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Happy second birthday, Beam!
Beam celebrated its second birthday with a party at the beautiful St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, in London’s Bishopsgate on Tuesday evening. The crowd-funding website founded by Alex Stephany and his Beam Team in 2017, continues to help homeless men and women raise money to fund their training for employment. Kairos has been […]
Kilburn to Kairos: a Short History
Ever wondered how and why Kairos is Kairos? Look under the About us tab on the website for our Short Histories of Kairos, an occasional series about the people and places that make up our Kairos Community by Rory O’Connell, Kairos archivist. Start at the beginning with From Kilburn to Kairos.
Bumper Kairos honey harvest
Kairos bees have produced a terrific honey harvest this year – double last year’s at least. And, although there is yet to be an official weigh-in, those in the know are talking about a total of some 200lb […]
Farewell and welcome: Kairos staff changes
Farewell… to Peter Gill, who has been a counsellor and group facilitator with our Aftercare Programme since it started in 2007; he is joining the team at Southwark Irish Pensioners. Farewell… to Yvonne Douglas who for the past three years has run meditation groups and admin at Bethwin Road and leaves to build her freelance […]
New horizons in treatment: Croatia 2019
Tim Penrice, manager of the Kairos Garden Day Programme, reports from Rijeka As part of my ongoing thinking and training in addiction treatment and group psychotherapy, I travelled to the International Group Analytic Society summer school programme, held this year in Croatia. Eighty un-like minded group therapists from across the Balkans, Eastern and Western Europe, […]
Maudsley Charity grant for new Kairos workers
Kairos Community Trust has been awarded a Maudsley Charity Community & Connection grant to fund two part-time support workers to “support residents who are in recovery from substance misuse, in their transition from Kairos accommodation into independent accommodation”. They will join the supported housing Move-on team in October.
Kairos is online with Wonderful* fundraising
Kairos Community Trust is now up and running on our new online giving platform, Wonderful* and you will find this button at the foot of every page. The Wonderful Organisation is an online giving platform which ensures that 100% of donations and Gift Aid reaches the charities it is intended for (unlike many other online […]
A Linden Grove welcome for the McGills
Kairos residents, staff, trustees and friends gave the McGill family a warm welcome yesterday when Brendan and his parents, Roísín and Gerry, were our guests at lunch. Brendan has raised more than £3,400 for Kairos on his round-Ireland Odyssey by bicyle…
Congratulations, Brendan, for completing your Irish Odyssey
‘Here I am at journey’s end and here are the stats: 1,777 miles cycled with 86,092 feet of climb, over 39 days with 8 non-cycling days. Over £2,500 raised!‘ Brendan McGill arrived back in Dublin last Saturday (6 July), so completing his Irish Odyssey – a cycling circumnavigation of the island of Ireland to visit […]