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End Date
What is your age?
Which Local authority area do you live in?
Local Authorities grouped into North, West and mid, South Wales
Roughly what percentage of your work takes place within a 50mile radius of this area?
How do you identify in terms of gender?
Considering your answer to the previous question, do you feel that you have adequate support when working in the creative sector?
How would you describe your ethnicity?
Ethnicity grouped into non-white and white
Do you identify as Deaf or disabled?
How would you describe your impairment?
How much Welsh do you speak?
During the last year (before the Covid-19 crisis), roughly what percentage of your working time on creative projects involved you using the Welsh language?
During the Covid-19 crisis, roughly what percentage of your working time on creative projects involved you using the Welsh language?
Do you have any caring responsibilities?
Have changes in these responsibilities due to the Covid-19 crisis affected your ability to work in the industry during this time?
Which areas do you primarily work in? You can tick as many as apply to you.
How much money (pre-tax) do you usually earn per year from this work?
Have you lost work due to coronavirus?
Roughly how much money have you lost?
How long have you worked in the creative sector as a freelancer?
What is your employment status?
Do you usually need to support/supplement your income from the creative sector (i.e with other work/benefits)?
Are you a member of a creative industries union (Eg. BECTU, Equity) or industry membership body (eg. People Dancing)?
Did you undertake paid work by an APW in the year before the Covid-19 crisis?
Did you undertake paid work by an APW during the Covid-19 crisis?
Did you undertake paid work by a non-APW organisation in the year before the Covid-19 crisis?
Did you undertake paid work by a non-APW organisation during the Covid-19 crisis?
Did you receive financial support from the UK Government’s Self Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) ?
Did you receive financial support from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRC) through your employer (furlough)?
Have you applied for Universal Credit or other social security benefits during the Covid-19 crisis?
Did you receive Universal Credit or other social security benefits?
Have you received any charity support during the Covid-19 crisis?
Do you currently have sufficient income to live on, either through work, government schemes, grants, loans, or benefits? (Sufficient = able to pay bills, for example)
Did you apply for the Arts Council Wales Urgent Response Fund?
Was your application successful?
Did you apply for the Arts Council Wales Stabilisation Funds (either as an individual or as part of a project funded organisation)?
Before the Covid-19 crisis, had you ever applied (as an individual or part of a project funded organisation) for an Arts Council of Wales grant to undertake a creative project?
How many of these grant applications were successful?
Do you feel included or represented in planning for the future of the creative sector in Wales?
How has the current Covid-19 crisis affected your well-being, if at all?
Thinking about the future, which of the following statements apply to you?
How satisfied are you with Arts Council Wales’ response to the Covid-19 crisis?
How satisfied are you with the Welsh Government’s response to the Covid-19 crisis, in relation to culture and the arts?
What do you think will be the priority needs of freelancers over the next 6 months?