Claire has had a leadership role at Stop Domestic Abuse since 2001. 

Claire’s qualifications include:

• Professional Diploma in Housing and Graduate Foundation Course in Housing (Solent University),
• Enabling Learning – Specialist Level (University of Chichester),
• Foundation Course in Fundraising and Certificate of Fundraising (Institute of Fundraising),
• Domestic Homicide Review Chair (OCN accredited). 

She is an alumni of the fifth cohort of the “Leadership for Empowered and Healthy Communities Programme” (a programme aimed at leaders in health and social care who want to be part of a movement for change and reform) and in 2021 completed ACEVO’s Next Steps Leadership.

Her experience in the domestic abuse/violence against women and girls sector includes frontline contact with survivors as well as strategic and organisational leadership and development.