Fouad Qamar and Raphaela Berding are the latest recruits to our InterAction Drop-in team. Fouad is a refugee from Kuwait who was formerly a volunteer with our Digital Inclusion Project whilst Raphaela is from [...]
A group of Action Language learners enjoyed a theatre trip to Northern Stage last week to see Here, a new play by the Theatre of Sanctuary company, Curious Monkey, which tells the fictional story [...]
In common with many organisations, Action Foundation has been overwhelmed and humbled by the number of enquiries we’ve received from people offering a helping hand to refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine. Our thoughts [...]
Our fantastic fundraiser Richard Dawson has raised more than £1,200 - six times his original target - to support refugees and asylum seekers across Tyne and Wear by completing a gruelling 48-mile challenge. Richard [...]
Reading is such a fantastic way to step into someone else's shoes. This World Book Day we asked our staff to recommend a book they've read on migration, either fiction or non-fiction. Why not [...]
Action Language teacher and co-ordinator, Ian Raby, began his career teaching English as an additional language out in Ukraine. As Russian forces close in on the capital Kyiv, Ian reflects on his time there [...]
It’s one of the toughest new fitness feats around – the 4x4x48 Challenge will be nothing short of ‘absolute torture’, according to Richard Dawson, who is taking on this amazing two-day endurance test to [...]
We're very pleased to introduce Joanne Reidy, Support Work Manager for Action Housing and Action Lettings. Joanne has worked in a wide variety of roles addressing homelessness and she's looking forward to making a [...]
Local artists and a videographer visited our Drop-in to find out what refugees and asylum seekers in Tyne and Wear know about Hadrian's Wall. It was all part of a Hadrian's Wall 1900 Festival [...]
Analysis of Action Foundation's pioneering 'Action Access' pilot project which was funded by the Home Office, has found it is more humane and significantly less expensive to support vulnerable asylum seekers in the community [...]
