Congratulations, Vincent and Simon
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.
Linden Grove
20 years at number 22 Linden Grove
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 […]
More rooms for recovery at Linden Grove
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.“These […]
Turkish addiction specialists visit Linden Grove
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 […]
Linden Grove Annexe opens
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.
Miriam Kilpatrick, our front-desk artist
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 Linden […]
CRASH – ‘Changing Rooms’ at Linden Grove
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 […]
Welcome to the new Linden Grove team
Kairos Community Trust is delighted to announce the appointment of Lorraine Beckford as manager of our Linden Grove community detox hostel; she brings many years experience both as a manager and psychotherapist. Senior support worker Vincent Mahe becomes assistant manager. Samantha Chapman will be joining the Linden Grove team part-time as a counsellor and Adrian […]
The AGM 2015: Reporting on recovery
The large dining-room at Linden Grove – once a church hall – and the balcony overlooking it were packed to overflowing on Tuesday night for this, the 24th Annual General Meeting of Kairos Community Trust. Residents past and present, staff, trustees, volunteers, our extended families and friends were welcomed by Hanora Morrin, chair of Trustees.The […]
Farewell, Frank Smith
Friends, colleagues, residents and former clients gathered at Linden Grove on Friday lunchtime to bid farewell to Frank Smith, manager of Linden Grove, who is leaving after 18 years with Kairos. “Frank has been one of Kairos’s longest serving heroes,” writes Kairos Trustee Sarah Potter. “From the earliest shoe-string chaotic days, he has been a […]