Event title
- The Creative Freelancer’s Experience
Location
- Online and in person at the Royal Society for Arts (RSA) House, The Great Room, 8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6EZ
Date
- Wednesday 19 November 2025, 14:30-16:00
Panel Discussion Experts
- Yasmin Khan (Director for Individual Practitioners, Arts Council England)
- Philippa Childs (Deputy General Secretary of the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Communications and Theatre Union, BECTU)
- Amy Tarr (Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Creative UK)
- Alexander Jacob (Freelance Television Director (Casualty, The Dumping Ground, 4 o'Clock Club, Doctors, Coronation Street and Emmerdale)
Event details
New data shows that nearly 40% of Creative Industries freelancers are out of work and only 13% feel secure in their job (Bectu 2025).
As the government looks to appoint a new Creative Industries Freelance Champion, event participants are invited to join the panel for a discussion of the freelancer experience at this free event.
Dr Mark Taylor (Research Lead for Arts, Culture and Heritage at the Creative Policy Evidence Centre (PEC), and Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods, University of Sheffield) will unveil the findings of the Creative PEC’s latest report titled Who Stays and Who Leaves? Mapping Arts, Culture and Heritage Careers.
Dr Taylor's presentation will be followed by a panel discussion involving the above-named expert guests.
This event will be chaired by Bernard Hay (Head of Policy, Creative Policy Evidence Centre).
To book attendance at this event, please access The Creative Freelancer's Experience.
Convened by the Creative Policy and Evidence Centre, Newcastle University.