Webinar 1 is on SATURDAY August 15, 2020 and Webinar 2 is on SATURDAY August 22, 2020.

Book your tickets here and we will send you the Zoom connection to join the Webinar the week preceding the event. Any queries to school@theruss.org.

RUSS is a volunteer-led Community Land Trust based in south London, founded in 2009 with the mission of creating sustainable neighbourhoods and genuinely affordable homes.  In June 2018, RUSS was granted planning permission for 33 homes at Church Grove, Ladywell, south east London. It will be London's largest affordable self-build housing project. 

RUSS has set up 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 and develop a community-led housing project.

This webinar workshop is one of two webinars presenting the first module in our education programme, through which we share our experience and learning since setting up the organisation as a Community Land Trust in 2009.  The first module in a programme of 5, this workshop covers the actions required to set up a community-led housing (CLH) project from the very start.

Our workshops are informal and interactive, with practical exercises, and time to meet like-minded people, housing professionals and groups already involved in CLH projects.

Topics for RUSS Webinars: Module 1: Setting up a group, part 1, on Saturday 15 August

- Creating a group

- Legal structures

- RUSS Right Now

Workshop speakers:

Jon Broome, Architect

Moderator: Cypren Edmunds

supported by Anne Kennedy, RUSS School

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Topics for RUSS Webinars: Module 1: Setting up a group, part 2, on Saturday 22 August

- Working with Local Authorities

- Access to Land

- Introduction to Project Finance

- RUSS Right Now

Workshop speakers:

Dinah Roake, RUSS Operations Director

Moderator: Cypren Edmunds

supported by Anne Kennedy, RUSS School

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If you wish to attend Webinar 2 only, please go the the following page:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/russ-webinar-2-of-2-module-1-getting-started-setting-up-a-group-tickets-113252471190

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Future events:

Module 2: Getting Moving...finding a viable site will run in Autumn 2020.

Module 3A: Getting Permission...securing planning permission and Module 3B: Getting Serious...preparing to start on site will run in Summer 2021.

You can read more about our events on www.theruss.org