Helen Mullen

Preschool Manager

Our amazingly experienced manager Helen, joined us in January 2023 and has transformed our nursery since then.  

Helen has a life long passion for children's education.  She began her career at Dreghorn and worked here, supporting and loving hundreds of children, for almost 20 years before leaving in 2018 to expand her career. 

We are absolutely delighted she has returned and all our staff and parents agree, the difference she has made in her first 6 months have been truly incredible.  

Kavita Lama ​

Deputy Manager.  Responsible for 2-3 years care provision.​​
Namaste!   Motivated by my love and passion for working with children I pursued my career and education to become an Early years practitioner.

I love every minute of the day, watching them learn and grow and I believe that it is our responsibility and commitment to honor them in order to help them uncover the world of endless possibilities they bring along with them.

Most importantly, I love being around children and I feel I learn a lot from them too . 

Lindsay Budu-Forson

​Lead Practitioner

​I am a mum to 3 children.
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​It is since having them I have developed an ever growing passion for Early Years Education.  

I love watching the children in the nursery grow and flourish in our home from home settings.

Andrea Stewart

Nursery Support Worker ​​

I am delighted to be working at Dreghorn Preschool with our 2 year olds in Bumblebees.  

I love working working with children and look forward to getting to know all the little ones and having lots of fun. I am very organised and passionate about childcare and love doing lots of fun activities.  

​I am very approachable please feel free to come speak with me.

Tina Robinson

​Nursery Support Worker

I am a mum to 3 girls, a 16 year old and 8 year old twin girls. I have been a military wife for nearly 13 years.  I have lived in various places including Germany and Cyprus.  

I have worked with children for 2 and a half years and previous to this I worked as a midwifery assistant in a births centre.  

I adore working with children and it is my passion, to make sure they have the best and most fun start to early education.  

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OUR TRUSTEES

Our Trustees are the management team who are responsible for governing the charity and directing how it is managed and run.  They are all volunteers who donate their time and expertise to run the charity and help support military families in Edinburgh.  All our trustees are legally answerable to OSCR, the Scottish Charity Regulator and are trusted to look after our assets and make sure we fulfil our charitable purpose. 

They work hard to make sure that Dreghorn PreSchool offers the highest standard of childcare for military families and are always keen to receive feedback from parents.  If you would like to contact them please email [email protected]

Sandy Towers

Chairperson

I am a Chartered Accountant with over 40 years experience in the private sector working for a wide range of blue chip companies including KPMG and Veolia. 

​I am also the owner and Director of Colinton Private Nursery, a private sector nursery in Colinton which cares for 120 children from the ages of 0-5, which I run with my wife Marion.  

I am also Chair of the Edinburgh branch of the National Day Nurseries Association, so I am able to draw on my expertise and wealth of experience in the private nursery sector. 

I have a number of children at Colinton whose parents are dual serving and I became a trustee of Dreghorn Preschool in order to give something back to the military community.

Sarah Stone

Trustee

​I started volunteering at Dreghorn when my children Harry and Martha were there.  My husband serves in the Army and I agreed to become a trustee and agreed help run the nursery because it is such a special place; my son was 3 when he started and he was really unsettled by the move to Edinburgh and his father being away on an operational tour. 

Dreghorn was exactly what he needed; it gave him consistency and a secure, stable environment.  Both he and my daughter Martha thrived and it gave them the best start they could ever have had.   I honestly think it changed their lives.  

​I felt so lucky to have had access to it and I continue to volunteer because I want to make sure other military families can have what I had. 

John Barry

Trustee

I left school in 1965 and after 5 yrs of working in the waste reclamation business, I, fortunately, fell into the insurance/financial services profession. I really enjoyed providing long term financial planning advice for clients.

I managed to survive the financial services profession for over 45 years. I retired just over 4 years ago. Hopefully, my business experience will help others and help expand the Dreghorn Nursery.

Pam Davis

Trustee

I became a trustee at Dreghorn as I am a military wife with 4 children so I really understand how important great childcare is for serving families. 

I am relatively new to the team and looking forward to working with everyone to help the preschool go from strength to strength.

Volunteers

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We always welcome help from parent volunteers. 

​If you have a skill you could share, a culture you would love to teach us about, or would just like to come and help us plant some veggies in the garden or read some stories with the children please do get in touch.  ​

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