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 […]
There are only 12 days to go until Elaine Anderson-Wright lines up at the start of the Brighton Marathon on Sunday 17 April, ready to run the 26 miles and 385 yards to raise money for Kairos. Elaine, who has run marathons in London, Paris and Jersey, has been in training since December. However, running […]
Congratulations to Sam Chapman for her award of a Southwark Star, in recognition of more than 100 hours volunteering in the London borough of Southwark for Kairos Community Trust. She received her award at a ceremony hosted by Dora Dixon-Fyle, Mayor of Southwark, last Thursday evening. ”I am delighted that Sam’s valuable volunteering work with […]
Training continues for Elaine Anderson-Wright, who is running the Brighton Marathon on Sunday 17 April for Kairos. “I ran my half-marathon run on Sunday. It was a great course – two laps of Wimbledon Common. The course was very muddy and quite hilly. Despite a sore ankle and getting a stitch at mile 10, I […]
We all know Linden Grove now as a 24-bed, CQC-regulated community detox hostel – with a beautiful airy dining-room, library, gym, counselling rooms and offices. But it was not always so. In fact, it was a big old house and a separate, disused church hall. In 2006-7, with the help of CRASH, the building […]
Thank you, Elaine Anderson-Wright, for choosing Kairos Community Trust as your charity to support when you run the Brighton Marathon on Sunday, 17 April. Elaine, who lives in Surrey, has run marathons in London, Paris and Jersey but Brighton will be her first marathon in seven years. She’s been in training since December and so […]