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FEU TRAINING is currently developing a new training programme that will continue to help freelance members acquire the key business skills that help to gain and maintain work continuity. Building on the success of recent years, the new project phase (Getting Down to Business through Recession and Beyond, 2012-14) is supported by funds from unionlearn [...]

FEU Training has been successful in its bid to gain more funding to help support the career progression of freelances. Previously, FEU Training has been running skills development opportunities to help freelances gain the necessary business skills necessary to support their work. The new project phase will continue to focus on this area with aims [...]

The March 13 workshop focused around online networking is fully booked. In response to the high demand, an additional workshop has been schedule for March 22. If FEU Training is successful in securing further funding, more workshops and courses will be developed for the coming year. “With over 600 applications for 40 places in this [...]

Whether face-to-face or through digital media, initiating and retaining professional contacts is an important part of gaining new work and building work continuity. With this in mind, this March, FEU Training is to deliver a new workshop ‘Linking In and Meeting Up’ as part of its successful ‘Make Impact’ programme of workshops, which has been [...]

Over 450 freelances applied to attend FEU Training’s ‘Money Matters’ training workshop held in Birmingham and London respectively towards the end of 2011. The workshop focused on the spectrum of financial issues important for freelances get to grips with to ensure on-going success and accountability including self-employment issues, tax calculations and financial projections: “Everything covered [...]

Today it’s National Freelance Day. Launched by PCG in 2009, the day focuses on the range of different aspects entailed in working freelance aiming to add credibility to a crucial method of working in the UK. Recent figures released by Kingston University and founders PCG show that the number of freelances in the UK now [...]

Over 40 freelances from the NUJ, Equity, Musicians’ Union and Writers’ guild attended the ‘Make Impact 2’ workshop in London recently. Focusing on improving communication to a make better and more long-lasting impression on clients and contacts, the workshop included both tutorials and practical exercises to enhance learning: “Not only was it informative and well [...]

The next in the series of the free FEU Training workshops is ‘Make Impact 2’, which covers those all important communication skills that can make the difference between success and failure. This one-day workshop aims to help creative freelances improve the way they communicate with current and prospective clients through teaching and role play. TO [...]

AS PART of a programme of workshops held by FEU Training aiming to help creative freelances improve the business skills essential to supporting career development, ‘Manage Your Business’ was held in London in July. In this instance, key themes included time management and social media with participants taking part in lively discussion and group exercises [...]