Have you ever written an email to someone you’ve never met before, asking them for something? It’s tough; cold emails can feel pretty d...

Christmas is meant to be an event unlike any other, a period when work is put to one side and we are asked to slow down and consider the important ...

“I love deadlines,” says author Douglas Adams. “I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”  Writers, this is a deadline you are not goin...

Every week, we kick off our Monday meeting by asking “What does our community need?” And every week, there are many answers, but none of them has b...

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...

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...

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 ...

I had a demoralising experience with an editor the other day. I can’t say which publication they worked for (one of the downsides of freelanc...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 “...

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 ...

If you’ve heard of Universal Basic Income, chances are you’ll have heard somebody dismiss it as ‘free money for everyone’, a misguided policy that ...

There is bad news on the way for some of the UK’s army of self-employed workers, with the imminent changes to the rules governing tax and national ...

I was at an event at the BBC recently where aims to be inclusive were presented neatly in a PowerPoint presentation before the talk began. The spea...