RUSS’s co-design process continues apace, with our Residents Group visiting the Church Grove project site Church Grove Diary – June 2016 by Amanda Gettrup, Residents Group Photos by Martin O’Royan, RUSS Volunteer On Saturday 30th April On Saturday 30th April a 60

Russ volunteers set up and ran our interactive stall at this year’s Hilly Fields Fayre, in order to raise awareness of our charity, enable people to be more involved and to sign up new members to our Community Land Trust.

RUSS’ Community Engagement Team needs your help to plan temporary uses for our recently secured Church Grove site in Ladywell, as well as other engagement work. The team has a community-oriented, grassroots and participatory approach to community engagement. We will be engaging with

There will be a RUSS stall at Hilly Fields Fayre, which is a fun community event on Saturday 18th June, midday to 5pm. We need volunteers to help run the stall and promote RUSS and community-led housing. Jobs include giving

RUSS’s Church Grove project was featured in the South London Press on Sunday May 8th 2016! ‘Self-builders are RUSS-ing to start’

The first workshop of RUSS’s ‘co-design’ process took place on Sunday 1st May at Crofton Park Community Library. Our Residents’ Group for the Church Grove project were shown the ropes by RUSS’s architects and advisors, and the first discussions on

The inaugural meeting of the Church Grove residents’ group– those lucky people selected by ballot to self-build RUSS’s first homes– took place on 6th May in Deptford. Future neighbours met for the first time, and our architects and project managers

Friday 29th April 2016 will go down in RUSS folklore as the day we secured the Church Grove site for our first affordable, self-build housing project in partnership with the London Borough of Lewisham. The conditional Development Agreement (DA) paves