Meet Our Executive Leadership Team
Debbie Beadle – CEO
Debbie’s 25 year career has focused on advancing human rights and supporting people who have been marginalised or had fewer opportunities. She was previously the CEO at Cardiff Women’s Aid where she led the charity through a period of change and interim CEO at ECPAT UK, a leading children's rights organisation working to protect children from child trafficking and transnational child exploitation where she campaigned and advocated for changes in law to protect children in the UK Debbie is also a qualified child therapist.
Her award-winning career has led to Debbie being internationally recognised as a specialist in safeguarding, diversity and inclusion, gender-based violence, survivor participation, children’s rights, and social justice.
Debbie has also led a team of five women rowing 3000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to raise awareness of child trafficking, gaining two world records.
Gemma Vinton - Head of Service
Gemma is a former Detective Chief Inspector at Wiltshire Police where she led the tackling violence against women and girls team.
She has a strong history of multi-agency working, safeguarding vulnerable people and managing complex high risk situations.
Lydia Little - Head of Service
Lydia is a Doctoral Researcher in Psychological Trauma and has a background in managing peer mental health services in the third sector and working with young people with special educational needs.
She is passionate about improving the lives of those working in health and social care—especially through the lens of psychological trauma and lived experience. Outside of work Lydia also Co-Chairs the Wiltshire Autism Partnership.
Frankie Duddridge - Head of Service
Frankie is a qualified social worker and has over 14 years' experience in the sector. She is passionate about making a positive difference to the lives of the people she supports.
Jo Hatton - Head of People
Jo has extensive HR experience and has worked across both the private and charity sectors. She is focused on building and sustaining a strong and positive charity culture that is true to its values.
Jo is responsible for all people-related matters, driving improvement in areas such as recruitment, diversity, performance, learning and development and leadership as well as the transactional HR work that underpins this improvement. She is passionate about employee wellbeing and creating a healthy workplace culture.
Jess Gay – Head of Fundraising
Jess joined FearFree as the Head of Fundraising in the spring of 2022. She loves her role as she gets to see the organisation’s amazing supporters doing wonderful things to raise money and help change lives. Her role is extremely varied and every day she can be doing something different from developing fundraising campaigns, editing grant applications, speaking to new supporters, and working with our corporate partners. Part of her role also involves working with our amazing volunteer speakers that go out into community to raise awareness of our work and its importance.
Ian Wakeham– Head of Finance
Ian has over three decades of experience in charity finance. He oversees and manages all financial operations, systems, data and reporting for FearFree.
