Just Love Newcastle are raising money for Action Foundation by running, walking and cycling 2,700 miles across three weeks, representing a common journey travelled by refugees from Damascus to London. We caught up with [...]
Refugee Week 15th - 21st June is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. Founded in 1998 and held every year around World Refugee Day on the 20 June, Refugee [...]
"The Black Lives Matters protests have given us all an opportunity to reflect on the disturbing prevalence of racism and its deeply damaging effects on people from a BAME background. Not only in America, [...]
Action Language classes came to an abrupt halt in March as the UK went into lockdown and the Covid-19 pandemic turned everyone’s lives upside down. Since then the team have been working incredibly hard [...]
Our volunteers are total superstars, and once they get started at Action Foundation, they tend to get stuck right into helping in any way that they can. Helen Johnson is a wonderful member of [...]
Action Foundation have been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. We are one of 230 charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups [...]
It's Volunteers' Week 1st - 7th June, so we're celebrating our incredible team of volunteers by sharing blog posts that give you a real sense of just how fantastic they are! Paula started volunteering [...]
Claire Harmer has been teaching as an ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) instructor for over 6 years at Newcastle College, and has just finished a month-long sponsored Ramadan Fast for three local [...]
It’s now over eight weeks since lockdown began and we launched our Covid-19 Crisis Support Appeal. We’ve raised over £12,000 and the team have been working incredibly hard to provide crucial help to vulnerable [...]
Zala* arrived in the UK from Ethiopia in 2017 and was subsequently detained at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Detention Centre in Bedford, while she waited for a decision on her asylum claim. She was identified [...]
