GNR Solo Challenge: 5 weeks in!
Our fantastic Great North Run Solo Team are just over halfway through their 10-week challenge of completing 40 runs between June and September. This time we've caught up with Megan, Francesca and Pete. It’s [...]
Summer Garden Party Recipes
It’s safe to say there are quite a few foodies on the team at Action Foundation, including Communications + Events Executive Katie Bryson who has her own food blog which she started ten years [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Can YOU help vulnerable asylum seekers and refugees cope with the Coronavirus crisis?
We’re facing a new challenge here at Action Foundation. The arrival of the Coronavirus has dealt a devastating blow to the services we are usually able offer to vulnerable asylum seekers and refugees. With [...]
Super swimmer Hilary raises over £1,000 despite coronavirus pool closure
Action Language volunteer Hilary Bennison has raised over £1,000 and clocked up a mighty 16 miles of her 22 mile fundraising swimathon, before her local pool was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The [...]
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 [...]
Former Lord Mayor & Lady Mayoress celebrate year of fundraising
The former Lord Mayor of Newcastle, Councillor David Down and The Lady Mayoress Barbara Down visited Action Foundation this week to present the charity with a cheque for £1,350. David and Barbara selected us [...]
Team Action Foundation smash Great North Run 2019
Action Foundation's team of 15 brave and mighty runners for this year's Great North Run have done the charity proud by not only completing the gruelling half marathon course on Sunday, but also by [...]
Avid reader Abi joins the Fundraising & Grants team
Our newest recruit, Abi Walker, tells us a bit more about herself. Born in Middlesbrough, Abi moved to Newcastle for university and fell in love with the City! She spent the last two years [...]