GNR Solo Challenge: Team Action Foundation update
We were gutted when the Great North Run was cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, BUT then came the arrival of the Great North Run Solo Challenge. Entrants need to complete 40 runs (of [...]
New project activities and new jobs!
The Covid-19 Pandemic has been a challenging time in terms of delivering some of our services, but Head of Client Services Duncan McAuley has got all the latest news about some upcoming positive developments [...]
Summer Garden Party Recipes
It’s safe to say there are quite a few foodies on the team at Action Foundation, including Communications + Events Executive Katie Bryson who has her own food blog which she started ten years [...]
Hosting Project to temporarily close
Due to the Coronavirus outbreak Action Foundation has made the difficult decision to temporarily close our Hosting Project. Action Hosting matches volunteer ‘hosts’ offering a spare room in their home with a destitute asylum [...]
Action Language teacher’s diary: learning in miniature
We’ve started our Action Language groups on Zoom and are in the process of organising self study resources online, on paper and via phone calls. We started with 20 people, last week we had [...]
Covid-19 Crisis Support update: Three months on…
The team at Action Foundation have been working incredibly hard over the last three months of lockdown supporting refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants. Isolated and vulnerable people around Tyne & Wear are being [...]
Action Language teacher’s diary – Zoom classes have begun!
Action Language classes have been slowly starting up again this month after the UK went into lockdown. The team have been working incredibly hard to find new ways of making sure asylum seekers, refugees [...]
Refugee Week 2020: Win Indian Spice Recipe Kits!
To celebrate Refugee Week 2020 and the launch of Action Foundation’s new Instagram channel, we are giving away 10 Chettinad Madras Spice Recipe Kits kindly provided by the lovely team at My Delhi Newcastle. [...]
Can you help us provide Covid Face Masks for Refugees and Asylum Seekers?
Now that face coverings are compulsory for people travelling on public transport to stop coronavirus from spreading, we would like to be able to provide them for the refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants [...]
Fouad: ‘My family arrived just before lockdown…’
Refugee Week 15-21 June is a celebration of the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees - something that is more than evident in this moving story we'd like to share. Human Rights student Fouad [...]