NE1’s 24 Doors of Christmas

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NE1, Newcastle’s Business Improvement District, are working with lots of businesses in Newcastle for their 24 Doors campaign this Christmas, including Newcastle Castle, Nexus and Deep North.

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00:00So, we're currently in Newcastle Castle, which is a venue taking part in 24 Doors this year.

00:0524 Doors is basically a city-wide cultural advent calendar, where a venue opens their

00:13doors each day to the public throughout December to kind of let the public know a little bit

00:18more about the history of Newcastle, the culture of Newcastle, and just experience new things

00:22that they might not have done before.

00:24So we've got a range of venues taking part this year.

00:26We've got some returning people, some old favourites.

00:29So we've got obviously Newcastle Castle, we've got the Theatre Royal, Bessie Surtey's House,

00:34a whole host of people taking part.

00:35And then we've also got some new faces as well, which is really exciting, doing some

00:39more experiential stuff.

00:40So we've got Deep North taking part this year, who are doing some donut making, which is

00:44really fun.

00:45And we've also got Nexus taking part too, who are inviting people into the Nexus Learning

00:50Centre to get to know a bit more about the metros.

00:53And also they get to experience the opportunity to go on a metro driving simulator as well,

00:58which is something you would never normally get to do, which is really fun.

01:01We've been involved for a few years with 24 Doors of Christmas.

01:04I think from our perspective, it's nice to be involved with something that's city-wide.

01:10We very much view the castle as being part of the lifeblood of Newcastle.

01:16It's iconic building, I suppose, it crops up on all the sort of council stuff around

01:20the city and what have you.

01:21This is the season when things start to, I guess, slow down a little bit for us.

01:26As you can probably feel, it's very cold in here.

01:28And just as the winter goes on, I think people are thinking, there are fewer tourists around,

01:33people are thinking more about shopping and getting their Christmas shopping ready.

01:37And it's nice just to be able to give people a little break for that and get some people

01:41into the building in one of our quieter seasons and just give them a chance to have a look

01:47around this kind of...

01:49And I think it fits very nicely with the idea of just getting the doors open.

01:53There are lots of magnificent doorways in the castle which we're glad to be able to

01:57open up for Christmas, really.

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