News
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! […]
Meet the Kairos trustees
The Annual General Meeting takes place next Tuesday (25 Nov, 6.30pm) and we look forward to welcoming our trustees to Linden Grove once again and to hearing their reports. However, have you ever wondered what they do the rest of the year? Here, two trustees explain their work and reflect on what it means to […]
The next step: volunteering
“Good morning, Kairos Linden Grove. Angie speaking…” From behind the front desk at the community detox hostel in Linden Grove, Angela Kirby reflects on her first four months as a Kairos volunteer. “Okay, so I have been asked to write a bit about volunteering but what do I actually do as a volunteer? Sometimes I’m […]
A Kairos week in Lourdes
Twenty Kairos men and women travelled to Lourdes last month to help in the hospital there with disabled and sick people who were on pilgrimage from Dublin. This is the fifth year that director Mossie Lyons and a group from Kairos have joined the annual Oblate Anglo-Irish Pilgrimage. “What stands out about the week,” says […]
Kairos: the perfect place to study recovery
Joanna (“Asia”) Mania recently gained her MSc in Addiction Psychology and Counselling (with Merit) from London South Bank University. Here, she writes about her student placement at Kairos that was an important part of her training. “Before I started my student placement at Kairos, I worked and volunteered at many different places in England and […]