Creative Equity Toolkit

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The Big Freelancer Survey 2025

Since 2020, the Big Freelancer Survey has provide detailed analysis of the past 12 months of freelancers in the UK. The data has fed into ongoing lobbying of both industry bodies and government, informing them where support is most needed and what the greatest issues facing arts freelancers are. This is the fifth and final survey in this series.

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  • 60+ minute
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  • Published: 2025
    Country: UK

  • Author: Freelancers Make Theatre Work

Article

The undercutting of industry standards

This article by Daniel McBurnie argues that the misuse of sector jobs sites by companies with the resources to pay fairly needs to end.

"When artists accept substandard pay, it risks becoming the industry norm, making it harder for future generations to negotiate fair wages. This is not just an issue for individuals; it affects the entire arts ecosystem."

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  • 7 minute
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  • Published: 2025
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Daniel McBurnie, ArtsHub

Article

Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole of two people with long hair and dresses one is trying to pay at a grocery register for fruit and a bottle and general supermarket goods with bills marked exposure. The colours are warm and earthy and yet bright, creating a sense of dynamism and vividness. While the person who is being offered the exposure bills has a hand raised, the fingers are drawn in a wavy way, suggesting movement and resistance

When Should You Work For Free? (An Artist's Perspective)

A cogent article that is broadly applicable about paying artists for their work, and presents a compelling argument for why artists shouldn't work for free - and how unpaid labour feeds into deeper issues of inequity and exploitation.

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  • 14 minute
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  • Published: 2022
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Sophia Cai, Art Guide

Article

The Conversation: Why sensitivity readers matter – and should be paid properly

A piece that gives a primer on sensitivity reading that quotes Jinghua Qian, Will Kostakis, Alison Evans - and gives a good introduction on what a sensitivity read is, the importance of sensitivity readers but also the limits of a sensitivity read, and a guide to rates of pay.

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  • 5 minute
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  • Published: 2022
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Helen Young