The Hampton Trust

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Our History

The Hampton Trust was established in 1996 as a response to statutory agencies experiencing high numbers of domestic abuse incidents across Hampshire. Short term sentences were unsuccessful in reducing re-offending, and a more effective criminal justice response was required. The Hampton Trust went on to design and deliver court mandated domestic abuse perpetrator programmes for almost a decade.
The original perpetrator programme has evolved and developed over the years into our ADAPT programme – A community based domestic violence prevention programme (DVPP) with an enhanced integrated women’s safety service. ADAPT has achieved national ‘Respect’ accreditation status, and The Hampton Trust is now one of the largest providers of perpetrator programmes in the country.

Our Aims

The Hampton Trust’s mission is to enable people to live free from abuse, conflict and social exploitation. We achieve this by delivering innovative, ground breaking programmes to individuals, families, children and young people who are facing adverse circumstances.
Our organisation is RESPECT and ISO 9001 accredited, and we have won awards for our preventative, educational and therapeutic programmes (See Our Achievements). As a registered charity we currently have 14 FTE staff, 7 Trustees and 25 volunteers.
The Hampton Trust works with stakeholders at both national and local strategic level to address violence and abuse; and we undertake, and participate in research aiming to promote innovative evidenced-based solutions.
Delivery of our programmes currently takes place in Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Surrey and the Channel Islands. We are a charity offering national and local award winning programmes, and work in partnership with statutory and voluntary sector organisations to identify gaps in provision and develop needs led services.

Our Core Activities 

With experience in the domestic abuse arena spanning 19 years we now offer a range of services which include:

• ADAPT (domestic abuse prevention training) – Respect accredited domestic violence prevention programme with an integrated women’s safety service
• HMP prison course – a 12 week domestic abuse awareness raising course for inmates
• CARA (workshops to offenders receiving a domestic abuse conditional caution in partnership with Hampshire Constabulary)
• LINX – 12 week group work programme for young people who have experienced domestic abuse and involved in risk taking/offending behaviour
• Turnaround – A group work programme for child victims of domestic abuse
• DARE (Domestic Abuse Relationship Education) delivered to young people aged 11-16 years in all Guernsey schools
• Independent Sexual Violence Advocacy (ISVA) for survivors of rape, sexual violence or childhood sexual abuse
• Mentoring programmes: Ecology based work supporting adults/young people with mental health issues/1:1 work with young people at risk of exclusion/offending
• Training packages to professionals (e.g. Domestic Abuse General Awareness, Impact of Domestic Abuse on Children and Young People, Engaging domestic abuse perpetrators)

Current new developments include a perpetrator intervention and victim service for young people aged 17-23 years and a support package for adopted/fostered young people and their families/carers.