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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Pastured Poultry Feed Project (Scotland)

(2022 - 2023)

What’s the issue?

Sourcing organic UK-grown feed is currently a huge challenge facing small-scale poultry producers in Scotland and the rest of the UK. Soaring feed prices throughout 2022 as a result in the rise of energy costs, combined with international supply chain volatility and corporate control of the animal feed sector has meant that many small-scale poultry producers face uncertainty about the viability of their businesses.

What are we doing?

The LWA’s Pastured Poultry Feed Project in Scotland bringing together small-scale poultry farmers who are hoping to tackle the huge challenge of sourcing organic UK-grown poultry feed. The aims of the group include sharing knowledge of pastured poultry practices, researching locally grown feed sources and exploring collective purchasing models.

This project is part of a wider programme in partnership with other organisations in Scotland to embed and support the transition to agroecology through a practical knowledge exchange programme funded by the Scottish Government’s Knowledge Transfer Innovation Fund (KTIF).

Contact

Clem Sandison, clem.sandison@landworkersalliance.org.uk

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