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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Solidarity Pot

Farming, forestry and working on the land can come with lots of unexpected challenges. From cashflow issues to weather related problems, staff sickness to the impact of Covid-19, there are a number of things that can cause financial pressure. We want to support our members during these times to make sure that our local food and agroecological land use systems can keep growing.

We have used income from membership fees, merchandise and events to create a Solidarity Pot to help support members facing challenging times, and thanks to generous donations the pot has been added to by members and LWA supporters.

The purpose of our Solidarity Pot is to help members bridge an urgent gap or to respond quickly to changing circumstances with a loan of up to £1000.

Donations

We are accepting donations to the Solidarity Pot to allow us to support more landworkers through current and future challenging times. To donate, please fill in the box on the left. Any donations will be used to support our members through the Solidarity Pot.

If you would like to more widely support the work of the LWA, you can join the LWA as a supporter member – visit our supporter page to find out more.

Requests for support

We are only able to offer a modest amount as a loan, and we know that the amount we can offer will not meet the full needs of some of our members. If you require a larger sum of money please do get in touch and we can see how we can support as well as signpost to other sources of aid and assistance when possible – contact lauren.simpson@landworkersalliance.org.uk if you have any queries. We will also consider granting money (instead of a loan) in health related circumstances when you are unable to work.

There is 0% interest on the loan and we will agree with you the best payback time depending on your needs – but this can be anything from 6 months – 5 years.

We are trying to make this a quick process, and will review applications on a weekly basis. If your application is agreed, you can expect payment within 5 working days of receipt of Agreement Form.

We are operating this scheme on trust and in the spirit of solidarity. We do not expect any reporting, but welcome feedback on how you have used the money and how it has helped. This will help us build the case for running our Solidarity Pot over a longer-term period, and sharing learning and inspiration amongst our members.

Key points
– We can only take requests for support from landworker members of the Landworkers’ Alliance.
– You can request up to £1000 loan with 0% interest. We will consider larger amounts on a case by case basis.
– In certain health related circumstances we will also consider a £1000 grant.
– Repayment terms are agreed on a case by case basis.
– We will review requests on a weekly basis and respond by the following week with a decision or clarification questions. If there are questions/clarifications there may be a short delay on this timescale.
– Payments will be made within 5 working days of agreement

Read these case studies from two of the previous recipients of the Solidarity Pot to learn about why they applied and how it helped them.

To request support from the Solidarity Pot, please fill in our form here. If you have any questions about the Solidarity Pot, see the FAQ below or please email lauren.simpson@landworkersalliance.org.uk

What if I want to become a regular supporter of the LWA

If you would like to support the work of the LWA you can join the LWA as a supporter – visit our supporter page to find out more.

Do I need to be a member to apply?

The Solidarity Pot is only open to landworker members of the LWA – you can find out more about membership here.

Who will decide who receives support?

A panel made up of LWA staff and coordinating group members will review each application and make a decision as to whether we can support the applicant.

Why are you offering a loan and not a grant?

Our solidarity pot is something we want to last. By offering this money as a loan, we hope that we can recoup money and be able to offer it to other members experiencing emergencies in the future. If we offered this as a grant the money would run out very quickly. To make it affordable to members we are running it on a 0% interest rate