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As a freelancer, the most common type of job you’ll pitch involves exchanging your time for payment – you charge a certain amount for the hours you...

Admin tasks costing UK freelancers more than £28bn a year, cause drain on British economy Business Matters reported that freelancers spend over eig...

Last month, Corinne Stuart, previously of IPSE, argued that “freelancing [is] a feminist issue”. The number of self-employed women in the UK has gr...

We live in an age where we are constantly fed images of ‘perfection’. Airbrushed skin, edited faces and bodies; it has become the norm for us now. ...

Whether you’re spending your Summer jetting overseas or camping out in Peckham Rye with a moist blanket and a bottle of cava, there’s nothing worse...

Events freelancing can be tough… but so are you. Working in events gets a tough rap. In the movies and TV shows of our tween-age years event ...

Actors union accuses HMRC of ‘unfair’ tax scrutiny Actors, singers, dancers and other creative professionals are being unfairly targeted by the UK ...

“Be Positive”. What does that phrase do for you? Not much? Same here. Never before has there been more conversation on ‘mindset’. On th...

It was 5 pm on a Friday in the plant-crammed, industrial office of my former employer. The company was a shiny startup in its ecstatic infancy, tou...

More often than not, when we’re riding that giddy post-culture thrill, it’s easy to lapse into the imperative and gently encourage our friends and ...

One thing is clear—social media is redefining how designer/makers do business. Never before has a maker had the power to get into a conversation di...

What do a man accused of cheating on his fiancée and two ridiculously attractive people frolicking in the sun have in common? The answer is, tragic...

Tory government ‘is not on the side of small businesses’ In the Times last week, a report by the Centre for Policy Studies, a centre-right think ta...

You’d think that when Professor Adrian Bingham alleged in Tabloid Century: The Popular Press in Britain, 1896 to the present that the modern press ...

Sometimes as a freelancer you face challenges.  The project is turning out harder than expected, you’re having a tough time finding your next clien...

This week, I’d like to open with the sage words of The GlamLifeGuru, Mrs.Tati Westbrook, who used her recent video ‘Why I Did It …’ (which by the w...

When I started writing about food in the early 1990s, being interested enough in food to want to write about it in was considered rather odd. Thing...

Freelancers are particularly isolated, and this can make them more vulnerable to social and economic insecurity. An alarming report published by Co...

There’s been a freelance surge, IPSE statistics reveal IPSE brings welcome statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), revealin...

Floating in the dusty peripheries of mainstream arts and culture, you will find the locus of this week’s cultural preoccupation; Outsider Art(s). C...