Marion Turnock, née Bean, enjoyed a teaching career in Cambridgeshire, Aberdeen and Leicester, taking a B Phil Ed from the University of Leicester in 1994 and being certified as a Royal Scottish Country Dance Society teacher in 2001. In her school teaching career, Marion was a member of the School Management Team with responsibility for the Middle School and a large number of subjects. In 1995, Marion set up a charity - Patarlagele Villages Romania - to support Patarlagele Hospital by providing medicine and for many other local needs, including funds for schoolchildren in the area to continue their education after the age of fourteen and clothing and other items for less well-off families.