CALL FOR TRUSTEES We’re looking to recruit new trustees and a board secretary to join our board of trustees this summer. Our trustees help drive our vision to build sustainable communities of genuinely affordable housing, and pass on our model
RUSS events – Coronavirus update
Due to the Coronavirus outbreak RUSS has decided to reschedule its current programme of events, including the talk on 24 March, the event on 26 March and the workshop planned for 28 March. The events we have planned for April
HOW CAN WE MAKE LEWISHAM’S HOUSING ABOUT PEOPLE RATHER THAN PROFIT?
RUSS Community Housing Meeting 19 Feb 2020 Free event: register here Everyone has the right to a decent, safe and genuinely affordable home. Community Land Trusts all over the UK are fighting gentrification by enabling communities to deliver own homes,
LEWISHAM MAYOR SIGNS LEASE ON SITE FOR LONDON’S LARGEST SELF-BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT (AND BURIES TIME CAPSULE TO MARK THE EVENT)
Release date Tuesday 4 February Full press release (as PDF) Lewisham Mayor Damien Egan today officially signed the lease on a plot of land in Church Grove Ladywell, which is to be used to accommodate London’s largest community-led affordable self-build
RUSS Christmas Pub Quiz – 11 December
Join us on December 11th for a Community Housing Themed PUB QUIZ celebrating everything we do at RUSS. The pub quiz will be a great opportunity to for RUSS members to catch up with each other and test their knowledge
RUSS School Winter 2020 programme
RUSS School announces a new workshop series RUSS runs a School of Community-led Housing offering individuals, community groups and housing professionals the chance to learn from RUSS’s many years of experience and gain information about how to set up a
Living in Community Housing – meeting/talk on 20 November
RUSS Community Housing Meetings are back! Join us on November 20th for the first in the series of events held at Fox and Firkin pub in Ladywell. What are the realities of living in community housing? Join us at the
Rafters x RUSS gig on 15 November
We’re delighted to announce an independent fundraiser organised in support of RUSS… Rafters x RUSS at the Fox and Firkin Friday 15 November 7pm til late A great gig with a full & exciting line-up – see below Ticket donations
Update from Trustee, Ethan Williams
RUSS Trustee Ethan Williams introduces himself and gives an update on RUSS activities in this two minute video. Ethan is a researcher at The King’s Fund healthcare think-tank. He joined the RUSS board this summer. In his role at The King’s Fund he
Updated: RUSS School visits Bristol – Saturday 19 October 2019
Bristol is one of the best places in the UK to go to see great examples of community led housing, and RUSS School participants are being given the chance to see for themselves. Join us for an exclusive tour of
