| **Rotary Club | Long Eaton |
| **Contact details | Paul Hopkins Home: 0115 849 9932 Mobile: 07817 644 595 Paul.hopkins1@ntlworld.com |
| **Project Title | Long Eaton Rotary Engages Chamber – Canaan Trust |
| **Beneficiary | Canaan Trust – homeless centre |
| Contact details | Kevin Curtis Office: 0115 946 4903 Mobile: 07860 727 575 kevinc@canaan-trust.co.uk |
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| **Background | Canaan Trust provide a holistic person centre for homeless men and women. They are in the process of acquiring the other half of the semi-detached 3 storey Edwardian property on Main St. Long Eaton that they already own. They are planning to covert the property into an 8-bed centre for homeless women. |
| **Project Benefits | To provide in initial shelter for homeless women and longer term support to enable them to obtain their own accommodation and become self-sufficient. |
| Objectives | To complete the acquisition of the property by the end of April 2022 and convert the property by December 2022. |
| Scope of work | To achieve the objectives the Trust is seeking as much volunteer support from corporate business, local companies and volunteers skilled and unskilled. They require architects to design the conversion; someone with the necessary knowledge to oversee the conversion project; suppliers to provide materials and volunteers to undertake skilled and unskilled work. |
| Project Costing | The Canaan Trust has costed the project but as it is multi-phased with the Trust bearing some of the costs and a reliance on material donations it is not relevant |
| Material requirements | Electrical and plumbing equipment and decoration materials. |
| Success Criteria | The building becomes fully operational facility for homeless women. |
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| Key Assumptions | The property is acquired by the Canaan Trust. |
