The Action Foundation offices are smelling particularly sweet after a generous donation of 100 soaps from the Newcastle branch of ethical cosmetics brand LUSH. InterAction Manager Kate Townsend went to collect three huge bags [...]
The InterAction team have introduced new monthly Health Pop-up sessions at both their CastleGate and West End Library Drop-ins this month. Stalls were set up by a mixture of health services who came along [...]
Helen Cowgill started her new role as Action Foundation’s Housing Services Manager this month, so we thought we’d catch up with her for a quick chat to find out a bit more about our [...]
It’s Blue Monday today, which is meant to be THE most depressing day of the year, so we thought we’d put on our positive pants and show how you could cheer yourself up by [...]
Asylum seekers wait months and sometimes years to hear if they’ve been granted refugee status so they can live and work in the UK. However, this is not the happy ending you might expect, [...]
Action Foundation are celebrating an impressive £10,581 campaign total for the Home or Alone Christmas appeal, created to raise much-needed funds for the continued running of the Action Hosting project. Action Hosting matches volunteers [...]
As the year draws to a close, Action Foundation have not only been celebrating our 10th anniversary, but also 12 months of growth, success and supporting even more refugees and asylum seekers. Celebrations culminated [...]
Durnaz* was alone with nowhere to go or family to turn to when she was referred to Action Foundation for support. The Housing team quickly realised how vulnerable she was and got her safely [...]
Speaking to our Action Hosting guests about what life was like before they got referred into our charity gives you a painful insight into the suffering that asylum seekers go through every day in [...]
After an unprecedented amount of applications, Jonah and Lizzie dazzled the recruitment panel and joined Action Foundation as Drop-in Co-ordinators at InterAction this month. Being quite nosy, we thought we'd find out a bit [...]
