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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UK General Election 2024

The UK is due to hold a General Election on July 4th 2024. We want to push food and farming higher up the political agenda, and make sure that politicians, candidates and party leaders are taking are future of our food system seriously in their election campaigns.

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In October 2023 we published our Manifesto for Food, Farming and Forestry which outlines policy recommendations that we’d like to see the next government implement to support agroecology, food sovereignty and the right to food in England and the rest of the UK. We are working hard to share our manifesto with key politicians and supporting our members to engage with their local parliamentary candidates to raise awareness about the issues facing small farms and growers, as well as the opportunities and benefits that agroecology presents to numerous environmental, social and economic issues that we are currently facing in the UK.

Our top five demands for a new government:

  1. Double the Agriculture Budget for all four UK nations
  2. Introduce a Capital Grants Scheme for horticulture start-ups
  3. Develop the New Entrants Support Scheme to explicitly address access to land
  4. Introduce a ‘Green Economy Apprenticeship Scheme’ which includes agroecological farming and food production
  5. Commit to procuring 50% of public food from local organic producers

You can read about these demands in detail yma.

It’s important to note that food and farming and devolved issues in UK law and policy. This means that while the UK Government is responsible for food and farming in England, the governments of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are responsible for food and farming policy in their respective nations. You can read more about this in our Guide to the 2024 General Election.

What can you do?

Write to party leaders using our online letter-writing action

Use our letter-writing action to urge party leaders and key politicians to commit to key food and farming policies in their General Election campaign. The letter highlights the following the three demands:

  1. A bigger agriculture budget which is able to provide the financial support and reassurance urgently needed to help farmers transition to more sustainable farming practices

  2. A Horticulture Strategy for England to increase domestic fruit and vegetable production for public health, climate resilience and UK food security

  3. An ambitious New Entrant Support Scheme to inspire, train and support a new generation of farmers and landworkers onto the land

Organise or attend a local hustings using our General Election Hustings Toolkit

Hustings are a really great way for us to meet our local candidates, learn more about their positions and policies, and get them to make important commitments on food, farming and land-use ahead of election day.

If you’re thinking of attending a local hustings (please do!) or if you want to organise one yourself (there’s still time!) then this toolkit is for you, it includes:

🗓️ Find your local hustings

🌾 How to organise your own food, farming and land-use hustings

🤚 Example questions to ask candidates

Check our Campaign Toolkit for more ways to advocate for agroecology and food sovereignty in the run up to the General Election.

Click ‘See board’ to access.

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