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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Out On The Land

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. We do this in order to reduce isolation, challenge cis-het-normativity and to create spaces for queer and trans joy. We are an unabashedly queer and trans positive group, led by queer and trans people, and celebrate all the beautiful ways we can be Out On The Land!

How we organise: We are a small volunteer-led organizing team. We meet online on the 2nd Monday of the month for an hour & in between on Discord. If you are an LGBTQIA+ LWA member and want to organize with us, you are welcome to get involved. Please read our Values (see below), and Safer Spaces Policy – if this is something you agree with, email lgbtqia@landworkersalliance.org.uk – we can’t wait to meet you!

What we do: Interested in hearing about OOTL’s opportunities, events and exciting news? Sign up for OOTL’s Newsletter– everyone is welcome – it’s currently our main way of communicating OOTL events and opportunities. It’s also how we pass along opportunities and events that may be of interest that we haven’t directly organised. We want LGBTQIA+ landy folx to be connected with as many fun and cool opportunities as possible – so if you have something we should be sharing, drop us a line!

OOTL has been involved with creating the project Cultivating Justice, in which we worked with Land In Our Names and Farmerama to produce incredible zines (find these here, and here) and truly amazing podcasts.

OOTL’s Values

This is a living document that represents the values that are important to us:

  • We uplift all the different ways LGBTQIA+ landworkers exist and all the different contributions we bring to the movement.
  • We centre the lives and experiences of LGBTQIA+ and marginalised peoples.
  • We value all the different journeys that LGBTQIA+ folks are on, wherever that may be, and whatever that may look like.
  • We find, bring, create and resource joyfulness and fun
  • We organise from a place of mutual aid, support and sharing of resources.
  • We value the diversity of our membership and work towards supporting an ever increasing diversity of this group.
  • We are an unabashedly trans-positive group and actively work to fight the struggles faced by trans people in the UK today.
  • We intend to create an environment in which we can all bring an awareness of the power and privilege with which we walk through the world.
  • We stand in solidarity with other marginalised groups, recognising that the injustice that LGBTQIA+ folks face is a part of the same struggle and that many in our community sit at the intersection of multiple oppressions.
  • We know that oppression can materialise in organising work and are committed to anti-oppressive practices.
  • We are an LGBTQIA+ led group. We make our decisions collectively and work to prevent hierarchies.
  • We welcome solidarity & allyship as an active mode of being.
  • We aim to hold one another accountable to being better versions of ourselves, recognising that we are all learning all the time.

The LWA strives to support trans people – read about this here!

To learn more about trans landworkers we recommend these two resources, Embracing Rural Diversity and Coming Out! Gender Diversity in the Food System.

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