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.
Free workshops and webinars
Unfortunately, we are no longer able to offer live training workshops and webinars.
Please see our online training courses or view recordings of our previous webinars.
WEBINAR – Building Confidence 26 Mar, 2021
In this webinar, we will share tips and techniques to help you gain and maintain confidence through the vicissitudes of your freelance career.
How to create promo videos for social media – 24 March
This workshop will help you make snappy, animated promo videos that help grab attention and promote your creative work online.
Build new revenue streams – 16th March
In this workshop, we aim to help you identify new ways to utilise your unique experience and expertise to develop new revenue streams.
Blogging for creative freelances – 10th March
Everybody tells you that you must have a website and you must have a blog but nobody tells you how – or why. In this workshop you will learn the key steps to creating your blog but, more importantly, what you can use one for and how it will become an important part of your creative work.
Write that book and get it published – 2nd March
Both writing and then getting a book published can be incredibly challenging. However, thousands of people do so every year, so why not you? To help you, this workshop aims to give you a realistic idea of how to go about writing your first book, and how and where to sell it.
How to run a crowd funding campaign – 26th Feb
Crowdfunding campaigns can be effective in raising money for creative projects. However, if you suspect that there’s more to it than just putting your great idea online and waiting for the money to roll in, you’re right.
We’ll spend the day working through how to structure your own crowdfunding campaign, from how to choose a platform and set a realistic target to how to find your audiences and tell your story.
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.