The self-employed and freelancers

Community is a proud champion of the over four million strong self-employed workers and freelancers across the UK. Together with our members, we are bringing together the self-employed and freelancer community to give you a collective voice. Through this, we’re lobbying for much needed change like extending sick pay, paid parental leave, and better health and safety protections for the self-employed, while maintaining the freedom and flexibility that your work brings.

The self-employed workforce is the hidden backbone of the UK economy, now making up almost 15% of the country’s workforce, driving innovation and delivering important services. While self-employment is the answer to finding a good work-life balance, we know it can also mean longer hours, less pay, insecurity, and financial worries – that’s where we come in.

Join the union for the self-employed and freelancers today

From late payments and dealing with difficult clients, to self-assessment tax returns, we understand your legal rights as well as the challenges of being self-employed.

Through this industry specific knowledge, we are working to secure a new deal for all self-employed workers and freelancers across the UK. Whether you’re self-employed full-time or part-time, a freelancer, sole trader or run a limited company or a subcontractor – we want you to join us and to become a part of our collective voice for the self-employed. Join Community today for just £7.13 a month.

Find out more below about how we’re fighting for better self-employed rights, our member-exclusive benefits and how we can help you at work and more.

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Join our fight for a safety net and better rights for the self-employed

Too many people don’t understand what it means to be self-employed. That’s why we’re using our collective voice to raise the voices of the self-employed and freelancers to secure better support and provisions, including sick pay, paid parental leave, tackling late payments, changes to Universal Credit, stronger health and safety rights and more.

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Bespoke legal advice and support

As a member of Community, our team of trained officers and trade union representatives will be on hand to provide legal advice and support on issues such as self-assessment tax returns, debt recovery and late payments, dealing with difficult clients and more.

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CPD-accredited courses to support you and your business

As a self-employed Community member, you have access to over 650 CPD-accredited learning courses and training programmes. From digital skills, marketing and using social media for your business to business qualifications and search engine optimisation, our courses are designed to help you and your business flourish.

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Access member-exclusive benefits

Alongside our self-employment advice and support, as a Community member, you get access to an exclusive package of benefits. This includes legal representation with will writing, family matters and conveyancing, financial support when times get tough, discounts and offers on your gym membership, shopping, cinema trips, holidays and more.

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Network with our self-employed community

As a Community member, you will have access to our self-employed forum. Here, you can network, collaborate on campaigns, ask advice from fellow self-employed Community members, share work opportunities and more.

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Join the union for self-employed workers today

For too long, the voices of self-employed workers haven’t been heard loudly enough – we’re changing that. We’re fighting for a better future and a new deal at work for the self-employed and freelancers, and we want you to join us.

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