RUSS Annual General Meeting (AGM)  Join us at PLACE/Ladywell on Sunday 23rd June for our Annual General Meeting and a chance to see a new exhibition on Lewisham’s community-led housing projects that’s part of London Festival of Architecture 2019. Tickets

Freelance role: Marketing & social media coordinator for RUSS School of Community-led Housing & RUSS membership events This new freelance role is an opportunity for someone to develop their communications, social media and marketing skills, and be part of a

  The fourth event in RUSS’s 2019 Community Housing Meeting series focused on the climate emergency, which has been declared by both scientists around the world, and locally by Lewisham Council in recent months. Rather fittingly, the meeting took place

The second event in RUSS’s 2019 Community Housing Meeting series centred around examples of innovative self-build projects from overseas. Ted Stevens (Founding Chair, National Custom and Self-Build Association) presented the findings of his two-year research project examining self-build community housing

March 9th: How to set up a community-led housing project (RUSS School Module 1) Community-led housing is a way for local communities to address their housing needs by producing their own decent and affordable homes. It is increasingly seen as

“If there were more organisations like RUSS we could address a lot of society’s problems; as we are finding solutions. A place where ideas and resources that can be shared.” – quote from discussion participant   As part of RUSS’s

On 16th January we relaunched the RUSS Community Housing Meetings at the Cafe of Good Hope with an evening looking at the inspiration behind the project. There was a great, and diverse turn out of around 40 people – some

LONDON’S LEADING SELF-BUILD GROUP UNVEILS PROGRAMME OF EVENING TALKS Release date, 4 January 2019 – RUSS, the Community Land Trust behind an innovative 33 home affordable self-build project in Church Grove, Lewisham, has released details of the first four open