Action Foundation is an award-winning charity based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Through our free English language school and supported housing projects we support refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants experiencing isolation in Tyne and Wear and provide opportunities to help them overcome their exclusion.
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Action Letting
Action Letting provides supported accommodation to newly granted single adult refugees at risk of homelessness during their rapid transition to mainstream housing. We currently manage 15 properties in Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland on behalf of private landlords.
Find out more about Action Letting.
Action Housing
Action Housing provides supported accommodation to destitute asylum seekers with no recourse to public funds. Due to their immigration status this extremely vulnerable group are unable to work or receive any government support and are therefore entirely reliant on the help of charities or friends to survive.
Find out more about Action Housing
Action Access
Action Access offers a community-based alternative to clients who have been refused asylum and are currently held in detention. The project has been designed in partnership with the UNHCR and the Home Office.
Find out more about Action Access.
Action Hosting
Action Hosting matches volunteers offering a spare room in their home with a destitute asylum seeker to provide short-term accommodation. All hosts are fully trained and the thorough matching process means that placements are positive experiences for both hosts and guests.
For more information about Action Hosting.
Action Language
Action Language provides free English courses in Newcastle and Sunderland city centre. Our aim is to provide ESOL classes to refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants unable to access mainstream classes in a supportive environment.
All our free classes are taught by qualified volunteer teachers.
Find out more about Action Language.
InterAction
InterAction provides a friendly, accessible, interactive and supportive environment to help new and other migrants experiencing loneliness, isolation and feelings of disorientation, to connect with other people and cultures, local places and services.
For more information about InterAction.
In 2018 Action Foundation…
…supported
Helped people from…
88 different countries
News & Events
Refugee Week 2019: Welcome Home? A talk by Shane Claibourne
Join Shane Claibourne at the CastleGate at City Church on Thursday 20th June, 5 - 6.30 p.m. in support of destitute refugees. Book your free place at http://bit.ly/WelcomeHomewithShaneClaibourne
Meet our Drop-in team!
Meet the team heading up our new interaction Drop-ins, Kate Townsend, our Drop-in Manager and Tolosa Tadesse our Drop-in Coordinator. Our Drop-ins, for asylum seekers and refugees, take place on a Tuesday at CastleGate and on Thursdays at the West End Library between 12 noon and 2pm. Kate grew up in north Nottinghamshire with her parents, two brothers and Cockapoo, Zoe. At the age of 18, she moved to Senegal for a year where she taught English and German to 5-25 year olds and lived with a local family – she is still on the lookout for any Wolof speakers [...]
Asylum seeker Amir drops-in to help us!
Amir arrived in the UK on 24 November 2018 having fled persecution in Iran and then moved to Newcastle in December 2018 where he is currently awaiting news of a date for his asylum claim interview. I met Amir recently while he was helping to assemble a pool table for our new interAction Drop-in at the West End Library and I asked him how he became involved with volunteering at Action Foundation. He told me that on arrival in Newcastle he joined the City Church community and through them learned about the work of Action Language and then enquired about [...]
“I got the chance to improve a lot my English language and to meet new people and friends. Thanks to Action Language and ESOL for Work course, I got my job in the UK, I really feel much more confident.”