The Landworkers’ Alliance is a union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers.

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If you have any comments, critiques, considerations, compliments, complaints, about anything the Landworkers Alliance is or isn’t up to, do let us know your thought. We love feedback, it keeps a system healthy. Please fill in this quick form.

Membership / Supporter / Donation Queries

Please contact Lauren.Simpson@landworkersalliance.org.uk

Requests for work, volunteering or internships

We are currently not recruiting for any roles but please read our newsletters for any announcements. We currently do not offer any volunteer or internship placements directly with the LWA, but keep an eye out in the newsletter or on the forum for any members looking for volunteers or workers.

Academic/Research Enquiries

Please look at the Agroecology Research Collaboration to see if it fits your area of research/work.

Membership Support / Advice

Currently the LWA does not have capacity or resources to help individual members or potential members on their specific projects, farms or programmes. We get a lot of requests for individual support and would love to have the time to respond to each request in full. We are fundraising for a new role for somebody to focus on membership support and services as we have identified it is a gap in our offering so please watch this space. Having said that, if your query is critical and urgent please email info@landworkersalliance.org.uk including the word URGENT in the subject header and it will get picked up and we can try our best to help.

Contacting Individual Staff

Please take the time to explore our staff page here to see who the most relevant contact for your enquiry is.

Our addresses format is firstname.lastname@landworkersalliance.org.uk

Please bear in mind we all work part time and have limited capacity to respond to enquiries outside our core areas of work.

You can also find information under the About Us header about branch and regional organising, and identity groups within the LWA membership.

Press/Media Enquiries:

For any queries relating to press please email press@landworkersalliance.org.uk

Merchandise/calendar Enquiries

For any enquiries to do with shop sales including the calendar please email merchandise@landworkersalliance.org.uk

To Include an Item in Our Newsletter:

You can fill in this quick form to submit it to be included in the next bulletin/newsletter. The deadline to submit is the end of Friday each week for the following week’s member bulletin. With the same form you can also submit to the monthly non-member newsletter which goes out in the first week of the month.

All Other Enquiries:

For any other enquiries that are URGENT please email info@landworkersalliance.org.uk with the word ‘urgent’ in the subject header and we will do our best to help.

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Business Support

We work to support our membership in establishing, improving and expanding their farming and land-based enterprises. We also work to assist farmers, growers and land-based workers who are looking to make the transition towards agroecological farming systems and re-orient their sales and marketing towards short supply chain models.

Business Support Guides

Please see the below resources we have put together to provide information and advice around fundraising, business planning and setting up direct sales and short supply chains.

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LWA Fundraising Guide (2020)
A guide for agroecolgical farming and forestry businesses seeking funding.
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Business planning guide (2022)
A guide for ecological farm and forestry businesses.
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Guide to Direct Sales and Short Supply Chains
An introduction to models and management for farmers and growers
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Direct Sales and Short Supply Chains (Case Studies)
Case studies for setting up and running direct sales systems

Business Support Webinars

Please see the below webinar recordings which offer business advice on a range of topics from social media and marketing, to extending the growing season and direct sales.

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Direct & short supply chain marketing for growers – South East
An introduction to direct sales & short supply chain marketing options for new entrants and growers switching from centralised supply chains. Featuring Iain Tolhurst from Tolhurst Organics
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Direct & short supply chain marketing for growers – South West
An introduction to direct sales & short supply chain marketing options for new entrants and growers switching from centralised supply chains. Featuring Kate Collyns from Grown Green
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Direct & short supply chain marketing for growers – East
An introduction to direct sales & short supply chain marketing options for new entrants and growers switching from centralised supply chains. Featuring Helen Holmes from Waterland
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A LANDWORKERS GUIDE TO DIGITAL MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA
What precisely is digital marketing and why do you need to do it? Should you put your time into tweeting or get on the gram? Marketing and social media can be a bit of a minefield, but this webinar will take you through communications basics and help you work out where to put your energy
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SELLING YOUR PRODUCE ONLINE
In these strange COVID-19 times, the importance of having a way to sell your produce online is even more important than before. However, it is a bit of a minefield out there and can greatly depend on whether you consider yourself tech-savvy or a digital luddite.
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Setting up and running cooperative sales and purchasing models
This webinar is to explore setting up and running cooperative sales and purchasing models for farmers and food systems. How can different farms work together to run cooperative sales / purchasing systems? What are the benefits of these systems? How can we make them sustainable? How can we make them successful?
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A conversation about small scale direct sales of meat
Selling direct to customers can have multiple advantages; you miss out the middleman and make more on the carcass, you get to make more of a connection with your consumers and enjoy the benefits of community spirit. Find out more from some of the leading experts around the country.
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Extending the season and growing over winter in Scotland
Hear from Scottish growing experts and share tips on how to grow right through the year. Join the CSA Network in an informal session in partnership with the OGA and LWA to hear about how Scottish growers extend the season and grow through the winter.

Please be aware that we do not currently have capacity or resources to help individual members or potential members with specific projects, or offer any bespoke advice.  We have, however, identified this as a gap in our work to support members, so please watch this space!

In the meantime please take the time to explore our staff page to see if your enquiry fits into a specific staff members’ role and email them directly.

However, if you require critical and urgent support please email info@landworkersalliance.org.uk and include URGENT in the subject header – we will try out best to respond promptly and offer help and advice where appropriate. 

Page heading photo credit: Anna, C&M Organics 

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