How to be a Greenlancer

Course Details

While eco-anxiety continues to evolve along with the effects of climate change, it’s never been a more important time for creative freelancers (self-employed or PAYE) to adopt and incorporate sustainable practices in their everyday lives.

Running a greener freelance business also means tackling those personal emission hotspots such as Transport and Energy, a Greener Home and Workplace, Materials, Food and Waste and one of the valuable takeaways from the session will be to give you a better understanding of your carbon footprint and how you can reduce it.

Delivered by Picture Zero, ‘How to be a Greenlancer’ is an engaging, straightforward guide on how you can be more environmentally focussed and finance-savvy on a very personal level.  And even grow your business, worth and network by differentiating yourself and attracting clients and employers who also value sustainability.

Freelancers will discover where they can make the biggest environmental impacts and cost efficiencies:

• Working from home
• Digital/online presence
• On the move
• In the office / workspace
• During everyday activities and choices

Freelancing in a green way also means being able to access local government incentives, greener pension/savings schemes and attractive tax benefits.    Leading sustainability experts Picture Zero will show you how to live and work in a way that is both great for us, the planet and one’s pocket; and provide each participant with a ‘GREENLANCER TOOLKIT’, listing the services, suppliers, and solutions available.

So come and join us for this lecture-light but water-tight, unique training opportunity, and discover what you can do, not only as an individual, but as a freelance collective, to make a really big impact.

‘How to be a Greenlancer’ is followed in the afternoon (1400-1600, at the same location) by a talk with Hope Solutions Senior Sustainability Manager, Phoebe Currie, who specialising in low carbon event production and business sustainability strategies.

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Delivery details

How this works

This programme is fully funded by Media Cymru, in partnership with Picture Zero.

There will be 30 places up for grabs, allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Who can apply?

This 3-hour in-person workshop is open to any Welsh or Wales-based freelancers working in the creative sector, interested in green issues and more sustainable working practices.

Whether you’re thinking ‘where do I start’ or are already adopting greener work habits and are keen to build more.  The only requirement is that you’re willing to share your good ‘greenlancer’ practice with others – to help us all take better steps to saving the planet as well as our pockets.

Numbers for each session will be capped at 30.

When and Where?

This special one-off session will take place in-person on Wednesday 23 July between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm.

The venue is the beautiful Cardiff University, Bute Building, on King Edward VII Avenue, CF10 3NB.

Additional venue information

With the workshop itself taking place in the Exhibition Space (Room 0.66, ground floor):

Any Questions

If you have any questions, please contact:  media.cymru@southwales.ac.uk