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@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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Press Office

For journalist enquiries, please contact our Press Office.

Phone

07740 932466

(working hours and out of office hours)

Email is preferred, followed by a call or text if the query is urgent. The press office is staffed part time.

If you are not a journalist, but have a query please see our contact page for more information.

LWA SPOKESPEOPLE

Jyoti Fernandes, Policy and Campaigns Coordinator

Jyoti is an agroecological smallholder farmer with a micro-diary based in Dorset. The farm is part of a local smallholders’ cooperative that shares processing facilities and markets the products of the members’ smallholdings collectively. She coordinates the Policy, Lobbying and Campaigning work of the LWA and is a co-founder. She is also a spokesperson for the global small-scale farmers coalition La Via Campesina, which represents over 200m people in more than 180 countries.

Can speak on:

  • LWA’s key messages, including environmental land management schemes (ELMS) and the UK’s agricultural transition
  • UK and global farming policy, including climate change adaptation and mitigation
  • Agroecological farming and agroforesty
  • Local food systems and short-supply chains
  • Importance of including diverse, grassroots voices in negotiations


Rebecca Laughton, Horticulture Campaigns Coordinator

Rebecca has many years of experience in organic market gardening, farming and research relating to small scale agriculture and low impact planning, and is author of “Surviving and Thriving on the Land” (Green Books 2008) .  She currently works part time at a glasshouse in Somerset, growing salad crops, while focussing on advocacy and research in the LWA Horticulture Campaign. She also facilitates the LWA horticulture ELMS Test and Trial scheme called Growing the Goods. She was one of the advisors on Henry Dimbleby’s panel for the National Food Strategy.

Can speak on:

  • Developing environmental horticulture systems and policy
  • UK domestic fruit and vegetable production and supply chains
  • National Food Strategy
  • Agricultural transition


Oli Rodker, Coordinating Group member

Oli Rodker is a woodworker and barn builder. He co-founded the LWA and authored its recent report on Agroforestry. He is also a Director of the Ecological Land Co-operative. He’s worked on environmental campaigns and land-based businesses for the last 30 years.

Can speak on:

  • Climate, carbon offsetting, net zero emissions
  • Land Use: land-sharing rather than sparing
  • Tree solutions, Agroforestry, sustainable forestry
  • Rewilding

Amber Wheeler, Cydlynydd Aelodaeth Cymru/Wales Membership Coordinator

Amber Wheeler is a Welsh speaking research activist passionate about changing the food and farming system for the better. Her particular interest is encouraging greater production and consumption of fruit and veg in Wales and the UK. She lives on a smallholding in Pembrokeshire with her family.

Can speak on:

  • Food Sovereignty: the vision for a more diverse mixed food and farming landscape
  • Gweithwyr y Tir – Landworkers Alliance work in Wales
  • Culture and importance of Welsh family farms
  • How to facilitate more horticultural production and consumption of fruit and veg
  • The role small-scale farmers play in horticulture, and the scale of the challenge

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