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UK opens £10 billion COVID-19 aid programme for self-employed (Reuters)  Millions of British self-employed workers will be able to apply for one-of...

To many, the word “sales” is a dirty word, and that’s because we’ve all had the experience of being sold to… badly. From an aggressive door-t...

You’ve made banana bread, joined House Party (then deleted House Party), watched Tiger King, and then probably ostriched when it has come to promot...

Rishi Sunak preparing to wind down coronavirus furlough scheme from July (The Guardian) Rishi Sunak is preparing to wind down the coronavirus wage-...

Should you ever work for free? Every freelancer will have been asked to work for nothing, whether it’s the early-career work done in exchange for ‘...

The full impact of Covid-19 on the economy is still unknown, but one thing is for certain – it’s not looking good. Even more certain is...

Self-employed could get emergency cash payments before June, (The Telegraph) The self-employed could be handed emergency cash payments sooner than ...

I’d been in my bathroom getting ready to head to my then still-open coworking spot, the radio on in my living room, when the newscaster said what h...

It’s an unprecedented time of uncertainty for everyone, but arguably it’s the self-employed community (4.8 million people in the UK) who face the m...

1.5m more self-employed workers file claims for universal credit, (Business Matters Magazine) More than 1.5 million people have applied for univers...

Ah, to be a freelancer in Germany! In order to help shield the self-employed from the effects of the coronavirus-induced recession, the German stat...

Self-employed workers caught out by the controversial ‘loan charge’ are still being chased by the taxman despite coronavirus crisis, (T...

41%.  It is one of the statistics that the UnderPinned team most commonly find themselves scratching their head over. Campaigns have been set up to...

It was all going so well. An editor at a magazine I’d been chasing for months had replied to say he’d loved my idea for a feature. We’d emailed bac...

Covid – 19 Sunak Urged to Urgently Close Gaps in Support for Self-Employed, (Freelance UK) The chancellor is being inundated with appeals from supp...

Hands up if you didn’t know a destination existed until it came across your Instagram feed? Now hands and toes up if you’ve ever decided on where t...

As one of millions of self-employed people who has been put out of work by this crisis, I have been left my job thinking about what is meant by tha...

Chancellor gives support to millions of self-employed individuals, (GOV.uk) Millions of self-employed individuals will receive direct cash grants t...

Freelance creatives work all day in their pyjamas, right? And we only work when we can be bothered. Of course, it’s much less stressful than an off...

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 ...