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Give the gift of community to refugees this Christmas.
As if making it to safer ground wasn’t hard enough, migrants arriving in Newcastle this winter face a daunting set of challenges. Navigating a new city, cold temperatures, making sense of a foreign culture and language while trying to simultaneously deal with legal claims and housing issues – all this with just over £5 a day to survive on and all the limitations of the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s a terrifying recipe for isolation. Our innovative twice-weekly InterAction Drop-in provides a welcoming, safe and supportive environment, giving migrants the chance to connect directly with the local agencies who can empower them to put down roots within their community. Whether it’s advice, support or warming up with a hot drink and a chat, if we can resolve just one issue for someone, they can leave with one less thing to worry about and start to transform their life.
What difference will your donation make?
-£20 provides PPE for a month to keep our staff, volunteers and clients safe at the drop-in
-£75 is the cost for two members of staff to run an outreach session at local hotels.
-£100 would allow us to invest in up-to-date equipment including tech and perspex screens
-£150 will cover the room hire for one drop-in session
Donations
£10,836.25
raised of
£10,000.00
target by
52
supporters
Supporters 52
About the good cause
Action Foundation
Action Foundation is an award-winning charity
based in Newcastle upon Tyne providing help to refugees, asylum seekers and
other migrants through supported housing and free community language
classes.
Action Foundation empowers refugees to overcome exclusion, supporting them to; avoid homelessness and extreme poverty, access vital services, increase their skills and employability, access legal support, integrate and live independently.
For further information visit the twitter feed.
- Fri, May 7 2021, 1:00 PM : Congratulations to MD Mominul Hamid on being awarded the National Societies & Volunteering Awards - this guy is SO… https://t.co/Ntg1SEtQmv
- Fri, May 7 2021, 12:00 PM : We've now surpassed £600 for our #CaptainTom100 fundraiser - woohoo! Thanks to everyone who has donated... 🧡💪🏽🏃🏽♂️… https://t.co/P4px5igclJ
- Fri, May 7 2021, 10:07 AM : Job Opportunity! We need an ambitious and self-motivated Head of Finance and Resources to lead and manage the finan… https://t.co/ERO506geT9
- Wed, May 5 2021, 3:03 PM : @socialjustlass @NPCENGTEAM @BaileyDebi WONDERFUL news you lovely big-hearted lot!!!!!
- Wed, May 5 2021, 3:03 PM : A huge well done to our team of fundraisers who smashed into the #CaptainTom100 challenge weekend and to all our lo… https://t.co/4xoda5tp44
- Tue, May 4 2021, 7:02 PM : @snowgoose561 That would be great thanks! ✉️ Action Foundation, The Castle Gate, Melbourne Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2JQ
- Mon, May 3 2021, 2:45 PM : “We are completely soaked, but despite de weather did a long walk Blyth- St. Mary's lighthouse- Blyth to complete t… https://t.co/ylmJvKTuOK
