Meet Helen, Action Foundation’s new Housing Services Manager
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 [...]
Banish Blue Monday by helping refugees
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 [...]
How Action Foundation helped Jawad tackle a mountain of obstacles
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, [...]
Home or Alone Christmas appeal raises over £10k in under 4 weeks!
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 [...]
Let’s hear it for 2019!
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 [...]
“I couldn’t think about anything without a roof over my head”
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 [...]
‘Action Hosting has given me a different life’
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 [...]
Say hello to InterAction’s new recruits
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 [...]
‘Action Hosting helped when I was homeless and desperate’
Action Hosting matches volunteers (hosts) who have a spare bedroom in their home with a destitute asylum seeker (guest) who needs a place to stay for a short period of time. The hosts are [...]
‘Exciting’ new English language Hub launches in Sunderland
Wednesday night saw the very first meeting of the Sunderland ESOL* Hub, led by Sunderland University and their TESOL department. Over 20 people attended and Action Foundation were lucky enough to be invited to [...]