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 [...]
Refugee Week 2020: How to cook the perfect Kuku Sabzi
We asked InterAction Drop-in Co-ordinator and Iranian Refugee Jonah Mesgarnezhad, who is also an extremely enthusiastic and talented cook, to share one of his favourite dishes with us to celebrate Refugee Week. The result?! [...]
Refugee Week 2020: Just Love Newcastle launches 2,700 mile challenge
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 2020: Local Ambassador MD gets the party started
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 [...]
Action Foundation’s CEO Julian Prior reflects on damaging effects of racism
"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, [...]