We all know Linden Grove now as a 24-bed, CQC-regulated community detox hostel – with a beautiful airy dining-room, library, gym, counselling rooms and offices. But it was not always so. In fact, it was a big old house and a separate, disused church hall. In 2006-7, with the help of CRASH, the building […]
A few months ago, Kairos bought a second house in Limesdale Gardens, Brent, creating (together with one rented property) three Kairos houses in a row. This is a unique opportunity to develop our community in north London. CRASH, the building industry charity, is once again supporting and facilitating the development of Kairos move-on housing. And […]
RAPt (the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust) has been working with Kairos for the past two years to support former offenders in their sobriety and integration back into the community. Here, Hattie Moyes, RAPt’s research and development manager, reviews this successful and ongoing partnership. RAPt is the leading provider of intensive, abstinence-based drug and alcohol […]
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.
Hats off to Regional Sales Manager Mike Cobb and his team of business, regional development and specification account managers from Dulux Trade […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]