Exciting new project for Teen Challenge UK

The heart of Teen Challenge has always been evangelism. To seek and reach the most vulnerable marginalised people in our society.

We are delighted to announce that we have recently completed the purchase of a former hotel in Upper Broughton, Leicestershire. For many years we have been exercised about how we can best develop our training to equip the maximum number of people to work with those of the fourth world.

This facility provides us with amazing opportunities. It is 14 miles from Nottingham’s city centre and 17 miles from Leicester and has millions of people living within a 50 mile radius. We will be located just a short drive from many inner city areas where addiction and prostitution are so prevalent, yet we will be situated a mile and a half from the nearest village.

Until the 18th of March last year the property was trading as a Best Western Hotel but because of the recession and some excellent negotiation by a friend of Teen Challenge we have been able to purchase this 75 bedroom property at an amazing price. We have already been granted change of use by the local planning authority and we completed the purchase in April.

We will relocate our Training School to this site and this will allow us to take those we are training into key inner city areas while living close at hand. It will allow many who are not able to be resident full time to travel to our Training School on a daily basis. In order for our training to be most productive the site will also host our main male residential centre and our National Office. We will significantly increase the number of train- ing places we have available as well as increasing the number of bed spaces for male residents.

The prospect of being able to pursue outreach in so many key cities without having to first build a whole infrastructure in each one will release us to spend a maximum amount of time in direct contact with those in need.

Through our Training School we will be able to offer direct support and practical help to those churches that are seeking to work with the hurt- ing in these communities.