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Freelancing can be the best job in the world but also – now more than ever – precarious and hard to navigate. Our sector lacks robust data on the self-employed workforce which is making it harder for freelancers and consultants to thrive and be recognised as the integral part of the sector that they are.
The Museum Freelance Network has therefore just launched a wide-ranging survey into the self-employed workforce within the museums, galleries, heritage, libraries and archives sectors.
We’ve been working hard on it behind-the-scenes for months and are looking forward to seeing and sharing the insights later this year.
We would like to encourage freelancers and consultants working in the sector to take part in the survey and share your views.
We hope that the results will:
- provide a robust and representative picture of the freelance community within these sectors for the very first time
- provide information to share with the freelance community
- allow us to lobby more effectively for freelancers, especially with sector support organisations and potential client organisations
- create an accurate overview of current market day rates and freelance pricing and expose any demographic / geographic variations in relation to fees and opportunities
- enable the sector to have a better understanding of who freelancers are and their needs and challenges
- provide a picture of freelancers’ contribution – paid and unpaid – to the sector.
The survey is open to freelancers and consultants based in the UK (or those with UK clients as their primary source of income) working with museums, galleries, archives, libraries and heritage sites. It is open until 30 April 2020 and we will be making the findings from the survey public in autumn 2020.
It should take around 10 minutes to complete. And, if you wish, you can enter our free prize draw to win £50 worth of high street shopping vouchers.
To complete the survey please visit: www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MF20
We would also really appreciate if you could circulate the survey within your networks and encourage other relevant freelancers to take part, for the research to be as robust as possible.
Many thanks,
Christina and Marge
The Museum Freelance Network
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