Our Management Team

Chantal Hughes - Chief Executive

Chantal has worked in the voluntary sector for over 20 years.  She started her career working with young people in care and delivering National Children’s Bureau training to equip individuals to provide mentoring support to careleavers.  She has held posts with The Children’s Society where she developed services for sex workers, looked after children, careleavers and young people in the criminal justice system. Her career has involved designing a range of experiential courses and interventions aimed at breaking the cycle of abuse, offending and exploitation.

Chantal taught Psychotherapy at University of Southampton for six years, whilst holding various psychotherapy posts, including schools based work, private practice and six years working with Relate, during which time she assisted in the implementation of the ‘bridging to safety model’ for couples experiencing domestic abuse.

Chantal joined Hampton Trust in 2006 as the Domestic Abuse Services Manager before progressing to Deputy Chief Executive.  She took a 4-month sabbatical in 2011 to work for a charity providing rehabilitation to street children in one of the largest slums in Africa and remains connected to the work in Kenya.

Taking up the role of CEO in 2013, Chantal has led the expansion of a range of domestic abuse and criminal justice interventions.  She remains firmly committed to tackling the root cause of domestic abuse by holding perpetrators to account and ensuring the voice of victims and children are at the forefront of the work.

Tracy Kent - Deputy Chief Executive

Tracy joined The Hampton Trust in 2009 as the Integrated Safety Support Worker advising partners (ex) of perpetrators accessing domestic abuse behavioural change programmes. In 2011 she moved into the role of the Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (ISVA) for the Isle of Wight whilst completing a Post Graduate Certificate in ‘Advocacy Skills for Working with Survivors of Sexual Violence’ at Worcester University.

Alongside the ISVA role Tracy facilitated Accredited Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Training (ADAPT) programmes and Cautioning and Relationship Abuse (CARA) workshops. In 2014 Tracy was offered the Domestic Abuse Services Manager role to which she was responsible for overseeing all Hampshire’s Community Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programmes, CARA, and the Isle of Wight ISVA Service.

In 2016 Tracy took on the role of Hampton Trust’s Deputy Chief Executive playing a leading role in the development and innovation of all interventions, training, and the national rollout of CARA.

Emma Hazan - CARA Development Manager

Emma has been working in domestic abuse and gender-based violence for over 10 years. She has a Masters of Social Work in policy and intervention to help further her work in ending domestic abuse. She has worked with victim services in South Korea, New Zealand, Canada and the UK.

Emma joined Hampton Trust in 2015 as a sessional facilitator for ADAPT (Accredited Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Training). She became a senior practitioner within the ADAPT team in 2016 carrying out programme suitability assessments as well as developing and delivering pilot programmes and training for professionals across Hampshire. She began delivering CARA (Cautioning and Relationship Abuse) in 2016.

Emma went on to manage a Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Service in Gloucestershire while supporting the rollout and delivery of CARA in Avon & Somerset and West Yorkshire. Recently, she has returned to Hampton Trust in 2021 as CARA Development Manager.

Debbie Willis - Children and Young People Services Manager

Debbie has extensive experience of working with groups of vulnerable children and young people. Debbie started her working career in the looked after system and moved on to become a qualified youth worker.

Debbie has since designed and implemented many different youth orientated programmes including participatory development work for a range of organisations including the Youth Services, Connexions and the voluntary sector. Debbie has worked across the UK in both urban and rural contexts, largely as a detached youth worker.

Over the year’s Debbie has written and delivered a number of training courses for a wide selection of agencies, schools and youth groups across the south. As the Children and Young People Services Manager (lead) for Hampton Trust, she has worked with a diverse range of young people to develop Behavioural Change programmes for young people and young adults.

Laura Childs - Drive Service Manager

Laura joined Hampton Trust in 2022 as a Service Manager, she is now the High Harm Manager and oversees projects including Foundation Project and Caring Dads. Laura also has involvement with MATAC process, and facilitates CARA and DARE.

Laura has over 10 years’ experience working with victims and people causing harm. Laura has experience of working with families and in refuges as well as delivering programmes to support survivors of abuse, she is passionate about reducing the risk to victims of domestic abuse.

Steve Lazell

Steve joined Hampton Trust in early 2022 as Finance Manager. In this role, Steve is responsible for all aspects of the Hampton Trust’s finances, with a particular focus on financial planning and cashflow management. He is supported by the Finance Administrator who manages payroll, invoicing and day to day bookkeeping.

Before joining Hampton Trust, Steve spent 25 years in a variety of managerial finance roles within large corporations including 3M, Carnival, and most recently NATS (the UK’s air traffic control provider) where he worked for 15 years. Steve is also Treasurer for a large church in Hampshire, a role that he has performed since 2006. He is excited to have a position which uses his experience and skills in financial management to provide the Hampton Trust management team, and Trustees, with the information they need to make sound financial decisions and in doing so, help make a positive difference to many people’s lives.