As part of our 25th anniversary celebrations, thirty-nine members of Kairos Community Trust – residents, staff, trustees, volunteers, family and friends – returned to Buckfast Abbey for a long weekend of retreat and community (23-26 June). This was our fourth visit to the Benedictine abbey, situated at the foot of Dartmoor in the beautiful Devon […]
A surprise visit by Gail Freedman was one of the highlights of the Kairos women’s services review lunch last month. Gail was part of Kairos in the early days and she later returned home to Wolverhampton, where she gained her BSc in counselling psychology. She is now embarking on a PhD at the University of […]
Alex McDonnell, Coordinator of the Aisling Project, writes about returning to Ireland with Kairos residents “Since Aisling began running therapeutic breaks to Ireland in 1994, we have had to deal with the often difficult relationship Irish emigrants can have with alcohol. Unlike other orgnisations, we recognised that if we want to offer our clients the […]
AA’s 81st Founders Day and the Kairos Garden Day Programme Summer BBQ were celebrated by old and new recovery friends, former and current Kairos residents and GDP participants last Friday (10 June) in warm sunshine and a happy atmosphere. Our thanks to the volunteers who helped make it a special day. Sandra, Mark, Gary, Sam […]
Kairos Community Trust is 25 this year and we are celebrating with a book that traces our story from soup kitchen to the thriving charity we are today. The Gift of Time was printed this week, and when our editor went to check the colour proofs at TCW Solutions in Woolwich, she was hoping to […]
Our thanks to Rob Duddy at 9Signs for our smart new signs which are popping up on Kairos buildings across south London. Our residential rehab at Bethwin Road in Camberwell, the Garden Day Programme in Nunhead and Head Office in Streatham are the first to sport our new livery.
All Kairos women – past and present, clients and staff – are invited to the annual review of Kairos’s women’s services next Wednesday at Head Office. There will be a buffet lunch and a chance to exchange views and ideas in a relaxed atmosphere. Women’s Services Review Lunch Wednesday, 18 May at 1pm 1pm buffet […]
Our thanks to Irene McLaughlin in Dublin for opening her home last Thursday for a coffee morning that raised €1,300 (£1,009) towards the annual Kairos trip to Lourdes with the sick pilgrims on the Oblate pilgrimage in September. This figure included donations from Kerry, Cork and Offaly and invoved more than 50 people. In fact, […]
Congratulations and a huge thank-you to Elaine Anderson-Wright from everyone at Kairos for her run in Sunday’s Brighton Marathon. Not only did she run the 26 miles and 385 yards in 4 hours 41 minutes and 34 seconds, she raised £940 (£1,170.00 with Gift Aid) for us. Thank you – and thanks to everyone who […]
Throughout Kairos we like to treat everyone as an individual and put clients at the heart of their own recovery. With this in mind, the Kairos Garden Day Programme is now collaborating with Dr Karen Ersche and her team at the University of Cambridge, who are researching clients’ experience during recovery and what they feel […]