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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The Landworkers’ Alliance is a democratic, member-led union. We are constituted as a non-for-profit, co-operative, company limited by guarantee.

We have members across the UK and work wherever we can to support the needs of members at a local level and build our collective power by bringing members together to work on the issues that are important to them.

The LWA is growing fast and so working groups and structures at the local level change quickly. If you are a member who wants to get more involved contact us and we will direct you to local groups, coordinators and working groups.

As a member-led union we encourage active participation of members at whatever level they want to work at. To further this we organise trainings and events at which people can get involved. Visit the events page for more information about upcoming events and opportunities.

For more information about our organising structure have a look at How the LWA works: A Handbook for Members.

Read it here

What kind of union are we?

Watch this film from our 2022 AGM where we discuss this question.

Coordinating Group

The Coordinating group is composed of up to 12 Directors who are elected from the membership by the membership at the Annual General Meeting. They are responsible for coordinating the strategic, financial, governance and political work of the organisation.

The Coordinating group aims to represent a balance of sectors, branches and regions whilst maintaining gender parity, a range of ages and inclusion.

Branches and Regions

The membership of the LWA is organised into branches and regions, each with an organising team of members who develop local networks through socials, communications and peer to peer learning. Find out more about our England, Scotland a Wales branches.

Sectoral groups

We are working on supporting sector based organising. At the moment the Woodland and Forestry sectoral group are actively working to take the lead on organising forestry and woodland related events and activities.

Identity Groups

The LWA supports identity-based organising for members who are marginalised in landwork and wider society.

We currently have an LGBTQIA+ working group (called Out On The Land) and a BPOC (Black and People of Colour) working group (called REAL), as well as a youth arm called FLAME.

FLAME – the youth arm of the LWA

FLAME is made up of young people who believe that the way we produce food and eat it can be a solution to creating a better world. They believe that everybody should have access to nutritious, safe and affordable food. Some of them have grown up on family farms and some are now pursuing careers in farming, forestry, food preparation or land based crafts. Some are ecologists, health care workers, artists, community organisers. All of them are activists in our own way believing that food and land are are important.

Learn more about FLAME here.

Out On The Land

Out On The Land (OOTL) is where Land Workers’ Alliance LGBTQIA+ members organise around their queer and trans identities. We come together build solidarity and raise the voices of queer and trans landworkers.

Learn more about OOTL here.

REAL

If you are a member and would like to find out more about REAL (our BPoC group), please email lauren.simpson@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk

Organisers’ Assembly

At the Organisers’ Assembly, we bring together member delegates from regions & branches, sectors and working groups to learn from each other’s work, discuss how to strengthen our internal organising, and share perspectives on the LWA’s direction of travel