The cameras were rolling at our Eagles Community Arena this week where our constructors Esh Group are working hard to meet the December deadline for our monumental move. Thanks to ITV Tyne Tees for this great report on the progress of our new ‘nest’ build so far and talking to our managing director Paul Blake…
The club remain bang on course to play BBL basketball at the brand new Eagles Community Arena before Christmas. And following the release of this season’s fixtures, owner Paul Blake admitted the finishing line is in sight following a decade of meticulous planning and tough negotiations. The 2018-19 campaign will see the organisation play in…
It has been a few weeks since we brought you an update from our Eagles Community Arena building site, so we are excited to show you how quickly our constructors Esh Group have got our new ‘nest’ flying-up. If you have passed the venue on Scotswood Road you will have seen a huge amount of progress recently…
The final workday of June was today and is recorded as another milestone in the build of our Eagles Community Arena as the court floor was being laid ready to receive the state-of-the-art flooring in the coming months. This part of the process is now almost complete and was all laid by our construction partner…
A long overdue blog methinks but in all honesty there has been little to blog about or has there? No, I don’t want to mislead you all, I haven’t a lot, if any, of the information that I’m sure you’re all craving but I have some opinions on some of the things that have been…
Our switch to the new Eagles Community Arena in November will be ‘massive for basketball in the region’. That’s the verdict of original Eagle Paul ‘Dougie’ Douglas with the Birmingham-based coach keeping a close eye on his former club’s landmark move. BBL stalwart Douglas played for the Eagles in the 1990s – a decade that…
Over the last few of weeks on site at the Eagles Community Arena build the internal walls have started going up, which is giving the building a real sense of it’s completed form. Meanwhile in the arena our constructors Esh Group continue the groundwork in the latest phase leading up to eventually laying the court…
On Saturday 9th June club and foundation staff were joined by some of our sponsors on a trek to the summit of the highest mountain in the British Isles to raise much needed additional funds for our Eagles Community Arena. After an early start around 7:45am ‘Team Eagles’ took on their Ben Nevis Challenge in…
On Saturday 9th June our Eagles Community Foundation and club staff will don their hiking boots and set-out on their way to the summit of Ben Nevis to raise funds which will go towards making the Eagles Community Arena into an extraordinary venue. Inspired from their visit to the building site yesterday and knowing first…
