We are very excited to announce our Members Meetings are being revamped for the new year! We have a new home at Good Hope PLACE/Ladywell and with the incredible year that we have had, we will reflect on our achievements
We’re looking for a Secretary to sit on the board of Trustees
The Rural Urban Synthesis Society (RUSS) is seeking a volunteer Secretary to sit on the board of Trustees and support the organisation through an exciting time of growth and development. RUSS is a Community Land Trust based in south-east London.
National Lottery’s Awards For All Scheme Supports London Community-Led Housing Training Initiative
Release date – 4 December 2018 NATIONAL LOTTERY’S ‘AWARDS FOR ALL’ SCHEME SUPPORTS LONDON COMMUNITY-LED HOUSING TRAINING INITIATIVE RUSS, the Community Land Trust behind an innovative 33 home affordable self-build project in Lewisham, has been awarded a grant of £9,450
Community Hub: Ending the year on a high (and dry) note
Greetings! This is the last blog of the year for the RUSS community hub as we prepare for the Christmas season and take a well-earned break. Our volunteers have been busy over the last few weeks getting the site and
RUSS visit to Older Women’s Co-Housing (OWCH)
Jim Hudson, RUSS member and PhD candidate researching co-housing shares his personal reflections on RUSS’s visit to OWCH (Older Women’s Co-Housing). On 28th October RUSS members visited New Ground in Barnet, the home of the Older Women’s Co-Housing (OWCH for
Manual Labour Fun Day!
It been all action this week. After our Contractor cleared the site for us and installed vehicle access, we’ve been able to start picking up reclaimed materials we’ve been storing at various locations in order to bring them to site.
New RUSS workshop: How do you get a Community-led Housing project ready for planning?
Press Release – 2 October 2018 HOW DO YOU GET A COMMUNITY-LED HOUSING PROJECT READY FOR PLANNING? ONE DAY WORKSHOP EXPLAINS THE PROCESS STEP-BY-STEP RUSS, the Community Land Trust behind an innovative 33 home affordable self-build project in Lewisham, is
It’s all about the groundworks!
It’s been a few weeks since we last blogged about what we have been up to. We bit off more than we could chew with promising weekly updates. We’re hoping to blog every 2-3 weeks from now on depending on
What the F10?
The weeks are flying by, and sometimes it feels like we are getting nowhere. So it’s been really useful to write these blog posts to look back and remind ourselves what we have achieved. Once again, we’ve been quite busy!
Post-its, post-its and more post-its
We have had a very busy week with several meetings and workshops. It feels great to get some momentum behind the project again, we hope we can maintain it now! What we’ve done this week On Monday we met with
