Calling all Bethwin Road graduates!
All Bethwin Road graduates are invited to our annual reunion on Thursday, 15 December from 2-4pm.
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Postcard from Medjugorje 2016
As Kairos Community Trust’s 25th anniversary coincided with the Year of Mercy in the Catholic Church, the sponsor of our Medjugorje trips generously offered to fund a reunion visit to the shrine for anyone from Kairos who had been there over the past seven years. Thirty-seven people took up the offer and spent a week […]
Dulwich golfers’ third round for Kairos
Kairos thanks the Dulwich Circle of the Catenians for holding its third charity golf day for Kairos. Thirty-five golfers teed off at Sundridge Park Golf Club, Bromley, last Friday. They were joined by 35 more guests for the dinner that evening. The event now has its own competition plate, which was won by Catenian Peter […]
Celebrating CRASH’s Patrons
Kairos director Mossie Lyons was among the guests at CRASH’s annual Patrons’ Reception last Thursday night. Every year, the construction and property industry’s charity for the homeless holds an event to celebrate the companies and individuals who have given their valuable time and resources to support its cause. In this, its 20th Anniversary Year, CRASH […]
Gift from the Queen Mother’s Clothing Guild
Kairos Community Trust thanks the Queen Mother’s Clothing Guild for its generous donation of new bed linen and men’s clothes. The QMCG started in the 19th century with a group of women making clothes for an orphanage in Dorset and their first royal patron was Queen Mary. Today, the charity distributes more than 25,000 items […]
Where recovery can be an Open Book
Open Book is a programme run by Goldsmiths College, University of London, to enable people previously excluded from further education to discover the benefits and pleasures of learning. Launched in 2003, Open Book has helped hundreds of people – including many with offending and addiction backgrounds – complete undergraduate and postgraduate degrees as well as […]
Gerry Byrne at Irish Radio tunes into Kairos
Last Saturday night at the Shamrock Club, Welwyn Garden City, Gerry Byrne of Irish Radio presented a cheque for £1,175 to Kairos director Mossie Lyons. Gerry chose Kairos to be one of the three beneficiaries from the past two years’ sales of his CD, Gerry’s Radio Favourites. Thank you, Gerry, and all the patrons of […]
Postcard from Lourdes 2016
Sceptre and crown must tumble down and at the grotto be equal made with the poor crooked scythe and spade, writes Mossie Lyons, adapting the words of poet James Shirley. Lourdes is a great equaliser. There we share a common humanity, a common frailty and scraps of faith. From 17 to 22 September, 27 men […]
The way home to Portumna
There’s really nothing that Kairos, Google and a good friend can’t accomplish together, as Dave Newman found when he started looking for sheltered housing for his old house-mate, Michael… “Michael and I had lived in the same Kairos house (Gabriel Street) in south London for 10 years, so when director Mossie Lyons asked if I […]
Recovery is the message on Bethwin’s walls
The courtyard at Kairos Bethwin Road has long been a place of informal recovery – somewhere to sit and chat with a cuppa, do Step work in the sunshine or just have a quiet cigarette. Now, the message of recovery has been turned into a pair of vibrant murals by resident Charlene. On one wall, […]