June 2020
Meet Helen – Language and Covid-19 Crisis Volunteer and Fundraising extraordinaire!
Our volunteers are total superstars, and once they get started at Action Foundation, they tend to get stuck right into helping in any way that they can. Helen Johnson is a wonderful member of the [...]
Action Foundation receives the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service
Action Foundation have been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. We are one of 230 charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups to [...]
May 2020
‘Action Language has been a massive life saver’
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 with [...]
Claire’s fundraising fast for local refugee charities
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 refugee [...]
Covid-19 Crisis Support update: Eight weeks on…
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 asylum [...]
Action Access celebrates first Refugee Status decision!
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 as [...]