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How to be a great freelancer

4 week workshop with Alison Grade

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A comprehensive 4 week workshop for freelancers

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Event details

NTU Enterprise is excited to be working with Alison Grade to deliver a 4 week workshop for both practising and aspiring entrepreneurs and freelancers.

Being a great freelancer is more than being great at working ‘in’ the work you want do – you need to be great at working ‘on’ your freelancing. In this series of workshops you’ll learn from author of The Freelance Bible, Alison Grade, how to work ‘on’ your freelancing and prepare yourself so you are best positioned to find the work you want to do.

About the workshop

NTU Enterprise is working with Alison Grade to deliver a series of workshops for entrepreneurs on how to be a great freelancer.

This workshop series will give entrepreneurs the knowledge and confidence to be great freelancers as well as a framework which they can use to work ‘on’ their freelancing and build successful and sustainable freelance careers.

  • 06 May 2021 - Building Brand Me
  • 13 May 2021 - Show me the Money!
  • 20 May 2021 - Practicalities of freelancing
  • 26 May 2021 - Winning New Clients

Time: 10 am - 12 pm

These workshops will give participants a framework which they can use to work ‘on’ their freelancing and build a successful and sustainable freelance career.

A recording of each workshop will be provided to registrants, along with the relevant tools and resources.

About Alison Grade

Alison describes her key skill as transforming creative ideas into a business reality.

She accomplishes this with the films she produces, the creative entrepreneurs she mentors, SMEs and freelancers she advises and, in her Penguin, published book, The Freelance Bible.

Alison has an unique skillset in that she has formal academic training (INSEAD MBA); has worked at senior level in many media companies; is an entrepreneur who has established several businesses and is a Nesta accredited Creative Enterprise trainer and mentor.

She is a regular speaker on freelancing and her clients include ScreenSkills, IPSE, BBC, The Guardian and Simon Sinek. She brings her passion, knowledge and experience with her in all the work she does.


For more information about Alison and her work: https://alisongrade.com

State Aid

This event is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 2014-2021. This event is classed as State Aid to participating and eligible businesses, the value of which is up to £100, but is delivered completely free of charge to participants.

Booking information

To join this online session, please click ‘reserve your place’ and our team will contact you with a link for your diary.

Joining the event

Prior the event, we will send you an event invitation via email.

For more information about this event, please contact:

Giselle Martin
Marketing and Events, Enterprise Innovation Centre, NTU

eic@ntu.ac.uk
+44 115 84 82884

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Giselle Martin
+44 115 84 82884