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Welcome, Giam-Pierro!
Kairos Community Trust welcomes Giam-Pierro Mozzi, who joins the Supported Housing team part-time. The 10-strong team works with more than 170 men and women living in 30 Kairos move-on houses across six London boroughs.
Big Lottery grant for new Kairos Recovery Hub
Kairos is delighted to announce that the National Lottery has awarded us a Big Lottery grant to fund a complex-needs support worker for three years. S/he will focus on the 10 residents in our two houses that will form the new Kairos Recovery Hub, centered on our community detox hostel at Linden Grove. “This grant […]
Kairos Trustees Are Trading Places
This month Hanora Morrin, Chairman of Kairos Community Trust for the past 12 years, has stepped down to rejoin the Board of Trustees, and Trustee Paul Carter has stepped up to take over as Chairman. So ‘Farewell’, ‘Thank you’, ‘Welcome’ and ‘Congratulations’ are all in order. Welcome, Paul Carter! Our new Chairman is a familiar […]
20 years at number 22 Linden Grove
Kairos arrived at 22 Linden Grove, Nunhead, 20 years ago this month. The building was a wreck but staff and volunteers (like our friend pictured here), managed to make it habitable by 26 March, when Fr John Kitchen, Tony Walsh and six residents moved here from Stonhouse Street in Clapham. In the 20 years since […]
Moving on to the Oval
Kairos has a new move-on flat – at the Oval. It’s home to three Kairos residents who are heading towards independent living, through different forms of training. They’ve all relocated from regular move-on houses in South London and, although support workers visit regularly, it’s support with a light-touch. “Three’s a good number and the flat […]
Green light for Limesdale Gardens
It all started in 2016… Sophie Hanrahan and the CGL team on their first visit to Limesdale Gardens. Brent Council has granted Kairos Community Trust planning permission to extend our move-on house at 16 Limesdale Gardens. This will enable us to add four more bedrooms and build a single-storey extension at the rear to enlarge […]
Kairos students at City Lit
Martin in the sculpture workshop on the Foundation Art and Design course. Congratulations to the three Kairos graduates who are currently doing courses at the City Lit in art and in counselling.
Visitors from Veterans Aid
Today, Kairos had a chance to welcome Dorothy Jones, Veterans Aid’s new (and first-ever) Fundraising Manager. She came to Linden Grove with VA’s Head of Addiction Services, Phil Rogers, on his weekly visit to veterans referred by VA to Kairos services. Kairos is proud to have been working with VA since 2008.• More info about […]
More rooms for recovery at Linden Grove
The three new counselling and meeting rooms at Linden Grove have been completed and are now in use. This is the first project that has been built by Kairos staff from start to finish. Denis Walsh and Malachy Carter (who has joined Kairos part-time), created the three rooms and corridor from the old exercise room.“These […]