Member Organisers

This email is only checked on a weekly basis so if you have a more urgent enquiry please contact Clem (Scotland Membership Coordinator) on clem.sandison@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk

The Scotland team organises gatherings, community meals, farm walks and skill shares, currently focusing on the following regions of Scotland – North, East, Central, South West. We are always looking for more Member Organisers, so get in touch with Clem if you’d like to find out more!

The LWA Member Organisers in Scotland are Suhail, Tom, Natalie, Abi, Josie, Kat, Jac and Meredith.

LWA members in Cymru get together for regional gatherings, site visits and pub meets. The Cymru organising team is Lou, Dave, Kate, Charlotte and Lydia.

There are also whatsapp groups for Mid Wales, West Wales, South Wales and North Wales, get in touch with cymru@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk to join.

The newly-organised Northern Ireland branch has hit the ground running, with a public zoom meeting in partnership with Talamh Beo introducing the LWA and sharing ideas about how LWA members can organise across Northern Ireland.

Upcoming are in person events and further collaboration with other organisations working towards land justice, food sovereignty and sustainable landwork.

The Organising Team for Northern Ireland is Barry, Bea and Anthony.

The Organising Team for the North of England is Rhian and Jenny. LWA members in the North get together for regular farm and site visits throughout the year. Get in touch if you want to host a visit at your site!

The North England region covers Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Lancashire Merseyside, Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear and the Tees Valley, East Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.

LWA members in East Anglia get together for site visits and pub meets, and share skills, resources and encouragement through a supportive and active whatsapp group.

The East Anglia organising team is Ryan and Joel.

The East Anglia region covers Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk.

The Midlands Organising Team is Becca, Brittany and Emma. They get together for pub meets, farm tours and every once in a while a bigger gathering.

The Midlands includes Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland, Birmingham, City of Wolverhampton, Dudley, Solihull, Walsall, West Bromwich, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands (county), Warwickshire, and Worcestershire.

The Southwest England region is packed with agroecological landworkers and producers! The organising team try to signpost people to relevant local networks, represent LWA at bigger events and organise regional gatherings and assemblies.

The Organising team for Southwest England is Jimmy, Megan, Hetty and Harley.

The Southwest covers: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, City and County of Bristol, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Isles of Scilly.

Image: Jimmy Thomson

The Southeast region of the LWA organises gatherings and meet ups, spanning social events, member assemblies and peer to peer learning through site visits.

The Organising Team for Southeast England is Ed, Christabel and Ross, supported by a wider steering group.

The Southeast region spans Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, The Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex, Greater London.

Out On The Land (OOTL) is where Land Workers’ Alliance LGBTQIA+ folx come together to build solidarity, to network and connect, and raise the voices of queer and trans landworkers.

The OOTL Organising Team is Beni, Zoe, Hester, Anna, Nancy, Lucy and others!

Photo credit Anna Barrett, banner by Rachael Clerke

FLAME (Food, Land Agriculture: a Movement for Equality) is the youth wing of the LWA. FLAME holds gatherings and skillshares, connects young people passionate about agroecology and landwork,and campaigns on issues of climate and land justice.

The FLAME Organising Team are Buzz, Lawrence, Camille, Emma, Alanna and Lauren.

Image credit Jyoti Fernandes

The Women and Diverse Genders identity group has a particular focus on the experiences of women and gender marginalised people within the Forestry sector, but is also open to people from other sectors.

It seeks to to build solidarity and community through creating a safe and supportive space for women and gender diverse people within Forestry and land work, working towards creating a more positive work culture, and organiseing events which facilitate the sharing of skills and knowledge in a way which places women and gender diverse people at the centre of sharing.

The REAL Organising Team is Dot and Jaden.

REAL – Racial Equity, Abolition and Liberation – is a group for black and people of colour members of the LWA. REAL is working towards equity and equality through developing racially inclusive networks of support and participation within the movements for Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Land Access for farmers, growers, foresters, agriculturalists, food processors, land-based workers and BPOC who seek a closer connection to nature.

This group is involved in developing a learning history of experiences of people of colour in the LWA in order to work towards a racial liberation strategy.

If you’d be interested in getting involved, get in touch with REAL@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk

The Forestry steering group provides a sounding board for Forestry and Woodland work in the LWA, gives energy to organising events and gatherings, and is helping develop the vision for member organising in the Forestry sector.

The Forestry steering group is Mike, Tom K, Emma, Ellinor, Tom C, Keziah, Sasha, Hannah and Pete.