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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After great applause from friends and staff, our formal congratulations go to the Kairos actors who took part in The Sound of Yellow at the Young Vic last month. In seven performances over three days, they helped take audiences on an emotionally-charged journey down the River of Love and across the Ocean of the Mind […]
The Kairos cast members of ‘The Sound of Yellow’ have joined final rehearsals at the Young Vic this weekend in preparation for the opening night on Thursday (24 July). This is the first time that the combined cast – which also includes volunteers from St Mungo’s, Thames Reach and Foundation 66 – have rehearsed together. […]
Kairos director Mossie Lyons was a delegate last week at the annual conference of Homeless Link, the umbrella organisation for homelessness charities. Here, he reports on the event held in Hinckley, Leicestershire. The construction industry charity CRASH invited me to join them as a delegate and also to be part of their stand in the […]
The Kairos Women’s Group is a support group for women in recovery who are using Kairos services and who have 90-plus days’ sobriety. It’s an open and honest meeting facilitated by Sarah and Pam (above) and takes place on Fridays, 2.30-4.30pm at Kairos Aftercare (45a Elm Grove, London SE15 5DD). For more information, call 07557 […]
Kairos director Mossie Lyons and support worker Dominic O’Gorman were among the speakers at the Southwark Caritas Roadshow in Woolwich on 21 June. Organised by CSAN – the Caritas Social Action Network – and the Archdiocese of Southwark, the event was part of the response to Pope Francis’s call to be a “church for the […]