An £8m project to provide the Newcastle United Foundation with its own city-centre base was completed yesterday. Newcastle United legend Shola Ameobi cut the ribbon to officially mark the centre’s opening.
On the former site of Murray House in Diana Street, just a stone's throw away from St James’ Park, the facility, known as NUCASTLE, will provide an important base for the charity and the tens of thousands of people it helps across the North East. In front of some of the region’s most well-known faces - including Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe and Sir John Hall - the end of the five-year project was particularly poignant for Ameobi, who used the services at Murray House when he was a child.
Murray House served generations of kids from the community but the building had fallen into disrepair before the Foundation stepped forward to hand it a new lease of life
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