December 2019
“I couldn’t think about anything without a roof over my head”
Durnaz* was alone with nowhere to go or family to turn to when she was referred to Action Foundation for support. The Housing team quickly realised how vulnerable she was and got her safely housed [...]
‘Action Hosting has given me a different life’
Speaking to our Action Hosting guests about what life was like before they got referred into our charity gives you a painful insight into the suffering that asylum seekers go through every day in our [...]
November 2019
Say hello to InterAction’s new recruits
After an unprecedented amount of applications, Jonah and Lizzie dazzled the recruitment panel and joined Action Foundation as Drop-in Co-ordinators at InterAction this month. Being quite nosy, we thought we'd find out a bit more [...]
‘Action Hosting helped when I was homeless and desperate’
Action Hosting matches volunteers (hosts) who have a spare bedroom in their home with a destitute asylum seeker (guest) who needs a place to stay for a short period of time. The hosts are fully [...]
‘Exciting’ new English language Hub launches in Sunderland
Wednesday night saw the very first meeting of the Sunderland ESOL* Hub, led by Sunderland University and their TESOL department. Over 20 people attended and Action Foundation were lucky enough to be invited to speak [...]
InterAction needs your winter woolies!
The temperature has dropped 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 blankets [...]