NACCOM is excited to launch our new Strategy for 2022 – 2026.

NACCOM is the No Accommodation Network, a network of over 135 member organisations across the UK dedicated to ending destitution amongst refugees, people seeking asylum or who have been refused asylum and migrants with no recourse to public funds (NRPF). It was set up in 2006 bringing together a number of organisations to meet, share ideas and solutions on how to provide accommodation for people seeking asylum who were facing destitution.

In 2022 we employ eight (soon to be nine) staff and work across the whole of the UK supporting our members. In 2017, NACCOM produced its first strategy and theory of change. For the past five years it has directed the network to achieve significant impact for people seeking asylum, refugees, and migrants with NRPF through four strategic goals.

The network has increased the reach and strength of its accommodation provision for destitute people in the asylum and immigration system, and advocated for changes to government policy and practice that improved their access to housing and financial support. In 2020 NACCOM began a process of strategic review through to a strategy development phase that concluded in early 2022 and we are very grateful to members, volunteers, partners, people with lived experience, staff and trustees for their time and effort in attending meetings and workshops, reviewing draft strategies and theories of change along the way.

We are now delighted to share our new Strategy for the period of 2022 – 2026. The Strategy outlines our Vision, Mission and Values and how NACCOM will work with our members to end destitution for people in the asylum and immigration system.

Our Vision: NACCOM’s vision is for the UK to have a fair, just and humane asylum and immigration system, which enables people seeking asylum, refugees and other migrants to be free from destitution and to live with dignity and agency. 

Our Mission: We believe that destitution has no place in a fair, just and humane asylum and immigration system. Therefore NACCOM exists to promote solidarity, connections and good practice to assist the establishment and delivery of accommodation and support projects working with people facing destitution because they are in the asylum and immigration system in the UK. In addition, we work with member organisations, partners and supporters to use the evidence and testimony of NACCOM members and people with lived experience to influence change at a local, regional and national level to create better pathways out of destitution and end destitution for good.

To deliver our plan, the four key changes (strategic goals) we will seek to
implement are:

  1. The root causes and human impact of destitution and solutions to end destitution are
    better understood

  2. People with lived experience play a core and equitable role in highlighting the human impact
    of destitution and creating and sharing the solutions to destitution promoted by NACCOM

  3. More policies and practice exist to support the end to destitution

  4. More and better services exist to support people out of immediate destitution and provide long-term pathways out of destitution.

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Watch our new animation to learn more about NACCOM and our Vision to #EndDestitution.

Watch our Strategy launch, which took place on August 9th 2022.