Freelance finances can be unpredictable at the best of times. This session looks at how you can assess your financial situation, use various tools to monitor income and spending, understand taxes and take control of your finances.

We will cover:

How to set budgets in your personal life
How HMRC treats various types of freelancer
Tax and National Insurance for freelancers
How to keep records and keep your sanity
How to get paid on time

You will also receive free downloadable templates and plenty of online help sheets to ensure you’re not wasting time on admin.

Please note Zoom meeting details will be sent out the day before the session, for training on a Monday link will be sent out on the Friday.

The online programme now has the capability of offering a live transcript of the training session. If you would like the function to be activated please let the tutor know.

Privacy disclaimer:

Closed caption may be used to enable accessibility for students, and will only be used at the request of students. Transcripts of the sessions will not be recorded.
Students should note that any personal data revealed during the training session either in the chat or during discussions will be in the public domain.
Personal data revealed in the chat function should not be copied or shared unless consent has been given.

Cancellation Policy: Please cancel your ticket if you can no longer attend so that someone else has the opportunity.

Privacy Notice

The BECTU Sector of Prospect regularly provides vocational training for members and non-members in the film, television, and theatre industries. Prospect’s main privacy policy can be found at www.prospect.org.uk/privacy

The data we would like to collect from you is:

Personal details
Contact details
Employment details
Bank details
On-line identification data
Qualification details

The special category data we collect from you are:

Union membership number
Equality data

How we use this information:

We collect and process data to:

Administer your online booking; contact you with regard to any matter arising from your booking, or attendance at our event.

To distribute a delegate list to the course tutor
To distribute workbooks.
To process the payment fee for the course
To keep a record of course attendance
To inform you of your assessment results, if applicable
To issue course certificates, if applicable
To manage Zoom sessions, including providing the chat function and close caption transcription.
Equality monitoring
To contact you with information for forthcoming BECTU events.

Lawful basis for processing:

The lawful basis for processing your data is:
Contractual
Zoom - Legitimate Interest
Equality data – legitimate interest.

The lawful basis for special category data is:

Equality data - Explicit consent
Trade union data – Legitimate activities by a trade union
Personal data shared by students during the training session are manifestly made public by the data subject.

Who will your data be shared with?

Course training providers and tutors.

Who will process your data?

Your data will only be processed by the following organisations.

Eventbrite – when registering for courses

Zoom – on-line training sessions.

Data may be stored by these companies outside the United Kingdom. This will be done under standard contract clauses.

How will we keep your data secure?

Data will be kept in an encrypted format on secure servers.

Retention

Prospect will retain data in relation to these courses for 3 years.

Your rights as a data subject

At any point while we are in possession of or processing your personal data, you, the data subject, have the following rights:

Right to withdraw consent
Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.
Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply to have a right to restrict the processing.

Complaints

If you have any questions, concerns or a complaint about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, or if you wish to exercise your rights under GDPR please contact the Data Protection Compliance Officer at Prospect.

Our Data Protection Compliance Officer can be contacted directly by:

Post: Prospect, New Prospect House, 8 Leake Street, London. SE1 7NN
Email: datacompliance@prospect.org.uk
Phone: 0207346 0911

In the event that you wish appeal against a decision about a complaint, please contact the Data Protection Officer at Prospect in the first instance. However, you have the right to lodge a complaint directly with the supervisory authority, the ICO.

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF
https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
Telephone: 0303 123 1113

Finance for Freelancers with David Thomas