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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Fringe Farming

(2021 - 2023)

Between  2021 and 2023, the Landworkers’ Alliance worked with Sustain, Shared Assets, and peri-urban farmers in Bristol, Sheffield, Glasgow, London and Cardiff, on a project to promote and support peri-urban farming. Since September 2023, Fringe Farming has entered a dormant phase until further funding can be found, however the Landworkers’ Alliance will continue to promote peri-urban horticulture as part of its “Horticulture Across Four Nations” campaign.

Fringe Farming aims to explore the barriers and opportunities for agroecological farming at the edge of urban areas. The project works with local stakeholders to identify land and develop local actions, and agree national policy recommendations to enable agroecological farming. We aim to demonstrate how peri urban farming can contribute to the green economic recovery, and help address the impacts of the COVID pandemic, Brexit, and the climate and ecological emergencies.

Among the achievements of the Fringe Farming to date are:

  • The publication of a policy brief by each of the stakeholder groups, as well as an overall report, “Fringe Farming: Peri-urban agroecology towards resilient food economies and public goods” for use in advocating to policy makers.
  • Stakeholders liaising at a local level with local authorities to remove barriers to peri-urban farming.
  • Organisation of a “Round Table Parliamentary Event” with MPs and Peers to make the case for peri-urban farming and present the briefings.
  • Hosting of two peri-urban study tours, in Manchester for Defra officials and in London for Local Authority officials.
  • Funding the publication of LWA’s “A Market Garden Renaissance” (September 2023) and  “Horticulture across Four Nations (January 2024) reports.

LWA’s main role in Fringe Farming has been the Peri-Urban Practitioners’ Forum (PUPF), to engage and learn from farmers and growers based in or on the outskirts of urban areas. The forums provide a space for farmer-to-farmer learning and aim to help growers find ways to overcome challenges that they are currently facing.  In the first year the online forums focussed on issues such as “Access to Land” and “Access to Finance”, while in the second year topics were chosen by peri-urban practitioners and included, “Access to Urban Markets”, “Opportunity arising from Crisis: Learning from the Cuban Example”, “A Journey to Local Food Success: Listen and learn about Regather Sheffield” and “GIS Mapping for Fringe Farmers”. We hope to re-start the Peri-Urban Practitioners Forum again in the future.

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