"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 [...]
In this thoughtful blog post, Action Hosting Volunteer Helen* writes honestly about both her first experience as a host for Action Foundation and what it’s been like having an asylum seeker to stay in [...]
Action Foundation are working with the Home Office and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on a two-year pilot scheme ‘Action Access: Alternative to Detention.’ The project provides housing and support to [...]
