THE MONEY SERIES
The Money Series of workshops covers one of the most challenging topics for creative practitioners – financial literacy. The series starts with the basics of understanding money and diversification of income, and then ventures into the scintillating worlds of insurance, superannuation, and tax.
As with all our workshops, each one can be delivered as a single 2-hour unit or combined with others to create a bespoke learning program for your participants. All workshops can be delivered in person or online.
Money is Not a Dirty Word
Money is the lifeblood of any creative business, but financial literacy can be a real struggle for creatives. This workshop outlines some of the basics of money – with jokes, flair, and pictures!
We also look at how to navigate the inevitable famine and feast of creative money, manage cash flow, make budgets, manage our unicorns (huh?), find help, and so much more.
This workshop is ideal for:
Creative business beginners, hobbyists, freelancers, established practitioners.
Funding Fundamentals
Grants, funding, awards, and scholarships are often held up as the holy grail of a successful arts career, but this revenue stream also takes hard work and patience. Learn the basics of writing, winning, and acquitting your funding, as well as putting together a grant folder for future funding. We’ll also look at implementing a research plan to stay up to date, and creating a strategy for success.
This workshop is ideal for:
Creative freelancers, established practitioners, arts organisations.
Diversify Your Creative Income
Creatives are good at lots of different things, and this practical workshop shares ways to broaden your income and revenue options beyond the obvious or immediate. Take a deep dive into creating an MVO, conducting a skills audit, passive income ideas, adding on products and services, and figuring how to conduct testing and check on how ‘good’ your income ideas might be.
This workshop is ideal for:
Creative freelancers, established practitioners, arts organisations.
Tax Time for Creatives
Tax is a necessary pain and managing your tax obligations as a creative means getting your money stuff in order. It’s not fun, but a few simple tips and tricks (and a friendly face) can help.
Tax Time for Creatives covers the basics of tax, the key creative tax rulings you need to know, working out hobby vs business, simple tips for deductions and recording keeping, cloud accounting, and where to get more help. We also introduce the Groovy Accountants. Take the terror our of tax!
This workshop is ideal for:
Creative beginners, hobbyists, freelancers, established practitioners.
Creative’s Guide to Super Insurance
So boring, and so necessary. Super Insurance! is a workshop of two halves. The beginning details what insurance is, understanding your duty of care as a creative professional, the different kinds available, and where to go for more help.
The second half examines how superannuation works for creatives and explores the problematic world of the ‘superannuation guarantee for contractors’.
This workshop is ideal for:
Creative freelancers, established practitioners, arts organisations.
What’s it Worth? Costing & Pricing for Creatives
Working out what to charge for your creative work can be a nightmare. Where to even start? What’s It Worth covers the basics of figuring out your price point, including working out your budgets, and then moves on to the psychology of pricing, understanding the marketplace, creating loss leaders and more. A vital workshop for anyone struggling to understand the value of their own work.
This workshop is ideal for:
Creative freelancers, established practitioners, arts organisations.
