NACCOM and Asylum Matters have produced a joint briefing, which has been sent to Local Authorities, on preventing evictions into homelessness from asylum accommodation during COVID-19 and beyond. In March, with the onset of the pandemic and as the country was put into lockdown due to COVID-19, […]
NACCOM has joined with Crisis and over 40 other organisations working in the homelessness sector to call on the Government to urgently introduce emergency homelessness legislation to protect people facing homelessness during the coronavirus pandemic, including those with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF). In a joint […]
In May, NACCOM was asked to give evidence to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee, which was looking into the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP’s) response to the Coronavirus. Jessie Seal, NACCOM’s Campaigns and Policy Co-ordinator, appeared by video link to talk about […]
NACCOM has joined with partners across the sector to call on the Prime Minister to scrap the Government’s NRPF policy. On Wednesday 27th May, Prime Minister Boris Johnson committed to review the No Recourse to Public Funds policy (NRPF), saying ‘people who’ve worked hard for this country […]
On March 26th, the Government instructed Local Authorities to accommodate all rough sleepers (regardless of immigration status) during the pandemic. After reports were circulated last week (May 15th) in the Manchester Evening News that the Government was now ‘winding up’ its ‘Everyone In’ programme, the Ministry for […]
With the onset of the pandemic, and the disruption to normal service provision, many NACCOM members are having to consider alternatives to cash payments to support people who are destitute. To help member organisations with this, NACCOM has produced an information and advice document, including two offers from […]
On March 26th, NACCOM, member charities in our network, and other leading charities from across the migration sector, have once again written to the Prime Minister, urging him to make vital support available to those unable to access public funds due to their uncertain migration status, during […]
Today (March 19th 2020), over 70 leading charities, organisations and individuals that provide essential services for people who are destitute and homeless because of their migration status are calling on the Government to take urgent action, as the Covid-19 crisis escalates. In a letter addressed to the […]
NACCOM is pleased to launch our new Housing Toolkit – a comprehensive resource for existing and proposed housing projects that accommodate destitute people who are seeking asylum, refugees and other migrants. The toolkit is the latest in a series of practical guides launched by NACCOM to provide […]
A housing project is helping migrants out of destitution by using an innovative model of funding and support. Run by Praxis Community Projects, in partnership with Commonweal Housing, the London-based project has been providing migrant families and single women who have No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) […]
This month we caught up with the team at Housing Justice, a NACCOM member based in London that run a hosting scheme and night shelter network. Housing Justice have recently received a large pot of funding from the Greater London Authority to reduce rough sleeping in the […]
See below for job vacancies across the network in December. For more information please contact the projects involved directly. Abigail Housing is recruiting a full-time Housing Manager to lead the day to day running of our Leeds-based Refugee Project. Abigail Housing provides accommodation and support to people […]
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 year the focus is on youth homelessness and destitution. The other two […]
This year our Mapping Exercise is being completed in two parts, using an online survey to map information on service provision and changing needs faced by our members and residents that are supported. We’d like to express huge thanks to all our members who have already engaged with […]
One of our newest members, Thousand For 1000, a registered charity based in Brighton, share how their project started, and how they are responding to some of the challenges and opportunities that have come their way since launching just over a year ago. “One of the first things […]
