July 2020
Hosting Project to temporarily close
Due to the Coronavirus outbreak Action Foundation has made the difficult decision to temporarily close our Hosting Project. Action Hosting matches volunteer ‘hosts’ offering a spare room in their home with a destitute asylum seeker [...]
Action Language teacher’s diary: learning in miniature
We’ve started our Action Language groups on Zoom and are in the process of organising self study resources online, on paper and via phone calls. We started with 20 people, last week we had 59 [...]
June 2020
Covid-19 Crisis Support update: Three months on…
The team at Action Foundation have been working incredibly hard over the last three months of lockdown supporting refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants. Isolated and vulnerable people around Tyne & Wear are being swiftly [...]
Action Language teacher’s diary – Zoom classes have begun!
Action Language classes have been slowly starting up again this month after the UK went into lockdown. The team have been working incredibly hard to find new ways of making sure asylum seekers, refugees and [...]
Refugee Week 2020: Win Indian Spice Recipe Kits!
To celebrate Refugee Week 2020 and the launch of Action Foundation’s new Instagram channel, we are giving away 10 Chettinad Madras Spice Recipe Kits kindly provided by the lovely team at My Delhi Newcastle. The [...]
Can you help us provide Covid Face Masks for Refugees and Asylum Seekers?
Now that face coverings are compulsory for people travelling on public transport to stop coronavirus from spreading, we would like to be able to provide them for the refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants that [...]