Aisling Return to Ireland’s 25 years of outstanding service to the most isolated sector of the Irish community in London was celebrated last Thursday (26 September) with a reception at the Irish Embassy hosted by the ambassador, His Excellency Adrian O’Neill and […]
Patrick Bernard Ryan, 13 January 1958 – 21 September 2019.
“Paddy came to Kairos 10 years ago and he was a volunteer at Linden Grove for the past eight years,” writes Mossie Lyons, Kairos director. “He was a great human being, with […]
The annual Kairos trip to Lourdes to assist with the Oblate pilgrimage of the Anglo-Irish Province took place from 13-19 September. Forty of us travelled to the foothills of the Pyrenees, undeterred by the Metro strike when we changed trains and stations in Paris. Helping the assisted guests in the Accueil (hospital) was the same […]
Beam celebrated its second birthday with a party at the beautiful St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, in London’s Bishopsgate on Tuesday evening. The crowd-funding website founded by Alex Stephany and his Beam Team in 2017, continues to help homeless men and women raise money to fund their training for employment. Kairos has been […]
Ever wondered how and why Kairos is Kairos? Look under the About us tab on the website for our Short Histories of Kairos, an occasional series about the people and places that make up our Kairos Community by Rory O’Connell, Kairos archivist. Start at the beginning with From Kilburn to Kairos.
Kairos bees have produced a terrific honey harvest this year – double last year’s at least. And, although there is yet to be an official weigh-in, those in the know are talking about a total of some 200lb […]
Farewell… to Peter Gill, who has been a counsellor and group facilitator with our Aftercare Programme since it started in 2007; he is joining the team at Southwark Irish Pensioners. Farewell… to Yvonne Douglas who for the past three years has run meditation groups and admin at Bethwin Road and leaves to build her freelance […]
Tim Penrice, manager of the Kairos Garden Day Programme, reports from Rijeka As part of my ongoing thinking and training in addiction treatment and group psychotherapy, I travelled to the International Group Analytic Society summer school programme, held this year in Croatia. Eighty un-like minded group therapists from across the Balkans, Eastern and Western Europe, […]
Kairos Community Trust has been awarded a Maudsley Charity Community & Connection grant to fund two part-time support workers to “support residents who are in recovery from substance misuse, in their transition from Kairos accommodation into independent accommodation”. They will join the supported housing Move-on team in October.