Tag: finances/legal
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Tax for Actors: Get Your Tax In Gear
Cut through the tax panic attacks with these tips for all freelancers… What with us still reeling from the self-assessment deadline in January (or, what I like to call anti-Christmas) and going into a new financial year in April (or, what I like to call sad-new-year) what better time to dig our heels in and talk about our…
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Between Acting Jobs: The Journey from High Pay to No Pay
Actor John Currivan gives his advice on preparing for the big drop in income between acting work… Steady and high paying acting jobs are rare in our business. Having them makes us feel like we’re flying high! We eye the start date of a long-term contract like a pilot eyes up their launch schedule.…
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How to Secure Your Position in the UK After Brexit: Guide for Actors
The Immigration Advice Service gives us a guide for self-employed European actors Published: February 2019 In October 2018, I wrote a piece for Spotlight to provide initial guidance for EU actors looking to prepare for Brexit. In it, I mentioned the EU settlement scheme – which remains the most viable way to secure your status in the…
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Between Acting Jobs: Staying Afloat with Your Side-Gig
John Currivan talks us through the importance of the side-gig – and how to make sure it helps keep you afloat between acting jobs! The performance industry can feel like a wide lonely ocean. When we’re working, it feels like we’ve hopped onto a luxury cruise liner, we can barely feel the boat rocking. When…
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Brexit and the Performing Arts: What Can You Do to Prepare?
Brexit is approaching… Luna Williams of the Immigration Advice Service gives us insight on what we can do now to prepare. Read our updated guidance on working and auditioning in the EU of you’re a UK National. Published: October 2018 The easy exchange of talent, experiences and ideas has always been central to the performing arts…
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What You Need to Know About Licensing for Overseas Work
Spotlight spoke with Liz Stretton to bring you the essentials on licensing. This is part two, all about licensing for young performers working abroad! Liz Stretton specialises in helping parents and agents to licence children for work abroad. This is a slightly more complicated process than licensing for local productions, so we asked Liz to break…
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What You Need To Know About Licensing in the UK
Spotlight spoke with Liz Stretton to bring you the essentials on licensing. This is part one, all about licensing in the UK! If you’re a parent or a young performer, you might have already encountered the concept of licensing. In essence, young performers require a licence to work as performers if they are considered under…
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4 Steps to Ending Tax Panic
Getting self assessment under control with these four steps from 1tap This article is sponsored by 1tap If you are a self employed performer submitting a yearly self-assessment tax return, my guess is you are hitting the frenzy stage. With just a few days left until the self assessment deadline on the 31st Jan, you…
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Top Tips for Understanding Contracts
Our tips for getting started with contracts to protect your rights as a working performer They’re not exactly a sexy topic, but contracts are super important when you’re working jobs here and there as a performer, and don’t have an agent to negotiate on your behalf. Work can come and go, and new contracts are…
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How to Start Your Own Theatre Company
Explore the ins and outs of running a small theatre company with Fledgling Theatre. Fledgling Theatre (who are Christopher Neels, Callum Cameron and Patrick Holt in the UK, and have an Australian arm headed up by Chris Huntley-Turner) have been creating their own work as a company since its founding members left the Royal Central School of Speech…