This year, inspired by Refugee Week’s theme for 2018, ‘20 Simple Acts’, we’re launching an online initiative called #HappyToHost which will take place on Thursday 21st June. Did you know, last year, more than 1,500 people [...]
Featuring evidence from winter night shelters in the network, earlier this month NACCOM published 'Mind the Gap', a report highlighting how Home Office policy is out of sync with efforts by other government departments to [...]
In 2012, Theresa May declared 'The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration'. Over the past few weeks the abhorrent reality of Theresa May's hostile environment has come [...]
Following a period of recruitment, we are pleased to announce two new staff appointments at NACCOM. Paul Catterall will be joining the team in June as a full-time Network Development Worker, working alongside Dave Smith, [...]
WYDAN (the West Yorkshire Destitute Asylum Network) joined NACCOM when their night shelter launched for its third consecutive year at the end of 2017. As the current winter season comes to an end, we caught [...]
On May 24th, NACCOM is hosting its first ever one-day event focusing on accommodation and support for newly recognised refugees. The event, which takes place at St George’s Conference Centre in Leeds, will explore accommodation [...]
In March, the Government launched the Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper, in response to to the Casey Review. The needs of, and barriers faced by, refugees were mentioned at several key points in the paper and there is [...]
A Guest blog by Dave Smith As a Network Development Worker for NACCOM, my job is about building capacity across the membership. But what does that mean, exactly, and why is it important? Wikipedia tells [...]
In an upcoming online session exclusively for NACCOM members, Project 17 will give a brief overview of what statutory support is available for migrant families who have no recourse to public funds and who are [...]
The APPG on Ending Homelessness recently issued a call for evidence on migrant homelessness to contribute to their end of year report on the issue. We submitted our evidence last week in which we shared [...]
We are delighted to have been awarded £500,000 through the Guardian and Observer Charity Winter Appeal. Here's a short update about what we're doing with the funding and how to be part of the capacity-building [...]
All Women Count, a campaign coordinated by Women For Refugee Women, will see refugee and migrant women lobbying Parliament on the 8th March, calling for safety, dignity and liberty for all. The centenary year of women’s [...]
NACCOM is recruiting for a part-time Grants and Administration Officer. This is an exciting time to be joining NACCOM, as we have recently received £500,000 as part of the Guardian and Observer winter appeal, to assist [...]
We are looking for up to four new trustees to strengthen and diversify the skills and experience of the NACCOM Board. The deadline for applicants is next Monday (19th Feb) at 9am. This is an [...]
This month we have welcomed our 50th Full Member, Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary, to the network! Below their team share an update about how they work and some examples of the impact they've seen locally. How [...]
Coming up in February is our Communications and Media Skills Day, where we will be exploring how to engage effectively with the media and decision-makers around the issues that matter most to our members. The [...]
Are you committed to ending destitution amongst asylum seekers, refugees and migrants with no recourse to public funds? Do you have experience of assisting organisations to develop good practices with a focus on accommodation? Do you enjoy [...]
Could you be a NACCOM Trustee? We are looking for up to four new trustees to strengthen and diversify the skills and experience of the Board for our national network. The Trustee Role Description can [...]
This year's Guardian and Observer Charity Appeal has focused on destitution and youth homelessness, with funds raised to support the work of NACCOM, Centrepoint and Depaul UK. The appeal, which closes on Sunday, has already [...]
On Thursday 14th December at 1.30pm, Westminster Hall will hold a debate on the Twelfth Report of the Home Affairs Committee on Asylum Accommodation and the Government Response. Background to the debate The Home Affairs [...]
We are delighted to announce that NACCOM has been chosen as one of the three charities for the 2017 Guardian and Observer Charity Appeal. The appeal runs from 8th December until 7th January and this [...]
Hope at Home, our newest associate member, is a nationwide hosting project that started in Worcestershire in 2016. The scheme bridges the gap in provision for victims of trafficking and asylum seekers, by providing safe accommodation, [...]
Sanctuary in Parliament is an event held in the Houses of Parliament every year by City of Sanctuary and its partners. This year it is taking place on Tuesday 28th November. The aim of the [...]
In November, several NACCOM members are recruiting for new posts. Please see below for details and contact the organisations directly with any enquiries. One Roof is a Leicester based charity providing accommodation and support to [...]
The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN) recently joined NACCOM as an Associate Member. It is a national project with headquarters in London, and we were grateful for TERN's Director, Charlie Fraser, taking some time to explain [...]
This month, Alastair Murray, former London Development Coordinator at Housing Justice, and Will Sutcliffe, Hosting Project Coordinator at BEACON, announced that the time had come for them to step down as NACCOM Trustees. We want [...]
The Refugee Resource Centre for Churches (known as R2C2) is a new project set up in partnership with the Boaz Trust and Jubilee Plus. Dave Smith (NACCOM's Membership Capacity Builder and Founder of the Boaz Trust) has [...]
This week sees the launch of 'Asylum and Refugee Support: Civil Society Filling the Gaps?', a new report published by Dr. Lucy Mayblin and Poppy James on the scale of the response by the third [...]
Earlier this week we caught up with the team at WARM Hut in Salford, a refugee community organisation that became a NACCOM member in August 2016. The team includes Pipeeh Miyalu (Project Manager), Elizabeth Tamgata [...]
People who attended our annual conference earlier this month will remember Estelle Worthington introducing the #PatientsNotPassports campaign that Asylum Matters and Doctors of the World have just launched. Below is a little bit more information [...]
