Leicester Arena and Morningside Pharmaceuticals have agreed a three year naming rights sponsorship for the arena, which will henceforth be called the Morningside Arena, Leicester.
The 3,000 capacity arena is the largest in Leicester, and, as well as being the home of the national basketball Club champions, the Leicester Riders, the Leicester Arena has become the go-to venue for a wide range of sporting, entertainment, religious, and comedy events, as well as being a venue for a wide range of community activities.
Recent major Events have included a religious event with the Archbishop of Canterbury, a FIBA World Cup Basketball Qualifier between Great Britain and Greece, a John Bishop comedy event, multiple Bollywood music events, televised boxing events, national karate championships, and international wheelchair rugby and basketball events.
The arena also has a strong community focus, being utilised by the underage programmes of the Riders, by students from Leicester College for coursework and enrichment, by students from Leicester’s two universities, and a for wide range of other community activities.
Dr Nik Kotecha, OBE, Chief Executive of Morningside said, “Morningside Pharmaceuticals is committed to making a difference to our local community and the Leicester Arena is a superb new facility for the city, the county and for the East Midlands.”
“Through this partnership, we will be able to offer the venue for one day a month to local and national community projects which will be extremely valuable to all that benefit.”
“We are thrilled to be making this commitment to improve the overall experience for users of the venue, and to support the use of the arena for community and charitable activities.”
According to Leicester Arena Director and Riders Chairman Kevin Routledge, “The Arena and all its partners are absolutely delighted with this naming rights sponsorship with one of Leicestershire’s great and global firms.”
“We have all been working very hard to put the Leicester Arena on the sporting and entertainment map as a flexible high class arena, without losing our community focus, and to be able to work with Morningside Pharmaceuticals will be hugely beneficial to our strategy.”
About Leicester Arena
The Arena is a partnership of Leicester Riders, Leicester City Council and Leicester College. The Arena was funded by the partners, and Sport England and the Leicester & Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership, and a number of commercial partners.
The Arena is the home to the champion Leicester Riders ND is also a regional basketball centre of excellence. It also serves as Leicester College's Sport teaching and learning facility and as a large multi-use sports venue the local community. It is also home to Leicester Cobras Wheelchair Basketball Club. Leicester College will use the Arena during term time as part of the teaching and learning offer to all Leicester College learners attending sports courses. And all of the College's 25,000 students have access to the facilities through a membership scheme for sports enrichment activities.
About Morningside Pharmaceuticals
Morningside Pharmaceuticals Ltd is a large local Loughborough based business dedicated to delivering first class medicines to those in need for over 25 years.
The company manufactures and supplies a wide range of branded and generic medicines.
Morningside’s medicines are delivered to NHS hospitals and pharmacies twice daily, as well as being supplied to some of the largest aid agencies in the world.
