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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Save our Standards

Campaigns & Advocacy

As the UK embarks on agreeing a series of new international trade deals with its economic allies, we see it as our duty and responsibility as representatives of UK food producers to ensure that any new trade agreements do not compromise the livelihoods of our members and the wider UK food and farming system. 

Free trade deals which lack robust regulations threaten to saturate the UK food market with cheaper goods produced to lower standards, thereby undercutting British farmers and severely destabilising farming livelihoods. We believe that a transition to short, localised supply chains must be supported in government policy, and where imports are needed, they must be held to high production, labour and environmental standards.

UK Agriculture and Trade Bills

We have fought hard for the addition of specific clauses in both the Agriculture Bill and the Trade Bill which would prevent the import of agricultural products produced to lower standards. We urged the government to not to allow imports of factory farmed chlorinated chicken, pork produced using farrowing crates, pesticide laden fruit and vegetables and more. Not only do we believe these products to be unethical, but we are also concerned that low quality imports which are produced cheaply by cutting corners in areas such as hygiene or animal welfare, will result in UK farmers going out business or being pressured to compete by lowering their own standards. 

In January 2020 we signed a joint letter with allied food and farming organisations asking the Prime Minister to ensure that the environmental, animal welfare and safety standards of UK food production were not undermined in the development of independent trade policy post-Brexit. You can read that letter here.

In November 2020 we submitted evidence to the Trade and Agriculture Commission on our recommendations for responsible post-Brexit trade policy. You can read out submission here.

UK-Australia Trade Deal

You can read our blog post on the UK-Australia Trade deal by clicking here.

OUR CAMPAIGNS

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