Donate Here We’re so excited to share the details of our new seasonal fundraising campaign with you. This winter, we're asking you to Stand With Refugee Families as they struggle to make ends [...]
Our Young Lives service scored an outstanding hat-trick at this year's annual NE Youth Impact Awards held at the Grand Hotel, Newcastle. The judges voted Young Lives 'Most Improved Project of the Year' [...]
Our CEO, Duncan McAuley, has announced he will step down from his role as leader of Action Foundation in the spring of 2026. He said working here had been 'a privilege and a [...]
Action Foundation is part of the newly launched North East Women's Homelessness Alliance whose mission it is to end women's homelessness in our region for good. Research shows that women experience homelessness differently [...]
School's out for summer for our English language students - but school's out forever for long-serving volunteer teacher, Hilary Bennison. She's finally retiring from her role as a Language & Learning teacher after [...]
We are delighted to welcome Dr Vanessa Montesi to Action Foundation as the new manager of our Language & Learning service. She brings with her a true love of languages, being fluent in [...]
It’s Volunteers' Week– a time to highlight the work of all those amazing people who give their time and skills freely so that charities like ours can support those using our services. Here [...]
This week we've been highlighting the life-changing contribution made by our network of philanthropic landlords, who allow us to rent out homes to newly-recognised refugees. Here, one of our former residents, Oliver, explains just [...]
All this week we’re going to be shining the spotlight on our unique Letting service which provides safe accommodation for refugees who might otherwise be homeless. That’s people like Adam, who was forced [...]
Following the mid-point review of our five year strategy we’ve been seeking feedback from clients, staff and volunteers on how they think Action Foundation is performing. It’s been a big consultation exercise and we’re [...]
