Aftercare, Bethwin Road, Linden Grove, Staff
Farewell… to Peter Gill, who has been a counsellor and group facilitator with our Aftercare Programme since it started in 2007; he is joining the team at Southwark Irish Pensioners. Farewell… to Yvonne Douglas who for the past three years has run meditation groups and admin at Bethwin Road and leaves to build her freelance […]
Kairos residents, staff, trustees and friends gave the McGill family a warm welcome yesterday when Brendan and his parents, Roísín and Gerry, were our guests at lunch. Brendan has raised nearly £3,000 for Kairos on his round-Ireland Odyssey by bicyle, pedalling 1,777 miles (without a single puncture!). Mossie Lyons thanked Brendan for his ride and […]
After 35 years away, Bob Evans is leaving his flat in Camberwell and his job as front desk, friend to all, and jack-of-all-trades at Linden Grove and going back to the land of his fathers in the valleys at Aberdare above Cardiff. He will be much missed […]
Activities, Arts, Linden Grove
Theatre company Cardboard Citizens is bringing their latest ‘forum’ play – Rising by Femi Keeling – to Linden Grove on Friday 30 November, 10.30am. The play starts with Terrence’s release after a short prison sentence – he’s full of hope, but faced with battles against the system and demons from his past, he’s on the […]
Congratulations to Linden Grove staff members Vincent Mahe and Simon Woods for achieving their Level 5 Diplomas in Management and Leadership for Health and Social Care.
Kairos arrived at 22 Linden Grove, Nunhead, 20 years ago this month. The building was a wreck but staff and volunteers (like our friend pictured here), managed to make it habitable by 26 March, when Fr John Kitchen, Tony Walsh and six residents moved here from Stonhouse Street in Clapham. In the 20 years since […]
The three new counselling and meeting rooms at Linden Grove have been completed and are now in use. This is the first project that has been built by Kairos staff from start to finish. Denis Walsh and Malachy Carter (who has joined Kairos part-time), created the three rooms and corridor from the old exercise room. […]
Kairos was proud to welcome a delegation of addiction treatment professionals from Turkey, who visited Linden Grove on Tuesday, writes Tim Penrice. Led by psychiatrist and advisor to the Turkish Ministry of Health, Professor Kultegin Ogel, the team comprising psychiatrists, doctors, social workers and criminal justice workers were on a fact-finding mission to learn how […]
Kairos opened the Annexe in Nunhead this week. The four-bedroom house will act as an extension to the John Kitchen Centre in Linden Grove. Annexe residents will attend the Garden Day Programme, a 12-week post-detox rehabilitation course, and they will be supported from Linden Grove. Another Kairos Community Trust development.
Linden Grove, Training, Volunteers
What does it take to sit behind the front desk at Linden Grove? To be gate-keeper and receptionist, all the while fielding a constant stream of random enquiries from residents and staff? In Miriam Kilpatrick’s case, it’s a BA in fine art and an ambition to train as an art therapist. She’s been volunteering at […]
