Meet Nicola We're really excited to welcome to Nicola, our new Communications Officer! She brings more than 15 years of marketing and communications experience from national and local charities. Tell us a bit [...]
Meet Clive We're really excited to welcome to Clive, our new Senior Youth Worker! He brings more than 12 years of hands-on youth work experience from across the North East. Tell us a [...]
One of the great things about Action Foundation is the way in which services dovetail for clients. For example, Karim first came to us because he was homeless and needed the support of [...]
Our Young Lives service scored an outstanding hat-trick at this year's annual NE Youth Impact Awards held at the Grand Hotel, Newcastle. The judges voted Young Lives 'Most Improved Project of the Year' [...]
It’s Volunteers' Week– a time to highlight the work of all those amazing people who give their time and skills freely so that charities like ours can support those using our services. Here [...]
Young refugees from Action Foundation’s Young Lives project have been working with film maker, Tom Bing, to produce a powerful piece entitled ‘Small Matters.’ The short film, which was launched to a rapt audience [...]
Children and young people from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds have been particularly badly affected by the recent riots. Bridget Stratford MBE, who manages our Young Lives project, said: “Children are feeling afraid [...]
Young refugee women are learning to surf thanks to an exciting partnership between Action Foundation and the Tynemouth based surf academy Yonder. Sally McGee, who set up Yonder, has a background in working with [...]
