January 2020
Home or Alone Christmas appeal raises over £10k in under 4 weeks!
Action Foundation are celebrating an impressive £10,581 campaign total for the Home or Alone Christmas appeal, created to raise much-needed funds for the continued running of the Action Hosting project. Action Hosting matches volunteers (hosts) [...]
December 2019
Let’s hear it for 2019!
As the year draws to a close, Action Foundation have not only been celebrating our 10th anniversary, but also 12 months of growth, success and supporting even more refugees and asylum seekers. Celebrations culminated in [...]
“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 [...]