Thinking about going freelance in 2027?
A free one-hour workshop for charity people who keep almost handing in their notice.
Thursday 3 December, 12pm–1pm, on Zoom. Bring your lunch.
Live only. No recording. No replay.
If you want it, you’ll need to be there. That’s deliberate. People open up more when nobody’s hitting record and you won’t end up on YouTube.
You've worked in the charity sector for five years or more. You're properly good at what you do. And you've been thinking about freelancing for longer than you'd like to admit.
Maybe you're stalking freelancers' LinkedIn profiles at 11pm. Maybe you've worked out your day rate in a meeting while someone else was talking. Maybe you've had a good week and decided to stay. Again.
What you haven’t got is a clear answer to the question ‘Should I go freelance in 2027?’ that keeps you up at 2am.
In the hour:
The three questions to answer before you leave your job (I wish someone had asked me them six years ago)
A first look at Take the Leap, my six-week programme starting in January
Live coaching and your questions
Who is this for: Experienced charity professionals thinking about freelancing, or very new to it.
Can’t make it? There won’t be a replay, so I’d book the hour now, work from home that day if you can and guard it.
Register to attend live:
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Meet your host:
Bethany Helliwell-Smith
Business coach. Former fundraiser who somehow ended up leading a CRM migration, licking 250 envelopes, fixing the printer and taking major donors to the opera. Standard Tuesday in 2019.
16 years in the charity sector. 6 years freelance. Which, for someone who used to update her CV every 18 months "just to see", is a bit of a shock.
I'm Bethany Helliwell-Smith. I've worked in the charity sector since 2010. After my third redundancy before I was 30, I went freelance. Now I coach charity freelancers to build businesses that work around their lives. I've got two small children, a husband who starts work at 6.30am, and I haven't worked a Monday morning in years.
I coach like the big sister I am. Bringing Big Sister Energy to charity freelancers. I've done it first, I've made the mistakes already, and I'll tell you the truth whether you asked for it or not.
