We’re excited to be recruiting for two new exciting roles for Landmatch England starting in October 2025. We are looking two Regional Coordinators – one in the South-West and one in the North-West of England to support in the development of this new project.
The Landmatch England working group which has representation from Landworkers’ Alliance, CSA Network, Shared Assets, The Institute of Agriculture and Horticulture and Tamar Grow Local CIC have been meeting regularly since August 2023 to research and develop a land matching scheme for England.
England does not currently have a centralised land matching service to support land-holders in leasing or releasing land, or to advertise opportunities. For landseekers, it can be difficult to find out about opportunities, or to find signposting for training or business skills which can help prepare them to take on land when the right opportunity arises.
We have learnt from our research and pilot landmatch service in the South West that relationship building, trust and local knowledge are also absolutely essential in this process and so our approach differs to previous land match services in that it takes a regional hub approach to benefit from local knowledge and support. To aid with knowledge pooling, efficiency and best practice, regional hubs will be supported by a national platform and resource bank. The service will also have specific work streams around land justice issues. Furthermore, regional workers will be able to offer wider support, training and advice which will help enable people to access land.
Our partnership is uniquely placed to deliver this project as working group members have land access, new entrant support and land justice work embedded within their organisations and we have wider input from 29 other organisations working to transform food and land-use systems.
Tamar Grow Local CIC on behalf of the working group has now received funding from Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to roll out a landmatch service further by launching a regional service in the North West of England with the support of Lancaster based LESS whilst also continuing work started in the South West alongside Bristol Food Producers.
Our aim is to demonstrate the need for this service and attract further funding to continue this role as well as roll out to other regions whilst also raising contributing funds from income generation. We will also register Landmatch England as a CIC so that the project can become its own entity in 2026.
North West of England Coordinator Role – Job Description & Person Specification
South West of England Regional Coordinator Role – Job Description & Person Specification
Both roles have an application deadline of Thursday 31st July 2025 at midday, with interviews taking place for the South-West position on Thursday 7th August and interviews for the North-West position taking place on Wednesday 27th August.