Exciting times for Seaburn STACK as it gives its backing to Sunderland Echo's business awards

Seaburn STACK is set to double in size and there’s more good news as the business has joined the team of fantastic supporters of this year’s Sunderland Echo Business Excellence Awards.

Phase 2 of the plans for the Seaburn venue will get under way next year after statistics showed 100,000 people are turning up every month.

Exciting expansion plans include mini golf, darts, shuffleboard, bowling and karaoke booths, along with a large function space on the first floor.

Neill Winch, CEO of the Danieli Group which owns STACK Seaburn, said the group was “delighted to be a sponsor of the Sunderland Echo Business Excellence Awards and to help celebrate the positive and exciting achievements of businesses across the city.

“Since we opened STACK Seaburn we have seen at first hand what a vibrant and forward thinking city Sunderland is and we are very proud to be part of it –

and it’s continued growth.”

STACK has been ‘incredibly well received’ and has brought ‘fantastic street food and service lead retail providers, as well as first class entertainment, to both local people and to visitors to the city.”

The fast growing band is about to get even bigger.

Neill added: “STACK is a fast growing brand and we have recently announced the opening of another development in Lincoln and we have other sites in the pipeline with more locations to be added to the portfolio in the North East and beyond.

“We are committed to continue investing in the STACK Seaburn venue with plans to start work on phase two of the scheme in 2023. Phase two will see the

venue double in size with a competitive socialising gaming area that includes mini golf, darts, shuffleboard, bowling and karaoke booths, along with some

large function space on the first floor.”

It opened in September 2020 and now gets around 100,000 visitors every month as well as a 58,000-strong social media following.

“We feel that STACK really is a vital part of Sunderland’s fast growing leisure and hospitality scene and we look forward to helping that develop even

further.”

The awards finale is less than a month away.

A selection of judges met to sift through the 108 entries and agreed that the process had been really difficult but only because the standard of entries was so high.

Categories include Apprentice/Trainee; Best Independent Business; Best Large Business of the Year; Business in the Community; and Employer of the Year.

They also include Entrepreneur of the Year; Retail, Hospitality & Leisure Business of the Year; SME Business of the Year; Social Enterprise of the Year Award; and Sustainable Initiative of the Year Award.

The winners of other awards will be revealed on the night.

The next stage in the competition is to reveal the winners at our grand finals night at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland in November.

This year’s awards backers include Sunderland City Council,our partners in the competition as well as being the headline sponsors.

Also on board are the North East BIC, Chilli Mangoes, Marelli, Wilf Husband, Harrison and Brown, Thompson Waste, Gentoo, Sunderland University, The Stack, BGL, Audi, North East Ambition and Sunderland College.