Kairos

Who We Help, Why We Help & the Difference It Makes

What We Do

Services comprise of: Linden Grove Abstinence-Support/Stabilisation Hostel, CQC-registered Bethwin Road Residential Rehab, Garden Day Programme Day Rehab, a structured Aftercare programme and a network of thirty supported houses across six London boroughs.  Services are underpinned by bespoke, individualised care and support plans, helping ensure that everyone has the tools and support needed to move towards a stable, fulfilling life.

Kairos also offers volunteering opportunities through our beekeeping programme, Kairos Community Bees, and group and one-to-one therapy for Southwark residents through the borough commissioned Recovery Communities programme.

BEE KAIROS

The bee hives in the gardens of head office and some Move-on houses are part of our policy to promote good environmental practices across the organisation, including recycling at all houses, composters in all gardens, water butts to collect rainwater, and solar paneling in one house.

In 2010, honey produced by Kairos bees was declared the best honey produced in London in a blind tasting for the Evening Standard by beekeeper and BBC correspondent Martha Kearney. She scored it 5/5, saying, it had “a wonderful creamy flavour, almost like Scottish tablet/toffee, with subtle underlying scents of different flowers”.

The Kairos bees and their minders also merit a chapter in Bees in the City: The Urban Beekeeper’s Handbook by Brian McCallum and Alison Benjamin.

MOVE ON SUPPORTED HOUSING

Kairos offers supported abstinence-based accommodation to men and women who have completed detox and rehab. We also have provision for individuals who are 28 days abstinent and are committed to their recovery. Kairos has 30 Move-on houses with 192 beds located in the London Boroughs of Brent, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Southwark and Wandsworth. Residents are supported in their continuing recovery and steps towards independent living in the wider community.

SOUTHWARK RECOVERY COMMUNITIES

Recovery Communities offers 24 weeks of one-to-one counselling (Kairos Counselling) and 30 weeks of group therapy (the Nunhead Psychotherapy Group) to adults in the Southwark borough who are in abstinent addiction recovery and at least 28 days drink- and drug-free, as well as Kairos residents.  

The programme is commissioned by Southwark Council’s Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT).

Volunteer

Volunteering

Alongside our staff, volunteers play an important role in the life and work of Kairos. Most are men and women who have gone through the Kairos rehab process themselves, are actively pursuing recovery through 12-Step fellowships, are one year or more abstinent and want to help Kairos.

Volunteers provide help with many vital jobs, such as night cover, accompanying residents to appointments, gardening, shopping, driving, cleaning, carpentry, office work and catering.

Support work training

After volunteering for a period of time, some people express an interest in training to become support workers. Kairos has supported individuals in their studies for the Diploma in Health and Social Care (level 3), which is monitored by external examiners and supervised by Kairos management.

For more information about volunteering, contact Head Office

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