Would you like to join our Board of Trustees?
We are looking for new Trustees to join our Board at Action Foundation to help deliver our purpose. Action Foundation supports and empowers people seeking asylum, refugees and migrants in the North East [...]
Yousef gets gardening thanks to new South Tyneside project
Iranian refugee, Yousef Rastgoo, who came to the UK eight months ago to build a new life here, has found a home from home in a South Tyneside community garden thanks to a [...]
Help us to house more people like Mohsen
Receiving a positive asylum decision should be a cause for celebration, particularly because many of our clients can wait years to receive their refugee status. However, as the Home Office tries to clear [...]
Pop art and pottery – Action Language students enjoy the Baltic
Action Language students don’t just learn inside the classroom – in the last few weeks they’ve been out enjoying enrichment activities at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. These striking collages pictured above [...]
Bridget heads up new Action Foundation project
We're delighted to welcome Bridget Stratford MBE to Action Foundation. Bridget is going to be managing our brand new project supporting children, families and young people from asylum seeking or refugee backgrounds. Welcome [...]
Our CEO Duncan shares his Christmas message
Homelessness is the biggest issue facing many of our clients right now. And in a special Christmas video for supporters our CEO Duncan meets Mohsen, a newly recognised refugee whom Action Foundation housed [...]