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 [...]
A huge thank you to everyone who’s donated to the Action Foundation Covid-19 Crisis Support Appeal, we are delighted to report that we have smashed through our £10k target and have raised an incredible [...]
Action Foundation’s Hosting scheme matches trained volunteers who have a spare room with a destitute asylum seeker who need a safe place to stay. Marian has only been hosting for Action Foundation for six [...]
Action Foundation would like to provide old laptops and DVDs to vulnerable clients who are particularly socially isolated during this period of Covid-19 lockdown. Imagine the difference it would make to a family struggling [...]
After launching our Covid-19 Crisis Support Appeal, you’ve come together and raised an astonishing £9,000 in a lightning quick nine days! In fact, the total is now an incredible £9,745 and rising. From the [...]
