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PCG's Guide to Freelancing; - the ultimate starter and refresher pack for freelancers in the UK. The Guide to Freelancing provides a useful source of information to new and established freelancers and small business owners.

If you’ve just stumbled onto this website in a search around the internet, looking for information for freelancers, you may be wondering what Freelancing Matters is and, more importantly, what it has to do with you.

Samuel Goldwyn said, “A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.” It’s certainly a good quote, but it isn’t strictly true. In fact, a verbal agreement in which one person agrees to do something in exchange for payment, whether in person or on the telephone, is legal binding.

Following the success of its Fund101 business-funding scheme, Enterprise Nation has launched another initiative to help support the small business and start-up community.

One of the benefits of working from home is that you can squeeze in odd jobs (loading the dish washer, hanging out the wash, de-scaling the kettle) in between the more serious business of answering emails, writing pitches and completing research.