Amplify: Artist Resources

Equity

For Equity members, there is the Equity Mental Health and Wellbeing service. There’s a manned phone line (you need your Equity membership number) and signposting on their website to other services.

Industry Minds

Industryminds.co.uk offer low cost and free counselling to individuals in the creative arts industries and have a good range of other services signposted on their website.

Art Minds

Artminds.co.uk is also great for signposting to further support including self help resources and wider mental health services.

Wellbeing in the Arts

Launched in January 2023, Wellbeing in the Arts offers a low cost counselling service.

Freelancers Make Theatre Work

A great resource for freelancer theatre makers and a community to key into, Freelancers Make Theatre Work is a freelancer founded and led community for the 200,000+ self-employed and freelance workers from all areas of theatre, opera, dance and live performance, who make up over 70% of the UK theatre workforce.  Their website has stacks of useful resources and is well worth checking out.

Open Hire – freelance creative jobs in theatre

The Guardian – (often London-centric)

Jobs Go Public – (main portal for local government jobs, eg museums, libraries, other cultural jobs)

Civil Service Jobs  – more creative sector facing roles than necessarily creative ones, but perhaps worth a look

jobs.ac.uk – university-based theatre jobs tend to come up on here

Arts Jobs – maintained by Arts Council England

Arts Jobs Online – independently collated advertising site

Arts Professional – often looking at more senior roles

Cultural Enterprises – Association for Cultural Enterprise jobs board

Disability Arts – have a great listings section for creatives who identify as disabled

Arts Hub – carries a lot of Australian listings, but also listings for the UK

Run the Check – (London-centric)

Creative Lives – a creative careers journal resource, which includes an opportunities listing page

Arts Emergency

Arts Emergency helps young people flourish in higher education and the cultural industries, currently working across London, Brighton, Greater Manchester and Merseyside but plenty of online opportunities too. Sign up and offer to mentor young people, or sign up for support yourself. There’s also a brilliant page of resources which are relevant to artists of all ages!