You know the stuff you wish they taught you in Uni and the problems facing your industry? Any questions about managing your invoices, taxes, and the difficult admin of your specific industry will all be answered in here
The role of the curator is often viewed from one of two extremes. For the casual exhibition visitor, the idea that someone has curated the artwork ...
We have created a short PDF resource regarding Covid-19 and it’s affect on freelancers for our community to view, downloadable here. It will ...
We’re making our essential package free until September to support workers of all kinds, and to help support the people that need it most wit...
IR35 reforms to be delayed for a year due to coronavirus (City A.M.) Chief treasury secretary Steve Barclay this evening announced that the IR35 ta...
When you’re a hormone-filled teenager, a bad day can feel like the end of the world. Once you’re an adult, things calm down and your life feels mor...
A lot of people are about to become very familiar with remote working for the first time in their professional careers. Working from home isn’t a ...
The cynic in me distrusts the idea of self-help books thinly disguised as ‘personal development’. At the rate I’ve been known to ...
Urgent calls from MPs for five million self-employed workers to be given equal sick pay rights (The Telegraph) Politicians and trade bodies are ca...
Traditional networking is a divisive thing, tending to split people firmly into one of two camps. You’re either a social swan, who glides around ev...
I was recently cleaning out my house in the process of moving out, and found the tracing of a memory that is unbelievably special to us. But it al...
As the contracts we sign become evermore complex and include rights and uses unheard of when I began as an illustration agent 20 years ago, one iss...
Coronavirus UK: unions warn over lack of sick pay for gig economy workers (The Guardian) The government has been accused of failing to grasp the t...
For many creatives – particularly freelancers, contractors and consultants – social media platforms are ripe with gigs and opportunitie...
It’s nice to finally say it out loud. Throughout this entire process, one of the most consistent questions members of our community have asked is “...
So you’ve landed a gig—great. The pay is decent—which can be shocking, but you don’t question it. It’s a peach of a client and might even end up in...
Businesses at risk from IR35 off-payroll tax reforms (Financial Times) More than 600 freelance workers protested in the shivering cold outside Parl...
They say freelance life is one big rollercoaster. Personally, that’s never felt truer than over the past nine months. Let me backtrack a bit: I am ...
Copywriters live or die by their portfolio. Whether sent speculatively out into the ether or in response to a tender, your portfolio will make or b...
Everyone knows securing press coverage has the potential to rocket any business’s income, but how can you guarantee yours won’t get deleted as soon...
Third of freelancers plan to stop contracting in UK due to IR35 (Workplace Insight) Nearly a third of freelancers are planning to stop contracting...
