Nicola Benge - Project Manager

Nicola Benge - Project Manager Nicola is a committed, professional Project Manager with extensive experience
https://nicolabenge.com

I am a professional project manager and producer, with extensive experience devising, facilitating and delivering cultural projects across sectors including educational, health, heritage and the arts. My work involves collaboration and design with partners to manage projects, activities and events for successful delivery. In these roles, I am confident, well-networked, and skilled in engaging crea

tively with development, fundraising, partnerships and products. I am accomplished in supporting and motivating organisations and groups through participation and outreach, whilst managing programmes to improve cultural heritage, engagement, and support social development. This involves developing and collating existing information and materials, whilst forming a strategy to encourage the celebration and promotion of arts and heritage and cultural quarters. A key aim is to create new events and themes to showcase this heritage with dynamic schemes to engage audiences. Through my work, I aim to encourage participation and outreach through projects involving reminiscence, oral history, and archive material to involve a wide range of communities in creative activities. I am successful in fulfilling outcomes through exhibitions, resources and events for national organisations and charities, using these skills and my enthusiasm and focus to inform my work as a producer and cultural projects manager.

Magical after work dip at   beach yesterday with Frances Drummond A great opportunity to unwind and enjoy the cool water...
12/08/2026

Magical after work dip at beach yesterday with Frances Drummond

A great opportunity to unwind and enjoy the cool water 💧 after a hot day.

I am loving this weather ❤️

I know that farmers and those of Saxon origin are not and I know it's complicated climate wise, but sustained warmth and free access to vitamin D are making me feel so much more happy and upbeat this summer in spite of life's little trials. I wish it could be like this all the time. 🌞

Thanks Green Gathering festival 💚 I had a blast! I almost didn't make it this year for various reasons but at the last m...
03/08/2026

Thanks Green Gathering festival 💚 I had a blast!

I almost didn't make it this year for various reasons but at the last minute it all worked out and it was such a good festival this summer. Thanks to the organisers for working so hard on it 🎪.

Lovely to meet up with friends, hear Heathens All 30 year reunion, dance into the night under a full moon 🌕 , chop a lot of veg in crew catering, fail to sleep, and be hugged pretty constantly throughout the weekend.

Thanks to Jon Seagrave for a moving eulogy to Tony Lucas at Triban stage, and for the opportunity to be part of a small utopia for a few days albeit with one lacking in ice 🧊 for my gin and tonics!

If by any chance you're on the M4 in an ancient borrowed van that has broken electric windows and no air so you feel lik...
29/07/2026

If by any chance you're on the M4 in an ancient borrowed van that has broken electric windows and no air so you feel like you're in a sauna on the motorway, then I heartily recommend coming off at junction 14 and popping to for a breather.

A sojourn at the The Tutti Pole cafe which is next to the Kennet and Avon Canal where it costs a tenner for a full cream tea which includes homemade scones, extra hot water and enough cream to harden your arteries.

Turns out it was exactly what was needed when i did this a few hours ago! And they were lovely too.

Also found some great books Award-winning Independent Bookshop Hungerford, West Berkshire who suggested the cafe.

Some time just for me and a much needed trip with  to view the   exhibition Towner Eastbourne   This is a truly excellen...
24/07/2026

Some time just for me and a much needed trip with to view the exhibition Towner Eastbourne This is a truly excellent show encompassing the breadth of the Artists International Association group body of work from the 1920s onwards.

This largely working class artist collective was a politicised one making commentary about society and labour struggles as well as documenting war (Spanish civil war, and world war 2) alongside other more intimate familial moments. The show encompasses both 2 and 3 D work and includes explorations of constructivism, surrealism, and a social realist look at the world.

I absolutely loved this. It's a large and insightful collection which spans many decades and extensively documents 20th century creative thought. I heartily applaud the curatorial team for their work on this!

Really happy to hear that this NHS   project I managed has been nominated for a listeners choice award with the British ...
12/07/2026

Really happy to hear that this NHS project I managed has been nominated for a listeners choice award with the British Podcast Awards

You can vote for it using the link below! ✔️ ✅

https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/listeners-choice-2026 then search Living Histories.

Audio producers and both did an amazing job of turning the 37 oral histories collected from service users and mental health staff into this series of podcasts.

volunteer Shifu Ian Barnett voiced the intros and outros.

All the participants who shared their experiences were generous, honest and helpful and Heads On for developing such a ambitious project too.

This was supported by Heritage Lottery Fund and NHS Charities Together 💙 anf with the engagement of Sussex Partnership NHS

I'm running a free drop in creative workshop today as part of the Middle Street primary school final celebration event i...
11/07/2026

I'm running a free drop in creative workshop today as part of the Middle Street primary school final celebration event in from 1-5pm.

We'll be making faux stained glass in my session, other arts and crafts activities, giant Jenga, singing, an exhibition, food and drink, and Splat the Rat.

Come down and join us!

Middle Street PTA, Brighton

The names of 9,909 British Indian Army servicemen are now being added to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) c...
06/07/2026

The names of 9,909 British Indian Army servicemen are now being added to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) casualty database after they were uncovered by researchers. This is a very positive event after 100 years of omission.

I was lucky to work on the project in Brighton with Brighton Festival and Imperial War Museums 14-18 Now scheme through and later on project through Big Ideas , and QueenSpark Books Brighton's Graphic War graphic novel during the centenary commemorations around the First World War.

So much research and images uncovered with the help of volunteers and community groups at local archives and through too.

Being contracted to research the lives of Indian soldiers and their unexpected residence in our city as a result of injuries sustained in the front in France and Belgian was a privilege.

BBC News - Thousands of forgotten Punjabi WW1 soldiers recognised for first time
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqjpqjgxzgo

A day out in     today to explore   afternoon tea with Cath Tajima-Powell, the town's court rooms where I had the best w...
05/07/2026

A day out in today to explore afternoon tea with Cath Tajima-Powell, the town's court rooms where I had the best witchy chat, looking round the church and a grumpy llama!

Also popped to Pevensey Bay to enjoy the sound of the waves. I've not visited that beach before. Definitely would again.

Lovely day for it 🔆

A bold retrospective blending film, memory and movement to celebrate 25 years of boundary-pushing contemporary dance.Mar...
01/07/2026

A bold retrospective blending film, memory and movement to celebrate 25 years of boundary-pushing contemporary dance.

Marking 25 years since Michael Nunn and William Trevitt launched BalletBoyz with their debut production Pointless, Still Pointless is a thoughtful reflection on a company that has consistently challenged and pushed expectations of contemporary dance.

Rather than presenting a straightforward chronology, the production blends live performance with archive film and backstage conversations, creating what BalletBoyz describe as a ‘live dance documentary’. It is an affectionate look backwards while remaining firmly focused on where contemporary dance might go next....

Read the Brighton and Hove News What's On Brighton and Hove News
review here:

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/06/29/review-balletboyz-still-pointless-theatre-royal-brighton/

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