Nursery World - Spotlight on…Gail Tanner and Claire French

Co-managing directors, Toad Hall Nursery Group

What led you to work together?

Gail: I’ve worked in childcare for over 25 years. After relocating to Oxfordshire I worked as deputy manager in a small nursery group where I met another young deputy manager, Claire. In time we were promoted and worked well together running two separate sites, with a healthy degree of competition!

Claire: In 2017 we were approached to review Toad Hall Nursery Group. We were instantly captured by the excited children, passion of the staff and love of childcare from the company.

What do you love about your role and what are the challenges?

Claire: It’s been an exciting first year working at the varying locations and learning how the nurseries reach families across the many diversities of each place. Now we are actively looking to ‘buddy’ our existing nurseries with further sites to help with staff allocation and support. This is a challenge as many sites we have considered don’t provide the outside areas we are so keen to expand.

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