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Marge Ainsley

Tips and support for freelancers living with keyworker family members

I’m a freelancer working with cultural organisations like museums, libraries, archives and galleries. I travel around the country and I’m…

9 min readApr 8, 2020

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Poster stuck on a wall with a rainbow painted onto it. The words above the rainbow say ‘keep smiling, keep going’.

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Marge Ainsley

Perfect Client Brief

I’ve found myself chatting to people at recent networking events about how I ‘screen’ briefs that comes my way through what I call my…

2 min readJun 28, 2019

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Perfect Client Brief

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Marge Ainsley

Looking for some inspiration? Here’s my top females to follow.

It’s International Women’s Day. I don’t usually do anything to mark it. But this year I thought I’d raise awareness of the women who have…

2 min readMar 8, 2019

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Looking for some inspiration? Here’s my top females to follow.

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Marge Ainsley

Behind the scenes of my new visual identity created by StudioDBD

Creating a new visual identity was always part of my business reboot plan. After ten years with the same look, it was time for a change…

5 min readOct 23, 2018

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Behind the scenes of my new visual identity created by StudioDBD

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Marge Ainsley

Business reboot: what happened when I took July ‘off’

For the first time in my ten-year freelance career I took July off from all client projects*.

4 min readJul 30, 2018

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Business reboot: what happened when I took July ‘off’

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Marge Ainsley

Five ways to survive and thrive: a personal account

This is a transcript of a half hour presentation I gave* at the NW Museums Federation’s Wellbeing & Resilience Seminar at the Harris…

14 min readJun 11, 2018

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Five ways to survive and thrive: a personal account

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Marge Ainsley

My take on freelancer health and wellbeing (and what happened when I made my mobile ‘boring’)

[Long read]

7 min readMar 28, 2018

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My take on freelancer health and wellbeing (and what happened when I made my mobile ‘boring’)

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Marge Ainsley

No strings attached: freelancers like talking too.

Everyone knows that one of the best things about conferences are the conversations that happen in breaks or afterwards at the pub. But…

2 min readNov 12, 2017

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No strings attached: freelancers like talking too.

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Marge Ainsley

Feeling proactive, empowered and confident?

Many of us never seem to find time to think strategically about where we are now, and where we want to be (in a business sense of course)…

3 min readMar 16, 2017

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Feeling proactive, empowered and confident?

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Marge Ainsley

Drunk and disorderly? Think again.

If you were to ever see me out and about with my stepdad, you might notice that he’s a little unsteady on his feet. You might think it odd…

2 min readSep 21, 2016

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Drunk and disorderly? Think again.

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Marge Ainsley

Marge Ainsley

Freelance cultural consultant, trainer and professional facilitator. Previously voted 1 of 50 best freelancers in the UK by readers of The Drum.

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