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@staging.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@staging.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@staging.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@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk

Merchandise/calendar Enquiries

For any enquiries to do with shop sales including the calendar please email merchandise@staging.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@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk with the word ‘urgent’ in the subject header and we will do our best to help.

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Agroecological Pathways

It is recognised that there is little transparency around agroecological training and career pathways, and that new entrants face many barriers to starting a career in agroecology here in the UK. Entry routes and career progression are far from standardised and although the diversity this offers is valuable, it does make it difficult for (potential) new entrants to understand what training, skills and experience might be required, or can be accessed, or what options and support is available at different stages of a career in agroecology. Entry routes into landwork usually require a level of available resources not afforded to many and so we acknowledge the complex difficulties experienced by all intersectionalities when entering into these spaces here in the UK and the inequalities in access to land working opportunities.

To help alleviate some of these barriers and provide transparency, we have designed three interactive industry pathways to guide you into a career in agroecology via the Horticulture, Arable or Livestock and Dairy industries. Each industry pathway outlines information, tips and links to further resources and support in volunteering, training, qualifications and accreditations, getting paid work, starting your own business and career progression in the agroecological sector. The aim of these pathways is to display the diversity of routes into a wide range of land based careers and represent intersectional landworker identities, particularly in relation to age, gender, class and racial identity, by outlining sources of support.

We understand that no agroecological career pathway is linear, yet we have designed our interactive pathways in a format that follows a line of progression in the hope of offering simplicity, ease of access and encouragement in finding your way into agroecological landwork. We have, however, set up the navigation of this pathway tool to reflect the complexity of each journey and so please feel free to either follow the linear steps in each career pathway or jump between sections to find the most suitable information for your particular needs.

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