January 2020
Hilary set to swim 22 miles in 12 weeks for Action Foundation
Action Language volunteer Hilary Bennison is pulling on her goggles and plunging into her local pool this weekend to make a start on her 22 mile fundraising swimathon, which she aims to complete over the [...]
LUSH Newcastle treat Action Foundation beneficiaries with soap donation
The Action Foundation offices are smelling particularly sweet after a generous donation of 100 soaps from the Newcastle branch of ethical cosmetics brand LUSH. InterAction Manager Kate Townsend went to collect three huge bags of [...]
InterAction launches new Health Pop-ups giving vital access to local services
The InterAction team have introduced new monthly Health Pop-up sessions at both their CastleGate and West End Library Drop-ins this month. Stalls were set up by a mixture of health services who came along and [...]
Meet Helen, Action Foundation’s new Housing Services Manager
Helen Cowgill started her new role as Action Foundation’s Housing Services Manager this month, so we thought we’d catch up with her for a quick chat to find out a bit more about our latest [...]
Banish Blue Monday by helping refugees
It’s Blue Monday today, which is meant to be THE most depressing day of the year, so we thought we’d put on our positive pants and show how you could cheer yourself up by making [...]
How Action Foundation helped Jawad tackle a mountain of obstacles
Asylum seekers wait months and sometimes years to hear if they’ve been granted refugee status so they can live and work in the UK. However, this is not the happy ending you might expect, in [...]