InterAction needs your winter woolies!
The temperature is dropping and the InterAction team have noticed that some of our more vulnerable beneficiaries are really feeling the cold. So we're putting out a call for donations of warm clothing and [...]
Hilary finishes channel-length sponsored swim for Action Foundation
Cast you memory back to before the pandemic took hold in the UK (ah those were the days) and our intrepid Action Language volunteer Hilary Bennison plunged herself into her local pool to take [...]
Action Foundation’s response to latest lockdown
In response to the latest lockdown announcement from the Government, from Thursday 5th November Action Foundation are adapting the delivery of our projects that we have outlined below in this Q+A. In general terms [...]
How transformative legal funding brought Karim stability
Karim* is from Iran and has been in the UK for 20 years, housed by Action Foundation’s Accommodation project for the last five. His asylum case had been refused multiple times and his mental [...]
Action Foundation calls for Delivery Partners for Digital Inclusion Project
Action Foundation is looking for Delivery Partners for a new 12-month Digital Inclusion project, that will see refugees and asylum seekers being given tablet computers and the training needed to access a wealth of [...]
Call-out for face masks for refugees and asylum seekers!
To stop coronavirus from spreading wearing face coverings are compulsory in the UK for everyday things like travelling on public transport, nipping to the shops and going to the post office, so we would [...]
Julian Prior: ‘Asylum system needs a collaborative solution’
On Sunday Home Secretary Priti Patel pledged to fix the “fundamentally broken” asylum system in the UK to make it “firm and fair” with the “biggest overhaul of the system in decades”. Action Foundation’s [...]
Exciting new digital inclusion project to get refugees connected
Action Foundation is kicking off a new 12-month digital inclusion project that will see refugees and asylum seekers in the North East being given tablet computers and the training needed to access a wealth [...]
Action Foundation welcomes three newbies to the team
After our latest round of recruitment over the summer, we're delighted to introduce you to the latest members of the Action Foundation team! Masitano Sichone is our brand new Data Systems Officer, Phoebe Pham [...]
‘I waited 20 years to get my refugee status – I’m not scared anymore!’
Yacine grew up in Algeria, North Africa with three sisters and a brother – they were a close and happy family with a good life. Then in 1991 Civil War broke out between the Algerian government and Islamist groups. The violence and brutality escalated so [...]