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
Click into Instagram – 16th Feb
This online workshop will explore different elements of the Instagram app including Stories and video as well as demonstrating ways for you to get more creative.
Grow your own business via email marketing – 9th Feb
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.
Maximise the potential of YouTube – 3 Feb, 2021
In this online workshop you will learn to develop a YouTube channel to help you meet your creative objectives. You will gain hands on experience with basic content creation techniques.
WEBINAR – Stay connected online – 28th Jan, 2021
This webinar will help you access or initiate a support group that meets your specific creative objectives.
Cash flow for freelances – 26 Jan, 2021
Income can vary from month to month when you’re a creative freelance. So, in this online workshop, we’ll show you how you can plan to have enough cash all year round and avoid the panic of running out of money at any given time.
Get creative with graphics – 19 Jan, 2021
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 FEU banner, the project is co-ordinated by Equity on behalf of Equity, the Musicians’ Union, the National Union of Journalists, and The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.
The project is funded by unionlearn, the skills development branch of the Trades Union Congress.