Action Foundation’s plans for Refugee Week 2021
Refugee Week (14th – 20th June) is just around the corner and we can’t WAIT to tell you what we’ve got planned. The theme of this year’s Refugee Week is ‘We Cannot Walk Alone’ [...]
Theatre project transforms ‘quiet’ Lily to confident performer
Cardboard Citizens is a unique theatre company working with people who have lived experience of homelessness to create productions that activate social change. Co-ordinator Rosa Stourac McCreery started working with the InterAction Drop-in in [...]
New CEO appointed for Action Foundation
Action Foundation has announced that Duncan McAuley has been appointed as their new Chief Executive Officer. Duncan has been working at Action Foundation as Head of Client Services since February 2020 and will transition [...]
InterAction call-out for men’s clothes
Can YOU help the InterAction Drop-in team support people seeking asylum who have newly arrived in Newcastle with just the clothes they are stood up in. InterAction Drop-in Manager Yvonne Cheung told us: “The [...]
Meet Action Foundation’s Patron – The Bishop of Durham
We're very proud to have The Bishop of Durham, Paul Butler as Action Foundation's Patron. We caught up with him to find out how he came to be a Bishop, why he decided to [...]
InterAction Drop-in re-opens its doors
With tier 4 restrictions giving way to another full national lockdown, our twice-weekly InterAction Drop-in service had to close at the end of 2020. In the first few months of 2021 Yvonne and her [...]
Can you help us raise £500 to fund our ‘Grow’ project?
As lots of us head out into our gardens to start the growing season, we thought our beneficiaries would really benefit from a spot of gardening too! Action Foundation’s ‘Grow’ project looks to support [...]
Another ‘new plan’ to increase destitution
Action Foundation’s CEO Julian Prior reflects on Priti Patel’s ‘New Plan for Immigration’ that she said would amount to the “biggest overhaul of our asylum system in decades” to “fix this fundamentally broken [asylum] system”. _______________________________________________________________________________ For decades, the asylum system [...]
How a new tablet has transformed Zainab’s language learning
Imagine trying to join in with English language classes on a battered old mobile phone with a tiny screen and limited internet access – not an easy prospect for those living on £5 asylum [...]
Join in with the Captain Tom 100 Challenge!
Following the outpouring of heartfelt messages since the death of Captain Sir Tom Moore on 2 February, his family pledged to celebrate his life with an event that everyone, in the UK and around [...]