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Congratulations and thank you, Gemma!
Our congratulations and thanks go to Gemma O’Driscoll, who yesterday ran her first-ever marathon, to raise money for the homeless. She completed the 26.2-mile London Marathon course in 4 hours 33 minutes and, at the time of writing, has raised £1,005, to be divided 80/20 between Kairos and St Mungo’s. There’s still time to add […]
A Labour of Love at Linden Grove
Together with CRASH, the building industry charity, Kairos is collaborating with Levitt Bernstein Architects on their project for the London Festival of Architecture 2015. Under the guidance of artist A Labour of Love, Kairos residents are helping to build a large-scale cardboard city which will be installed in the courtyard of the award-winning architects’ Dalston […]
Gemma O’Driscoll’s marathon run for Kairos
We’ll be cheering on Gemma O’Driscoll as she runs the 26.2 miles of the London Marathon on Sunday 26 April. If her name sounds familiar, that’s because she the niece of Kairos yoga teacher Eileen O’Driscoll and one of a long line of distinguished sportsmen and women. Gemma is running to raising money for two […]
Calling Kairos women …
Kairos is holding its annual review of women’s services and wants to hear from Kairos women past and preset, clients and staff. Building on the success of last year’s event, you are again invited to come and exchange views and ideas in a friendly, informal atmosphere over lunch. Date: Friday, 24 April 2015 Time: 12.30 […]
Making more room for recovery with CRASH
The latest stage in the redevelopment of the Kairos move-on house in Eugenia Road, Southwark, was completed last week when residents moved into the two new ground-floor bedrooms. One room was built on the site of the disused garage, the other was part of internal modifications that also included the installation of a new wet-room […]
Kairos students at the New Hanbury Project
On Tuesday, Geoffrey will become newest trainee barista at the Paper & Cup café, run by the New Hanbury Project in Shoreditch. He is one of the many Kairos residents and ‘graduates’ who have continued their personal development in recovery at the centre affectionately known simply as ‘the Hanbury’.The project’s timetable changes from term to […]
Standard-bearer for Veterans Aid
Kairos congratulates Veterans Aid on being one of the partner charities to benefit from the London Evening Standard’s 2014 Christmas campaign. In the centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War, the campaign is taking up the cause of Britain’s homeless veterans and what the paper’s owner, Evgeny Lebedev, describes as “the myriad […]
The 2014 AGM
Kairos Community Trust’s 23rd Annual General Meeting was held at Linden Grove on the evening of 25 November. The dining-room was full to overflowing with past and present residents and staff, volunteers, friends and supporters who had come to hear about how Kairos had fared in 2014 […]
Medjugorje: an unexpected journey
Locksley Walters, Kairos driver and beekeeper, was one of the six men and women from Kairos who went to Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina this year to visit the shrine of Our Lady of Medjugorje. Their trip was a further generous gift from a benefactor who shares his love of Medjugorje with so many of […]
The first round goes to Kairos
The Dulwich Catenians & St James Golf Society raised £3,240 for Kairos Community Trust at their charity golf day last month, when 22 golfers played a round at he Dulwich and Sydenham Hill Golf Club and some 50 people enjoyed the dinner afterwards. The society plans to make it an annual event. Thank you, everyone! […]