A new report investigating whether local areas impact opportunities for freelancers or atypical creatives has been published. Alanna Reid explains how it will support advocacy work.
After a decade-long career working in local and central government, I joined Culture Commons in early 2022 year on a part time basis alongside developing my career as a freelance writer for the stage and screen. Having been in a PAYE employment structure for all of my career, I admit I found it tough to get my head around what was now required of me as an ‘atypical worker’.
Working on Culture Commons’ 'Culture in Crisis: 12 Recommendations for key decision makers' with the Centre for Cultural Value, I became even more alive to the issues surrounding the precarity faced by some workers in the creative and cultural sectors. I was shocked to learn that during the pandemic, large number of self-employed, freelance, and atypical workers in the creative and cultural sectors (33% of the overall workforce in these sectors) were unable to access emergency financial support programmes and were generally less supported by the state than cultural workers in other comparable countries...Keep reading on Culture Commons.
After a decade-long career working in local and central government, I joined Culture Commons in early 2022 year on a part time basis alongside developing my career as a freelance writer for the stage and screen. Having been in a PAYE employment structure for all of my career, I admit I found it tough to get my head around what was now required of me as an ‘atypical worker’.
Working on Culture Commons’ 'Culture in Crisis: 12 Recommendations for key decision makers' with the Centre for Cultural Value, I became even more alive to the issues surrounding the precarity faced by some workers in the creative and cultural sectors. I was shocked to learn that during the pandemic, large number of self-employed, freelance, and atypical workers in the creative and cultural sectors (33% of the overall workforce in these sectors) were unable to access emergency financial support programmes and were generally less supported by the state than cultural workers in other comparable countries...Keep reading on Culture Commons.