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.

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Donate to support our work

Donate to support our union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers to build a future where everybody can access local, healthy, affordable food, fuel and fibre from producers they can trust.

We need our farmers three times a day.
Support a future for smaller and family farms!

You don’t have to be a farmer or land-worker to recognise that small to medium scale agroecological farms and land management are crucial to the sustainability of our environment and food system.

They provide opportunities to connect with our food and each other; they care about providing affordable, good quality food to their communities; they strive to improve land and landscapes, so that we may improve our world for future generations; they are core part of the solutions to the issues of rural unemployment, food poverty, climate chaos and biodiversity collapse.

By supporting our work with a donation you’ll be adding your voice to the movement and bringing more power to our messages. You’ll help us to run more trainings and events and we’ll be able to continue lobbying and campaigning for the issues that matter. Your money is going directly towards building a future where everybody can access local, healthy, affordable food, fuel and fibre from producers they can trust.

If you wish to support our work in a long term capacity, you can join the LWA as a Supporter.

“The Landworkers' Alliance is a key actor in the movement advocating a socially just and ecologically sustainable food system, both within the UK and beyond. As part of Via Campesina and the international food sovereignty movement, the LWA has played a very significant role in putting food sovereignty on the agenda in the UK, in stimulating the emergence of the UK food sovereignty movement, and in thinking through what the implementation of food sovereignty principles might look like in a UK context.”
LWA Supporter, London
“I think a lot about what kind of world my grandchildren will live in. What access to land they will have, what food they will eat and whether they will be able to experience a certain level of joy and wellbeing in their lives...Small scale farming and diverse economic systems must be included as fundamental components of any solution to the emerging food crisis. The Landworkers Alliance are key in this, offering very real, alternative agroecological solutions to the serious problem of what we are going to eat over the coming century.”
LWA Supporter, Cumbria

Will I be tied into a contract?

No making a one-off donation does not commit you to any ongoing relationship. If you would like to join the LWA as a supporter visit our supporter page to find out more.

How big is the LWA?

The LWA is growing fast and currently represents over 1000 farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers around the UK.

What is La Via Campesina?

La Via Campesina is the global umbrella organisation of peasant, small-scale farmer and agricultural workers unions. It currently represents over 200 million producers through around 200 member organisations.

What is Agroecology?

Agroecology is a framework for describing the knowledge and practices of food producers working in resilient and sustainable food and land-use systems. You can find out more on the What We Stand For page of our website.

When was the LWA established?

The LWA was founded in 2012 by a small group of farmers, growers and land-based workers’ who were frustrated by the lack of representation of small-medium scale agroecological producers in the UK.

What is Food Sovereignty?

Food Sovereignty is a framework for localised, equitable and ecological food systems that puts those who produce and consume food at the cente of decision making. You can find out more on the What We Stand For page of our website.