RUSS School of Community-led Housing, in partnership with the New Economics Foundation presents: How to organise a community housing project The course takes place across three evenings: Tuesday 9 January, Tuesday 16 January, and Tuesday 23 January 2018 Time: 6.30-9pm
Ladywell Self-Build Community Space – get involved in 2018
Following our successful crowd-funding campaign, we at RUSS have started working on delivering the project and we need your help! As a volunteer project we want people to get involved and help us design, plan and build the building. There
Enabling Communities to Build their Own Homes
The votes are now in for our Aviva Community Fund application. Thank you to everyone who gave us your support – he more votes our project gets, the better our chances of securing funding. The top 30 projects in each
Ladywell Self-Build Community Space
RUSS has launched a Spacehive crowdfunding campaign to self-build a community space on our site in Ladywell with local people and volunteers to create a knowledge hub for self-building, community-led housing and sustainable living. This is the first stage of
Workshop – How to Organise a Community Housing Project
This workshop aims to share the lessons RUSS have learned over the past five years with other aspiring community groups, students and housing practitioners, drawing on our experience with the upcoming Church Grove Project in Lewisham, South London. Saturday 15 July 2017,
RUSS presents Segal Self-Build: Past, Present and Future at London Festival of Architecture
Sunday 4 June, 1pm to 5pm No booking needed, just show up 8 Walters Way, SE23 3LH A chance to join a walking tour around one of Walter Segal’s self-build community housing projects in Lewisham, south London. The small estate
RUSS offers Introduction to Community-led Housing
RUSS is running a special introductory workshop on community-led housing at Raven Row art centre, E1, as part of their 56 Artillery Lane exhibition, reimagining the space of the home in society. The event is funded so we are able
Next School of Community-led Housing dates announced
RUSS is running a one-day workshop on How to organise a community housing project on Sunday 23 April. RUSS is a Community Land Trust at the forefront of a community-led housing revolution in the UK. This workshop aims to share the
Please spread the word with RUSS’s new flyers!
RUSS has a new leaflet, and we’d be delighted if our members and supporters used it to spread the word about our good work tackling London’s housing crisis. Please download the RUSS flyer here.
RUSS gets coverage in Lewisham Life and Positive News
This month, RUSS’s Church Grove project has been featured in Lewisham Life and Positive News. As ever, we’re delighted at the interest in our work. Lewisham Life:
