Making Freelancing Work Including Pricing with Adrian Ashton

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Foundation for Future London

Freelancing for charities and social enterprises - getting it right

<h3>About this event</h3><h3>Making freelancing work, including pricing your work</h3><h3>Join this session to find out more!</h3><h3>YOUR community, YOUR ideas, YOUR change</h3>Join Adrian Ashton for this jargon-free, interactive, and hands-on workshop. It’s vitally important that we arm our local communities with the tools and expertise to help them develop their own socially conscious projects. The Foundation for Future London Capacity Building Programme aims to provide a platform for knowledge sharing and offer networking and partnership opportunities. The programme is designed with an inclusive approach, representing participants' feedback. The programme champions inclusivity and well-being throughout.About the session:During this workshop, you'll learn about the current landscape of freelancing; be introduced to different approaches to help you work out what you might best offer as professional services; hear what other freelancers wish they’d known sooner; and be shown different ways to approach setting your prices. You will leave with:1) a greater understanding of the realities of trading as a freelancer2) planning tools to help you develop your freelance business model3) more confidence about how to set your prices4) links to different freelance support communities About Adrian Ashton:Adrian has been freelancing for nearly 20 years, working with clients that range from market traders to universities and government departments around a range of projects that relate to developing enterprise skills. He has been feted with various awards (including being named as one of the UK’s top business advisors 3 times), he is a published author in 6 countries on the topic of imposter syndrome and is known by many for his fez. Find out more and follow him on social media at <a href="https://linktr.ee/adrianashton" title="https://linktr.ee/adrianashton" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://linktr.ee/adrianashton</a> What else do you need to know?When: 14th March 6-8pm on ZoomWhere: Zoom (Link to be emailed to you prior to the event)This event is free and open to individuals, organisations and businesses working and living across the local communities in the London Boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, and Waltham Forest.Please register your place and we will send you details about how to participate closer to the time. Places will be made available on a first come, first served basis. About your Hosts:The Foundation for Future London is pleased to be working with Lisa Stepanovic, who will be leading the Capacity Building Programme. Lisa is a working-class, award-winning social entrepreneur, experienced businesswoman, activist, and mentor who was born and raised in London’s East End. She is best known as the founder of Social Ark; Social Ark builds on Lisa's many years of experience in running her own businesses and supporting hundreds of entrepreneurs on their journey, especially those from working-class backgrounds who often find themselves excluded from mainstream incubator and accelerator programmes.Follow Lisa: <a href="https://twitter.com/Lisa_Stepanovic" title="https://twitter.com/Lisa_Stepanovic" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@Lisa_Stepanovic</a>About the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund:In 2020, Foundation for Future London, through funding from Westfield Stratford City, created the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund - an ambitious five-year programme that aims to invest £10 million into the local communities of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest. The Fund aims to support local organisations and individuals to create new jobs, learning, training, and educational programmes through the means of arts, culture, innovation, public realm and creative placemaking. The Fund aims to transform and catalyse the lives and careers of people across east London by putting funding, resources, and support straight into local people’s hands.Year 4 of the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund has now opened. With the generous donation from Westfield Stratford City, Year 4 of the fund will continue to provide new jobs, learning, training, and educational programmes through the means of arts, culture, innovation, public realm and creative placemakingThis year we are continuing our partnership with Lisa Stepanovic, who is delivering a series of capacity building events, starting with pre-application workshops, as part of a 12-month Capacity Building Programme.

About Foundation for Future London:Foundation for Future London is an independent charity established in 2015 created to connect communities, the new East Bank and its globally renowned arts, innovation and cultural partners. We want to ensure East Bank is London’s must-visit destination and becomes a resilient, thriving, world-class neighbourhood of local and global significance.We’re fundraising to expand grant-making opportunities for East Bank communities and partners and facilitating creative placemaking, to support local places, learning, training and employment through arts, education, culture and innovation.Our vision is for a vibrant and inclusive creative East Bank, creating authentic engagement with local people of East London in the boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.We are a part of the East Bank partnership, connecting local communities to the new centre of culture, education, innovation and growth being built on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, East London. We are also partners with Culture Mile and its organisations.Our work is supported by East Bank’s Founding Partner and Official Sponsor, Westfield Stratford City, and City of London.