjav

 all the very best and I wish all the very worst for

The Vile Bird Brothers and their rotten Big Issue.

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You'll hear more about Sanjav soon in Part 2 at

where the question is then raised of "Who Gets

All The Money At The Big Issue?"

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Bestest, Uncle Monty.

+Ember Day (BCP), 2011.

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Feedback & Comments:

allaboutthebigissue@gmx.co.uk

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Black Funeral of Police-Shot Gangster Mark Duggan

That UK Scum Looters & Vile Rioters Used As An

 Excuse To Make Mayhem & Violence on the London

city streets, and at other UK urban centres, last month!!

 Look at the photo and then ask yourself:  "What in

heaven's name have they now done to England?

Do U Recognise A Rioter or Looter? If So, Hand Them In ...

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-pictures/Help+catch+the+rioters+-+new+police+appeal+for+help-latest.do?id=23383055

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NDP2011.

By Uncle Monty.

http://thebiggerissueorg.blogspot.com/2011/09/ndp2011.html

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Will The Fake John Bird, Stand Up!

Whoever you are that continues to send me

emails galore in the fake name of John Bird,

I would simply ask that you stop without any 

further ado. Pigface John Bird and I have no

wish or desire to contact each other in any shape

 or form. All I am waiting for is to read his obit!!

Or at least the finale or end of his Rotten Big Issue.

Your comments that I have contacted you as

 "John Bird" are absolute lies from start to finish.

Please go away or better still do us all a big

favour and go jump off the nearest bridge

you pitiful and spiteful git. UM.

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