Getting clean and sober in your own language is hard work, but imagine how hard it is to share in group or at a meeting in a foreign language. However, many visitors and immigrants find the determination and courage to do so. Like Kairos graduate, Krzysztof from Poland, who has gone a step further and […]
The large dining-room at Linden Grove – once a church hall – and the balcony overlooking it were packed to overflowing on Tuesday night for this, the 24th Annual General Meeting of Kairos Community Trust. Residents past and present, staff, trustees, volunteers, our extended families and friends were welcomed by Hanora Morrin, chair of Trustees.The […]
RAPt (the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust) has been working with Kairos for the past two years to support former offenders in their sobriety and integration back into the community. Here, Hattie Moyes, RAPt’s research and development manager, reviews this successful and ongoing partnership. RAPt is the leading provider of intensive, abstinence-based drug and alcohol […]
Thank you everyone who took part in the Dulwich Catenians and Holy Ghost Fathers golf day and dinner earlier this month at Sundridge Park Golf Club, Bromley that raised £4,035 in aid of Kairos Community Trust.
Friends, colleagues, residents and former clients gathered at Linden Grove on Friday lunchtime to bid farewell to Frank Smith, manager of Linden Grove, who is leaving after 18 years with Kairos. “Frank has been one of Kairos’s longest serving heroes,” writes Kairos Trustee Sarah Potter. “From the earliest shoe-string chaotic days, he has been a […]
Twenty-seven people from Kairos (workers, residents and former residents) travelled to Lourdes last week. We went to help with the sick pilgrims of the Oblate pilgrimage from Dublin, writes Mossie Lyons. Over and above the five days of hard work, it was a most unifying, uplifting and enriching experience for the group. The sort […]
For the second year, the Dulwich Catenians & Holy Ghost Fathers are dedicating the proceeds of their charity golf day and dinner to Kairos Community Trust. It will take place on Friday 9 October at top local course, Sundridge Park Golf Club, Bromley. Golfers will tee off at 11am and dinner will start at […]
Tomorrow, twenty-seven Kairos men and women will set off to Lourdes. They will spend five days helping in the hospital there, working with disabled and sick pilgrims from Dublin. This is the sixth year that director Mossie Lyons and a group from Kairos have joined the annual Oblate Anglo-Irish Pilgrimage.
Father John Kitchen, co-founder of Kairos, has been named Vice Provincial of the English Province of the Spiritan Order, often known as the Holy Ghost Fathers. He will continue to be based in London, although the order is relocating this week from Bickley to their new House in Cheshire. Our congratulations to Father John and […]
The art project City of Stories – made by architects Levitt Bernstein and artist Hanna Benihoud with the help of Kairos men and women – is on show at the ArtHouse in Crouch End, London N8. It will be part of the venue’s Street Stories season.