RUSS AGM 2020: Trustee elections Update Sunday 21 June, 9.15am At the Annual General Meeting (AGM) each year, RUSS elects new trustees onto the board. In this post, we set out how the process works, the candidates who are standing
RUSS AGM – join us online 27 June
Join us on Saturday, 27 June 2020 from 5pm for our virtual Annual General Meeting This year’s AGM will be held virtually in Zoom. Register here to receive meeting details: RUSS Eventbrite Please see the 2020 AGM Agenda here and
Call for Trustees – could you help drive our vision?
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