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As a charity, we too have a Board of Trustees to guide and support our Chief Executive. To mark this year’s Trustees’ Week, we have asked our Chief Executive, Chantal Hughes, to share her thoughts… …on what having Trustees means to her: “In my position as CEO, as much as...

Last week, Hampton Trust’s CARA lead Emma Hazan attended the national CARA conference hosted by Northumbria University. The conference, titled ‘Turning that ship around’, brought together practitioners, academics and policy-makers to examine interim findings of a multi-site study into the effectiveness of CARA. Since 2021, researchers from the University of...

Hampton Trust is made up of many amazing women and men who care passionately about women’s right to live free from violence and abuse. To mark International Women’s Day, we have asked all our staff what female empowerment means to them, and to share their thoughts through quotes, stories, images...

Project Foundation, our collaborative partnership with HIOW Constabulary and the HIOW PCC, is showing promising results. This pilot initiative was developed jointly by police, Hampton Trust and the PCC’s team to manage high-harm and repeat domestic abuse perpetrators and nudge them into specialist services and interventions. As part of the...

Ahead of the General Election this week, charity Respect have published a manifesto laying out the actions that will need to be taken by the new government to make real progress in tackling domestic abuse. At Hampton Trust, we agree with all its key asks: more and better funding for...

A call to action for all frontline services Chantal Hughes, CEO of Hampton Trust In the UK, millions of violence, abuse and harassment crimes against women and girls are recorded each year. Domestic abuse constitutes 15% of police-recorded crime with 1.6 million estimated female victims in the year ending March...