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The Russell Foster Tyne and Wear Youth leagues were created through one of the region’s most successful marketers and lately have around 23,000 young players spread across five venues in the North East, based on a £2 million purpose-built newbottle.
Now, the league’s parent charity, the Russell Foster Sports Foundation, which owns and operates the site, is an ambitious move towards a 35-acre former equestrian centre near Leamside.
In addition to a larger car park, the new one includes a covered facility, spacious enough to house 3 youth football fields.
A plan-making application, subsidised through Sport England, has now been submitted to Durham County Council and, if approved, would give even more young players the chance to follow in the footsteps of football greats, according to the league’s founder Russell Foster.
He said: “Ours are the most important football leagues in the country, and while I wouldn’t be happy to leave Newbottle, which has been fantastic, Leamside will allow us to further expand what we do. “
Russell Foster, one of the Northeast’s best-known entrepreneurs, now divides his time between the UK, where his business interests come with an engineering plant in Bradford, several restaurants in the Northeast and a land progression company, and South Africa.
He is involved in many charitable organizations on the west coast of the country, adding a soup kitchen and an animal welfare center, and he also owns the English-speaking church in Velddrif.
It has built a parish hall, which is used throughout the community, a full retirement village and is in the process of completing the final touch of a 38-bed medical center.
Scheduled to open in October, it is supplied with all the newest appliances and will supply emergency facilities, adding ambulances and paramedics 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
His business interests in South Africa include two wonderful restaurants, a boutique hotel, a craft brewery and a distillery, and his most recent task is to provide a sanctuary for the homeless and abused.