Digital Learning Centre
for Creative Freelances
FEU Training provides training, information, advice, guidance and skills development opportunities to support your freelance career in the creative industries.
Upcoming free workshops and webinars
Grow your business via email marketing – 25 Aug 2020, 10.30-4.15pm
In this workshop you’ll learn how to get your name out to your audiences and keep that relationship going through using MailChimp for emails, newsletters and mailing lists.
Diversify your portfolio – 12 Aug 2020, 10.30am – 4.15pm
Most of our working lives have been turned upside down in recent months, so this workshop aims to help you to take stock of where you are now and explore the range of skills, talents and experience that you have accumulated to find inspiration and direction on how to move forward.
Finance for Freelances – 4 Aug 2020, 10.30am – 4.15pm
It’s a challenging time for creative freelances and this means that it’s more important than ever to make sure that your finances are in shape. Essential for every freelance, this workshop will help you improve your financial management from how to work out your tax to cash flow forecasting.
Unleash the potential of your technology – 28 Jul 2020, 10.30am – 4.15pm
This online workshop aims to help you maximise the potential of your technology including computers, phones and tablets so that you improve the way that you work and make your life easier.
WEBINAR – Get motivated – 24 Jul 2020 – 11am-12.30pm
It is little wonder that these troubled times have left many of us feeling flat with less enthusiasm towards our creative work than usual. This webinar aims to help you re-gain your motivation and get back your mojo.
Get creative with graphics – 21 July 2020, 10.30am – 4.15pm
This workshop will introduce you to the design platform Canva with the aim of helping you produce visual content that can help you showcase and support your creative work through producing graphics for a range of purposes including social media, business cards, posters and flyers.
Case Studies - how we can help
Everything I’ve attended has contributed to helping me streamline the admin side of the business by managing money, my confidence, resilience and time management – all of which lets me focus more on the music.
Matt Helm, Musician
Apart from the workshop content which was really useful, I enjoyed chatting to everyone there. It was such a lovely group and everyone was so friendly and supportive…the networking opportunities are fantastic.
Emma Sheppard, Journalist
It is so easy to feel isolated when you are a creative freelance but the FEU Training workshops show you that you’re not alone. You meet so many great people from the arts in general and the courses really pick you up.
Julia Titus, Actor and Singer
FEU Training courses are real and attended by working professionals. This results in a tangible, practical energy coming from a very focused group of people. It’s energising and invigorating to be part of.
William Gallagher, Writer
Test yourself in English, Maths and ICT with a set of short quizzes devised by unionlearn (run by the TUC)
to help you to assess your skills level in these essential areas and consider where you might want to improve.
What can we do for you?
The Getting Down to Business programme helps freelances throughout England brush up on key business skills.
Whether it's through free training courses or providing freelance-focused information, there's plenty of support for our members both on and offline.
Digital Learning Centre
At FEU Training we’re aiming to improve your access to learning through our Digital Learning Centre.
With a range of e-learning opportunities from downloads to video tutorials, presented in short, bite-sized pieces, you can snack on knowledge whenever you have a spare 10 minutes.
Who’s Who in the FEU?
Under the Federation of Entertainment Unions' (FEU) banner, the project is co-ordinated by Equity on behalf of Equity, the Musicians’ Union, the NUJ, and The Writers' Union.
The project is funded by unionlearn, the skills development branch of the Trade Union Congress (TUC).