The Committee

Our Pre-School is a charitable incorporated organisation, registered with the Charities Commission and run for the benefit of the children, their families and the community. As such, we have a Management Committee (made up of volunteer parents or carers, or members of our local community) that is responsible for the Pre-School and its staff. We are always very keen to recruit new Committee Members! If you would like to find out a little more about supporting our pre-school in this way, please do give us a call on 01372 721 111!

Key roles of the Committee

Committee members are the charity trustees of the Pre-School and meet to discuss key operational and strategic matters, as well as taking on specific responsibilities from reviewing policy changes, undertaking risk assessments and fundraising.


The Committee Members

Committee members are elected at our Annual General Meeting, which is normally held in October each year.

Hayley Simms

Committee Chair

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Hayley Simms

Committee Chair

Hayley is mum to Margot and has been on the committee since 2021 when she joined as Deputy Chair before stepping up to the role of Committee Chair in November 2022.

Hayley originally trained as a midwife and now works in clinical audit for The Children’s Trust in Tadworth. In her spare time she enjoys long walks, reading and baking.

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Kristy Bond

Committee Member

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Kristy Bond

Committee Member

Kristy has lived in Epsom for the last 9 years with her cat, husband Iain and their two children Harrison and Jackson.

Originally from Fulham Kristy worked as a PA in the city for over 10 years, and has been a full time mum for the last 4 years. She completed her Reiki level 1 a few years ago, and is planning to continuing her studies once her children are at school.

Kristy enjoys being outdoors and travel, and in her younger years spent 3 months working in Greece and 6 months travelling Australia and Thailand. She also enjoys eating out and spending time with her family.

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Nick Speirs

Treasurer

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Nick Speirs

Treasurer

Nick joined the Committee as Treasurer in December 2020.

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Jennifer Hopkins

Member

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Jennifer Hopkins

Member

Jennifer has resided in Epsom with her husband for the past 10 years. Jennifer is originally from Canada but came to London to study law. Jennifer and her husband moved to Epsom to start a family, and have two daughters.

Jennifer joined the committee in 2023, while her youngest daughter attended the preschool.

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Henrietta Knell

Member

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Henrietta Knell

Member

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Julia Jones

Committee Member

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Julia Jones

Committee Member

Jules joined the Committee in February 2025. She has two children, Harry who attends St Martin's School and Oscar, who is in his last year at Pre-School!

Jules worked as a teacher for 14 years, including 8 years as an Early Years leader in a primary school, before taking a career break to be a full time mum. In her spare time Jules enjoys travelling, live music, playing the piano and walking her dogs.

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Katherine Wilkinson

Committee Member

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Katherine Wilkinson

Committee Member

Katherine joined the Committee in February 2025. Katherine works as a teacher and her daughter, Hannah, attends the Pre-School!

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A few words from a parent...

Thank you to all the team for such an enjoyable fun time! It's gone too quickly, we are very sad to leave, but very happy that our child is now so ready for his next adventure!

- A parent - summer 2018

Contact Us

If you have any questions, please let us know and we would be happy to help.

Parents/carers are welcome to visit us with their child. We have many visitors and therefore like to arrange appointments.

You can contact us each weekday, between 8.30am and 3pm on:

01372 721111

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