What we do
Founded in 1995, NCADC is a national organisation which supports community-led campaigns for justice in the asylum and immigration system, with a focus on supporting people facing forced removal. We currently have two Campaigns Coordinators, supported by a small team of volunteers. The organisation is managed by a voluntary Management Committee of Directors.
Direct support: public campaigns against deportation
NCADC provides free, objective and confidential advice on all pros and cons of campaigning work. If you decide that a campaign is right for you we can help with planning, organising your first campaign meetings, writing letters, petitions, designing leaflets, contacting politicians, using the media and more. NCADC cannot represent you, or run your campaign, but we can advise you and your supporters and we can publish your campaign materials on the internet and our email lists, appealing for public support.
Indirect support: signposting to other sources of help
If you decide that a campaign is not right for you, we may be able to help in other ways, with information and signposting advice. NCADC cannot provide legal advice, but we may be able to help you find up-to-date information that could help your case. We will try to find groups in your area that can help. We can refer people to help with detention or destitution problems.
Information service
We provide an information service through email newsletters, our website, news blog, and other online communications. Our NCADC World website is a repository of country of origin information to support asylum applications and campaigns. Through this service we week to raise public awareness of injustice in the immigration and asylum system, as well as providing resources for people campaiging for the right to stay.
Capacity building and training
NCADC provides support and advice to local campaigning groups, and can deliver training sessions to help groups to support and campaign for people facing deportation. In 2011 we have started a process with an advisory group to create a comprehensive new campaigning toolkit, with a handbook and training materials. The aim is for this to be launched late 2011 or early 2012.
Current Management Committee of NCADC
Romain Ngouabeu - Chair of Management Committee
Romain, originally from Cameroon and now based in London, is a hardworking and self motivated individual who is very passionate about human rights issues and equal opportunities. Romain speaks English, French and a number of African dialects. He has long term experience working and advocating for vulnerable people in prisons and detention centres.
Robert Swinfen - Treasurer
Robert works in a management capacity at The Iona Community and formerly worked for SACRO, Richmond Fellowship, NACRO and Oxfam and served on the Boards of Stepping Stones for Families and also the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations as well as Survivors Poetry Scotland and many other community bodies. He is a professional qualified accountant.
Felix Ngatchou
Felix served as NCADC's Secretary from 2009-2010 and chaired the AGM 2010 Committee. Felix arrived to the UK from Cameroon and has since been an active campaigner on immigration and settlement issues, volunteering with Medical Justice, FRFI, No Borders and NCADC.
Dorothy Ismail
Dorothy has a wealth of voluntary experience in refugee support and campaigning, and brings 20 years of human resources management experience from her professional career. She has been volunteering for ten years now with the North of England Refugee Service, and for the last five years has been running a drop-in for destitute asylum seekers in Sunderland.
Bill MacKeith
Bill is a freelance book and magazine editor, member of the National Union of Journalists and for over 25 years an officer of Oxford Trades Union Council. Active in anti privatisation campaigns he is also a founder member of the Campaign to Close Campsfield and the Barbed Wire Britain anti-detention network.
Alison Phipps
Alison is co-convener of Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration network at the University of Glasgow She is a Professor of languages and intercultural studies and has long convening and board membership experience with The British Council, The Iona Community and the World Council of Churches as well as volunteering with several asylum organisations in Glasgow for many years.
Jessica Wheeler
Jessica is a final year PhD student, based at the Cambridge Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Group. Outside of her research, she is involved in a number of campaigns and projects, which investigate and take action on a number of immigrant rights issues including Cambridge Migrant Solidarity, of which she is an active member, and the Young People Seeking Safety Campaign.
Shafiq Mohammed
Shafiq has over 14 years experience of working in the asylum and refugee sector in Scotland. Prior to his current work with Migrant Helpline, his experience includes 4 years as a caseworker with the Scottish Refugee Council and 10 years as a Senior Management team member with YMCA Glasgow. Shafiq also has several years experience as management committee member and sometime Chair of a community-controlled housing association.
NCADC is a not-for-profit company, limited by guarantee. registration number: 04026564
Registered address: 86 Durham Road, London, N7 7DT