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

Feedback for us

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.

TANYSGRIFIO I’N NEWYDDLEN

BETH RYDYM YN EI WNEUD

SOCIAL NETWORKS AND SOLIDARITY

Building social networks and solidarity between members is key to our aims of increasing the number of agroecological land-based businesses in the UK, reducing rural isolation and supporting our members wherever possible.

To achieve these aims we organise events, farm walks, parties, trainings and exchanges around the country and work to put people in contact with others around them. We also work with other organisations to improve rural social networks and support services and work with La Via Campesina and allied organisations in other countries to organise exchange visits and events.

Upcoming Events | Visit Our Forum

TRAINING AND EXCHANGE

We aim to increase the skills and knowledge of our members in respect to agroecological farming and land management as well as in union organising, campaigning and lobbying. To achieve this we organise and encourage both formal and informal training, skill shares and exchanges.

We are working on setting up resources and coordination to help meet the need for Agroecological training, mentoring and knowledge exchange.

Find out more about Training and Education

MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

We aim to improve the public’s’ understanding of the social, environmental and economic benefits created by our members work, and to highlight the challenges they face. In addition we aim to raise the public profile of agroecology and food sovereignty as solutions to social and environmental crisis.

To achieve this we work to increase the visibility of our members work through both formal and informal media, and to develop the reach and content of our own communications channels.

Read our Publications | Read our Latest News

CAMPAIGNING AND LOBBYING

We aim to increase the numbers of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers in the UK and to increase the political and policy level understanding of both the issues our members face and the solutions they represent.

In addition we aim to improve the sovereignty, resilience and sustainability of our food and land-use systems and to increase peoples access to local, healthy and affordable food, fuel and fibre.

To achieve these aims we lobby and campaign for policy that will support the infrastructure and markets central to our members’ livelihoods, as well as opposing policies that would have negative effects.

We work to build relationships with with civil servants, political parties and decision makers at local, national and international levels and are engaged in numerous official and unofficial campaigning and lobbying processes in the UK, and in Europe and Internationally though La Via Campesina.