Tickets for our annual Grand Christmas Draw are on sale now: £2.50 per book of five tickets. Prizes include: £100 cash, a £50-meat voucher, a Christmas hamper and a Christmas cake! The winning tickets will be drawn on 19 December at Head Office. To get your tickets, contact Mossie Lyons at Head Office.
Congratulations to Linden Grove staff members Vincent Mahe and Simon Woods for achieving their Level 5 Diplomas in Management and Leadership for Health and Social Care.
Our congratulations to Robert Druce on his sell-out success at the New Hanbury Project exhibition last night!
We want to highlight the two designated world awareness events falling on the same day today, 10 October: World Homeless Day and World Mental Health Day. What a convergence of two realities very close to the heart of Kairos!
Our thanks to the Dulwich Circle of the Catenians who donated the proceeds of their annual charity golf match to Kairos for the fifth year in a row. The event took place on Friday 14 September, at Sundridge Park – where we had a record turn out of 38 players. It was a great day […]
The five days spent in Lourdes last week with the annual Oblate pilgrimage of the Anglo-Irish Province was a special experience for the 34 Kairos men and women who made the train journey to the foothills of the Pyrenees to help in the hospital. Tough, tiring and never far from the raw emotion of being […]
As part of their continuing work on making a Karios archive, Rory O’Connell and Marsha Dunstan went to the East Sussex Archive near Brighton for a one-day workshop on preserving the records of UK charities last Monday. The idea behind the event was that historic records of many charities in the welfare sector, particularly those […]
Beam, the crowd-funding website that helps homeless men and women to train for employment, is celebrating its first anniversary this week. And, right from the beginning, Kairos has been one of the homeless charities recommending individuals to the scheme. The Beam team explains: “Through new technology, Beam helps people use their strengths, skills and passions […]
This is a week when we’re reminded of how we work in partnership with whole range of different organisations… On Thursday 6 September, CRASH, the building industry charity, held its Annual Patrons Meeting. CRASH’s contribution to Kairos over the past 14 years is well documented. Well done, CRASH, on an outstanding APM held on the […]
Our thanks to the Rotary Club of Woolwich for inviting Kairos Community Trust to be one of the recipients yesterday of a generous donation of bedding and household goods from Qantas airways. The gift of duvets, blankets and mattress covers will keep many new residents warm this winter; and the crockery and cutlery are also […]