News
Dave Nimmo RIP
Dear Kairos friend and sometime resident Dave Nimmo died on Friday 8 July at King’s College Hospital. His funeral service will be held on Thursday, 28 July at 12.45pm at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 2 Knatchbull Road, Camberwell, London SE5 9QS. All friends are welcome. Instead of flowers, Dave’s mother has requested that donations […]
Try hands-on recovery in Peckham
Are you a Kairos resident who’s got some free leisure time and fancy trying something hands-on, like wood-working, restoring furniture, gardening, tinkering with old cars and the like? Then welcome to The Recovery Shed! Skills or no skills – no problem. If you want to give it a go, phone or text Michael on 07552 […]
Congratulations, Mr & Mrs McCulloch!
Our congratulations to Angie and Mick McCulloch on their marriage on Saturday at St James the Great in Elm Grove. Angie works at Bethwin Road and the couple’s Kairos family and friends turned out in force to join the wedding celebrations. All our best wishes for the future, Angie and Mick!
Kairos Community celebrates at Buckfast
As part of our 25th anniversary celebrations, thirty-nine members of Kairos Community Trust – residents, staff, trustees, volunteers, family and friends – returned to Buckfast Abbey for a long weekend of retreat and community (23-26 June). This was our fourth visit to the Benedictine abbey, situated at the foot of Dartmoor in the beautiful Devon […]
Listening to mothers
A surprise visit by Gail Freedman was one of the highlights of the Kairos women’s services review lunch last month. Gail was part of Kairos in the early days and she later returned home to Wolverhampton, where she gained her BSc in counselling psychology. She is now embarking on a PhD at the University of […]
Recovery-on-Sea with Aisling in Ireland
Alex McDonnell, Coordinator of the Aisling Project, writes about returning to Ireland with Kairos residents “Since Aisling began running therapeutic breaks to Ireland in 1994, we have had to deal with the often difficult relationship Irish emigrants can have with alcohol. Unlike other orgnisations, we recognised that if we want to offer our clients the […]
Just for today: the Garden BBQ Programme
AA’s 81st Founders Day and the Kairos Garden Day Programme Summer BBQ were celebrated by old and new recovery friends, former and current Kairos residents and GDP participants last Friday (10 June) in warm sunshine and a happy atmosphere. Our thanks to the volunteers who helped make it a special day. Sandra, Mark, Gary, Sam […]
Printing the Kairos story
Kairos Community Trust is 25 this year and we are celebrating with a book that traces our story from soup kitchen to the thriving charity we are today. The Gift of Time was printed this week, and when our editor went to check the colour proofs at TCW Solutions in Woolwich, she was hoping to […]
New signs to recovery
Our thanks to Rob Duddy at 9Signs for our smart new signs which are popping up on Kairos buildings across south London. Our residential rehab at Bethwin Road in Camberwell, the Garden Day Programme in Nunhead and Head Office in Streatham are the first to sport our new livery.
Women’s services review lunch
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 […]