Our FREE Guide to Freelancing

PCG's Guide to Freelancing is a useful source of information to new and established freelancers and small business owners, offering a wealth of helpful advice about running and nurturing a successful business.

The guide covers:

• Setting up your business
• Accounting, banking and insurance
• Tax matters
• Getting paid
• Running your business
• Securing work
• Your personal finances
• Closing a company

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Help and resources on freelancing, contracting and consulting

You will find a wealth of guidance and useful information to help you setup, run and maintain your freelance business successfully. There is also guidance and support for those working with freelancers including clients, agencies and accountants.

• Help and advice on running a freelance business features all you need to know on how to run your business, from starting up, to managing, tax and legal advice and finding work.
• Contract templates designed to help you stay outside of IR35.
• Calculators which contractors can use to help aid their financial decision making
• PCG's quarterly magazine, Freelancing Matters, available for download featuring useful articles on a range of matters that are relevant to the freelance contracting community.
• A UKAS-accredited ISO9001 certification scheme designed and developed specifically to meet the needs and working practices of the independent contracting and consulting sector.
• A supplier directory for freelancers offering a range of products and services to help freelancers run their businesses, in some cases at preferential rates.

Working with freelancers
Advice and guidance to accountants, clients and agencies and also information on how to work more closely with PCG and its 19,000 members through our Directory of Members.

Our FREE Guide to Jobseeker's Allowance

PCG has published a new guide to claiming Jobseeker's Allowance for freelancers and contractors.

PCG's guide to Jobseeker's Allowance has been extensively researched and covers eligibility rules for owner-directors of limited companies, sole traders, umbrella workers, and others. Information on how to receive help meeting mortgage repayments and council tax bills is also included.

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You may also be interested to see our Policy work section which includes the numerous policy briefings and consultation responses PCG has made to ensure your voices are heard in Westminster, Whitehall, Brussels and beyond.

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