Whether you voted for or against Britain’s departure from the EU, it’s likely that as a freelancer or independent contractor, you have questions regarding the position in which this leaves you as a self-employed person. Clearly, we’re in a period of financial instability and nobody can say with any certainty how things will pan out. […]

Last month, as part of The Life Hub’s ‘Startup Stories’ series, we took a look at the burgeoning Belfast tech scene. Not wanting to ramble too far through the alphabet, this month we’ve been to the Midlands to talk to the people running the Innovation Birmingham Campus. With 40% of the population under 25 years of age, […]

June 9th was bright and sunny here in the UK – the ideal weather to celebrate National Freelancers Day. The annual event is a bit of fun concocted by the good people over at IPSE to help promote what, if Twitter is anything to go by, looks like nothing short of The Good Life. And the stats […]

Thursday June 9th is National Freelancers Day in the UK – a great event that has become well established within the freelance community over the last few years. It centres around an annual conference – this year taking place at the Hospital Club in Covent Garden – that includes speaker events, workshops and a rather prestigious awards ceremony. […]

Cash flow: two words that can cause the blood of even the most hardened freelancer to run cold. According to various interviews and surveys that we’ve done in the 12 months since we launched The Life Hub, cash flow is the thing that worries independent contractors and similarly self-employed people more than anything else. It keeps them […]

There’s not denying that going freelance, or becoming an independent contractor, is incredibly exciting. However, like most things that get the pulse racing, the excitement can come with a massive side-order of nervousness. As freelance writers ourselves, here at The Life Hub we know that taking the plunge is never an easy decision. That’s why we thought we’d start up this […]

Think tech startups in the UK, and it’s likely that you’ve already got a mental geo-tag placed somewhere around Shoreditch. As London grows ever-more expensive, however, an increasing number of these companies are looking elsewhere, often to one of the Big Bs – Birmingham, Bristol or Belfast. At MAF, we’re always keen to hear stories from our friends […]

The adage that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes may be a little close to the bone for anyone who’s spent January shouting at an HMRC webpage whilst trying to unravel the dark arts of the self-assessment tax return. As we breathe a collective sigh of relief that all those tax […]

Moving into the freelance world from a work environment where admin – and especially tax administration – was dealt with by someone else, can be mind-boggling and a little intimidating. You can be at the top of your professional game yet still be flummoxed by the most elementary accounting concepts. So, with that in mind, […]