All of our current staff are freelance or on company contracts.
Lucy Bailey-Wright – Activities Planner
With a background in bringing heritage to life, theatre, youth work, events management and storytelling. Lucy came to work for CHT in 2019. Lucy leads our programme of tours, partnership events, festivals, education programme and activities. Lucy is a Director of Highbury Orchard Community and is connected to lots of local groups.
Alan Bale from Sustainable Life – CHT Volunteer Co-ordinator
Alan began his career as a gardener, and spent some years as a tree surgeon, but for the last ten years he has been working with volunteers, mostly outdoors. He has been with the Trust for eighteen months, leading the volunteers to victory as they reshape and restore the beautiful gardens of Highbury.
Emma Bangham- Trust Co-ordinator
Emma is an arts professional with over 30 years of experience working in arts marketing, programming, administration, finance and project management within the cultural and charity sectors. A passionate champion of Birmingham’s rich cultural life, diversity, and community spirit, she is delighted to use her skills to support the work of the Trust.
Lucy Simpson – Head Gardener Services
Lucy has extensive experience of historic restoration, volunteer management, and sustainable practice. She has developed her skills over twenty years working in a variety of listed historic landscapes, parks, and gardens for the National Trust, and shares CHT’s passion for restoring the Highbury grounds to their original splendour.
Katie Norgrove – Project Manager
Katie Norgrove is CHT’s joint project manager for the development stage of its major project. She has extensive experience as a consultant in the heritage sector as a founder of Cultural Consulting Network. She grew up in Kings Heath and was many moons ago Birmingham’s Heritage Development Officer.
Katie has been an expert advisor, monitor and mentor for the Heritage Lottery Fund for over 20 years on a broad mix of conservation, capital and audience development projects. She is currently mentoring projects both in development and delivery phases that range from a Grade I listed church in a rural village in Herefordshire to the redevelopment of the Holocaust and Second World War Galleries at the Imperial War Museum.
Florence Andrews (Focus Consultants) – Project Manager
Florence is an experienced Chartered Surveyor and Project Manager with a background in community development within the cultural and regeneration sectors. NLHF funded projects that Florence has worked on include Pitzhanger Manor, Walpole Park, Gunnersbury Park and Museum, St. Marylebone, The Amelia Scott – Tunbridge Wells, Barking Townscape, and St. Mary’s Walthamstow. Katie and Florence said, “We are really thrilled to be working with the Chamberlain Highbury Trust to help make their dream of returning Highbury to its former glory for 21st century citizens of Birmingham a reality.”
Our Project Managers and Trustees are working with a brilliant team to plan the restoration of Highbury.
- Project Managers
- Quantity Surveyor
- Architectural Design Team:
- Lead Designer
- Conservation Architect
- Principal Designer
- Services Engineer
- Structural Engineer
- Landscape Architect
- Fire Engineer
- Access Consultant
- Interpretation Planners and Designers
- Fundraiser
- Business Planner
- Evaluation Consultant
- Solicitors