Good morning everyone We wanted to update you on Action Foundation’s response to the current Coronavirus outbreak, as we know you’ll have concerns regarding how services may be affected and how we should respond. [...]
Samal* came from Iraq where he’d worked as an artist, to seek asylum in the UK five years ago. He was referred into Action Foundation by the West End Refugee Service in 2017, after [...]
Libby has been volunteering as a teacher for Action Language since 2008 and increasingly specialises in Beginners' classes, which she loves. Action Language provides free English courses in Newcastle and Sunderland city centre [...]
Music and singing are well known for boosting your wellbeing, so it’s been wonderful to welcome Sam and Wakanda from Citizen Songwriters to the InterAction Drop-in for a series of three songwriting workshops. Local [...]
Action Language volunteer Hilary Bennison is pulling on her goggles and plunging into her local pool this weekend to make a start on her 22 mile fundraising swimathon, which she aims to complete over [...]
The Action Foundation offices are smelling particularly sweet after a generous donation of 100 soaps from the Newcastle branch of ethical cosmetics brand LUSH. InterAction Manager Kate Townsend went to collect three huge bags [...]
The InterAction team have introduced new monthly Health Pop-up sessions at both their CastleGate and West End Library Drop-ins this month. Stalls were set up by a mixture of health services who came along [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
