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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Women and Diverse Genders

Women and Diverse Genders in Forestry and Landwork

To contact the Women and Diverse Genders in Forestry and Landwork group email:

Keziah and Sasha met at the Woody Branch gathering in May 2022. After having discussions about their personal experiences with gender identity in Forestry, they felt that there might be value in creating a space for others to share their experiences. So they decided to hold a sharing circle for women and diverse genders in the Woodland Area at the Land Skills Fair. This was attended by over 30 people; women, diverse genders and men, and there was a strong desire to stay connected. And so the group was formed.
The group promotes a lens which questions the power structures that exist in society through centering the experiences of women and gender diverse people. While we don’t want to exclude anyone on the basis of gender from joining this group, on occasion, we do hold events and meetings which are exclusively for women and gender diverse people.
While this group was established by people from within the Forestry sector, it does not wish to exclude others who feel that the issues we are addressing are relevant to their sectors of land work. However, our membership has acknowledged the importance of being rooted in Forestry, as the Forestry industry can be particularly difficult to penetrate if one does not possess typically masculine qualities, or if one does not feel comfortable to present in a particularly masculine way.
The group currently has three primary objectives:
  1. To act as a safe and supportive space for women and gender diverse people within Forestry and land work to build solidarity and community.
  2. To work towards creating a more positive work culture, particularly within Forestry, by disseminating information and supporting each other to speak up about discrimination they may experience at work.
  3. To organise events which facilitate the sharing of skills and knowledge in a way which places women and gender diverse people at the centre of sharing. We believe this is an important way to shift the power dynamic in which men hold much of the knowledge in Forestry and in the use of heavy machinery in other land work.

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