The 2019 World Transplant Games are coming to the North East and our Eagles Community Arena is excited to be the host venue for basketball next week. Thousands of transplant athletes and their friends and family will descend on the region with participants from 59 countries across the world, including Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mongolia and…
As the return of BBL and WBBL action approaches, along with the new NBL and CVL seasons for our academy and junior club players, preparations are taking place both in and outside our Eagles Community Arena. Last month our Eagles Community Foundation, the charity who own and operate the ECA, appealed to Eagles basketball fans…
We have been in our new Eagles Community Arena home since the start of the year and as a venue owned and operated by our foundation, in keeping with its core values, we are very keen that the arena is both part of the local community and adds to it. As summer is now upon us…
Esh Group today renewed their sponsorship of Newcastle Eagles Basketball for a 10th consecutive year in a deal which also includes support of our Eagles Community Foundation. In January this year the group’s Esh Build division completed their transformation of a derelict parcel of land on Scotswood Road, in the West End of Newcastle, into our new purpose-built…
This July we have lots going on to keep you active at our Eagles Community Arena. In conjunction with Newcastle College, the Lawn Tennis Association and North East Dance, our Eagles Community Foundation are pleased to announce the following taster courses, which are all available free of charge across July 2019. Sessions are open to…
Today is National Refill Day and as the latest reports state that the average person in the UK will use 150 single use plastic bottles every year, if just one in ten was refilled once a week we’d have 340 million less bottles in circulation. So we are supporting the Refill campaign along with our…
This July and August our Eagles Community Foundation have a huge Summer Basketball Camp taking place for young players to get on court in the school holidays. Eagles camps are a great way to keep the kids active in the break. The young players will develop their basketball, learn new skills, play competitions and have…
More than 1,000 students gained essential career guidance as the Eagles Community Arena hosted the business brains of the future. Young people from across the North East descended on Newcastle to take part in the final Building My Skills session of the academic year. And 180 business guests volunteered their time and expertise to put…
On Friday 24 May 2019 we hosted our first ever End of Season Awards Dinner at our new Eagles Community Arena and our first event of its size in our new home. Just two years beforehand the club and foundation told everyone attending the organisation’s 21st birthday party that plans were in motion towards the…
