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Newcastle leisure leader STACK secures fresh investment to ramp up º£½ÇÊÓÆµ rollout

The company has received undisclosed investment from Westbrooke Alternative Asset Management º£½ÇÊÓÆµ

STACK also has a competitive socialising gaming concept called Sideshow which was first introduced at STACK Lincoln.(Image: Stack)

The Newcastle leisure business behind successful drinking, dining and entertainment destinations STACK has secured further significant investment to support its plans to roll out nationwide.

The original STACK was created in 2018 from 60 shipping containers on the site of the former Odeon Cinema in Newcastle, amid moves to become a social hub in the city centre while longer term plans for the plot of land were explored. While the inaugural STACK has long been dismantled, to make way for the city’s largest ever office scheme for HMRC and other Government units, the brand’s success has been replicated across the region and beyond.

Now Westbrooke Alternative Asset Management º£½ÇÊÓÆµ (Westbrooke º£½ÇÊÓÆµ) has provided a bespoke growth credit facility to STACK Leisure. The investment comes more than a year after the business secured investment from its backers Kings Park Capital as part of its growth plans.

The firm said STACK’s model – which offers both purpose-build entertainment and leisure operations created out of shipping containers along with repurposing existing, empty buildings, such as the former Argos store in Lincoln – has proved highly successful to date.

The facility has been structured to refinance existing debt and provide flexible capital to accelerate STACK’s national roll-out of new sites, which includes new developments in Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Carlisle, Durham, Bishop Auckland, Whitley Bay and Northampton. STACK currently operates three sites across the North East – at Seaburn, Middlesbrough and St James’ in collaboration with Newcastle United – along with STACK Lincoln.

STACK Seaburn near Sunderland(Image: DigitalCrush ltd 2025)

A second Tyneside site – STACK Newcastle – is due to open this autumn at the city’s Worswick Chambers and will replicate the winning formula of offering a range of top street food vendors, a selection of bars and entertainment spaces.

Harry Newall, head of origination at Westbrooke º£½ÇÊÓÆµ, said: “STACK represents the type of entrepreneurial, scalable business we seek to partner with, with an experienced management team executing a proven model in a growing but often undercapitalised segment of the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ leisure market.

“We’re particularly excited to support a platform that’s redefining F&B (food and beverage) led entertainment in regions outside London.”