Julie shapes the earliest stages of learning and development for 350+ children across the three Garrison settings. She does this by reinforcing her brilliant team of managers, deputy managers, room leaders and staff in partnership with parents, the military community and the civilian local authorities. Her background in the Military, early years education at NNEB and Degree level gives her a unique perspective of how the Pre-Schools can support each child’s earliest learning experience. 

Julie has been a trustee of the Charity that funds the Garrison Pre-Schools as well as a Governor position at the Wavell School. She firmly believes that the formative experience of a fun and nurturing learning environment at the earliest years, has a positive impact on a child’s future attitude to learning. 

Bobbie takes care of all our finances - including payroll, parent and supplier invoices. She also oversees all of our marketing - ensuring our website and adverts are up to date  and readily available for all to see.

Bobbie has over a decade of experience in customer service and finance - five of those in the Early Years industry. She holds a Level 3 Qualification in Business Administration and in Early Years Education.

Farhana has been working in the childcare sector for more than 17 years and works hard to keep the standards of childcare practice high. 

Farhana is responsible for the effective monitoring of best practice in our settings and delivers hands-on coaching and mentoring to our practitioners. Farhana will be responsible for ensuring that our staff are continuously working on their professional development and that their knowledge of the early years curriculum is always up to date resulting in high-quality care for our children and families.

Farhana has an abundance of training and experience, she holds a BA Honours in Early Childhood Studies, recently completed a course at Oxford University for Women’s Leadership and has joined Ofsted’s Future Leadership Development Programme in which she received training from a senior Ofsted Inspector to enhance her own professional development.

"I joined the Toye Box team at the beginning of 2022 as Deputy Manager - my daughter was attending the pre-school at the time and when the position came up it felt too good to be true – I already loved the setting as a parent and now I was able to be involved in the magic from the inside! 

There is a saying “never work with animals or children” – I must have missed the memo as it’s all I have ever done! I ran my own dog walking business before having my daughter and I have always aspired to be involved with children, whether this be through sports coaching, working in an after school club, being a 1:1 support assistant, nannying for various families and now as Manager at the wonderful Toye Box. 

I am extremely passionate about Toye Box and so proud of the fantastic team we have here, please know we are always here for you, our door is always open and no question is a daft question."

"I first started my childcare journey studying childcare at college and have now been working in childcare for the past 20 years. I've worked my way through from practitioner to Room Leader to Deputy and now my goal of becoming a Manager of a setting has come true. 

Being a military wife, I’ve been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to work in nurseries all around the UK and have also spent time as a one-to-one support for a child in Germany! 

I am also a mother of 3 children, so I understand how important early learning is for your little ones and I love having a helping hand in their growth and development."