Celebrating the reopening of No.66 & our Recovery Hub
Last Thursday’s celebrations for the reopening of 66 Nunhead Lane started at Linden Grove hostel, where we welcomed the CEOs of Crash Charity and Homeless Link, their colleagues and patrons […]
Garden Day Programme
Good news in Mental Health Awareness Week
Complex needs, Garden Day Programme, Supported housing
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week (10-16 May) and what better way to mark it at Kairos than with the handing back of this beautiful building that soon will become home to six very vulnerable people, writes director Mossie Lyons […]
Farewell, Lorraine and Simon… Welcome, Ian and Will
Garden Day Programme, Linden Grove, Staff
After nearly eight years and six of working with Kairos respectively, sadly, we say good-bye to Lorraine Beckford and Simon Eve […]
Regrouping online: the GDP on Zoom
Covid-19 updates, Garden Day Programme
How the Garden Day Programme is working on Zoom to deliver online recovery group therapy to clients until face-to-face work is possible again […]
New horizons in treatment: Croatia 2019
Garden Day Programme, Training
Tim Penrice, manager of the Kairos Garden Day Programme, reports from Rijeka As part of my ongoing thinking and training in addiction treatment and group psychotherapy, I travelled to the International Group Analytic Society summer school programme, held this year in Croatia. Eighty un-like minded group therapists from across the Balkans, Eastern and Western Europe, […]
Summer School in Ljubljana
Garden Day Programme, Training
Continuing professional development is important throughout Kairos, and this summer it took Tim Penrice from Nunhead to Slovenia. As part of the Garden Day Programme’s commitment to training, I decided to combine a few days annual leave with the five-day International Summer School for group analysts and psychotherapists. This year it was held in Ljubljana, […]
Recovery on the Garden’s BBQ menu
Activities, Garden Day Programme
Friday, 15 June 2018 was Kairos Garden Day Programme’s BBQ day and again there was a fine turn-out, with a guesstimate of between 70 and 90 coming to share good food, music, company in the sunshine, writes Tim Penrice, GDP manager. This annual event is now established in our calendar as a summer celebration of […]
Kairos buys Number 66 Nunhead Lane
Garden Day Programme, Supported housing
Kairos Community Trust is delighted to announce the purchase of 66 Nunhead Lane, London SE15. The old corner shop and uppers has been home to Kairos residents since 2001 and has housed our Garden Day Programme since 2011. “This is a great addition and will enable the continuing development of joint Kairos services between Nunhead […]
Friends reunited in recovery at our Garden BBQ
Activities, Garden Day Programme
The political fallout from the General Election was a long way from our minds on Friday (9 June), as the charcoal began to glow and the salads and sausages were marshalled for the 60 or so guests who arrived hungry at our Nunhead Lane garden, writes Tim Penrice, Garden Day Programme manager.The annual GDP summer […]
Just for today: the Garden BBQ Programme
Activities, Garden Day Programme
AA’s 81st Founders Day and the Kairos Garden Day Programme Summer BBQ were celebrated by old and new recovery friends, former and current Kairos residents and GDP participants last Friday (10 June) in warm sunshine and a happy atmosphere. Our thanks to the volunteers who helped make it a special day. Sandra, Mark, Gary, Sam […]
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