Freelance Friends

Doing It For The Kids is for freelance parents trying to make flexible working work. For all the brave (and maybe a little bit bonkers) people tackling the unpredictability of freelance life and parenthood combined.

Coconut is a current account that takes care of your accounting and tax, designed for freelancers, self-employed people and small business owners.

Being Freelance is a podcast from Steve Folland where he chats to creative freelancers about, well, being freelance. Steve also records a weekly vlog about his life as a freelancer.

Freelance Heroes is a community of freelancers from across the UK; supporting and encouraging one another, skill sharing and representing their freelance network.

The Freelancer’s Cookbook shares easy, healthy recipes for freelancers and people working from home. If your lunch consists of cereal or cheese on toast, this is well worth checking out.

Freelance Mum Faye Dicker runs two monthly meetings where up to 40 mums (and a few dads!) gather with their babies and toddler in tow to network with likeminded business folk.

Dinghy provide low-cost, flexible and fair insurance for freelancers. Their pricing is clear and simple, and you can even pause your policy when you’re not working.

IPSE are the association for independent professionals and the self-employed. They provide support to freelancers via training and networking opportunities, offer legal and tax help to members, and also represent the interests of the freelance sector to government.

Museum Freelance is a volunteer-run network set up to support and champion freelancers and consultants working with museums, galleries, archives, libraries, and heritage sites.