Empowering refugees to overcome exclusion
Who We Are
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.
Last year we directly supported 1,413 refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants, through our 4 projects;
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We have volunteering opportunities with our Action Language project as a teacher or teaching assistant and with Action Hosting as a volunteer host. Click here for more details!
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Read MoreRecent Posts and Events
Celebrating the year with…
Thank you to all our learners, residents, volunteers, funders and supporters!!! What…
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Overcoming cultural and practical…
On Wednesday 7 November we launched our Resident Support Programme. The project…
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Volunteering Opportunities: Resident Support…
Resident Support Programme: Next month Action Foundation is launching the Resident…
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Linguacuisine: Recipes for language…
Below are details of an exciting event we are taking part in…
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Action Language Enrolment Days…
If you can’t have English classes at college, you can come to…
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Event Sponsorship Form
Please click here for our Sponsorship Form which you can download and print…
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Ela is on a…
Elzbieta Sarapata (Ela) is from a mountain village called Piechowice in Poland,…
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Providing opportunities to help…
As part of our most recent ESOL for Work course, we included…
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TEAM ACTION FOUNDATION -…
We have 14 fantastic runners representing Action Foundation this year raising money…
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Lord Mayor of Newcastle…
In celebration of Refugee Week, we welcomed the Lord Mayor of Newcastle,…
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Christmas celebration 2017...a great…
Thank you to everyone who came along to our Christmas celebration! We…
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Meet Rachel! A Psychology…
I chose to start volunteering with Action Language because I'd heard what…
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Great North Run runners…
For the first time this year Action Foundation secured charity places for…
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