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A round of golf for Kairos
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 […]

Kairos team sets off to Lourdes
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’s new post
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 […]

City of Stories continues at the ArtHouse
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.

Diploma for Simon Woods
Congratulations to Simon Woods, Group Facilitator and Support Worker at Linden Grove, for achieving his Level 5 Higher Professional Diploma in Counselling and his registration with the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP).

Three in a row, in Brent
We’re pleased to announce the purchase of 16 Limesdale Gardens, Burnt Oak in the London Borough of Brent. “It is the right house at the right time, a Kairos moment,” says Mossie Lyons. “We already have numbers 18 and 20, so now we have a community in north London of three neighbouring houses with […]

Cobb’s Cowboys ride into Eugenia Road
Hats off to Regional Sales Manager Mike Cobb and his team of business, regional development and specification account managers from Dulux Trade […]

Welcome to the City of Stories
On Saturday, the Kairos team who had helped to build the City of Stories joined the public open day for the finished project in Dalston. The upside down city of cardboard – actually a 1:50 scale representation of the Dalston skyline – was suspended from scaffolding in the front courtyard of architects Levitt Bernstein as […]

Good company on the Garden path
The second Open Day BBQ at the Garden Day Programme celebrated Kairos recovery and the 80th birthday of AA in the sunshine of 10 June 2015 – and no one went away hungry this year!It was a real coming together of recovery professionals and community set to the music of Jim Smith and the food […]
Visit the City of Stories on Saturday
Remember all that cardboard in the dining-room at Linden Grove a few weeks ago? Come and see what Kairos residents have helped to make and how all those mysterious shapes have been transformed into the City of Stories this Saturday (13 June). The installation is Levitt Bernstein‘s contribution to the London Festival of Architecture. This […]