Santa’s stopping in Nunhead Grove
One of the seasonal benefits of attending the Kairos Garden Day Programme is the wonderful display of lights put on by our neighbours in Nunhead Grove. Thank you, everyone!
Activities
What’s Polish for recovery?
Getting clean and sober in your own language is hard work, but imagine how hard it is to share in group or at a meeting in a foreign language. However, many visitors and immigrants find the determination and courage to do so. Like Kairos graduate, Krzysztof from Poland, who has gone a step further and […]
Thank you, Dulwich golfers!
Thank you everyone who took part in the Dulwich Catenians and Holy Ghost Fathers golf day and dinner earlier this month at Sundridge Park Golf Club, Bromley that raised £4,035 in aid of Kairos Community Trust.
Postcard from Lourdes 2015
Twenty-seven people from Kairos (workers, residents and former residents) travelled to Lourdes last week. We went to help with the sick pilgrims of the Oblate pilgrimage from Dublin, writes Mossie Lyons. Over and above the five days of hard work, it was a most unifying, uplifting and enriching experience for the group. The sort […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]