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This is the industry and lifestyle area of the website. We welcome any contributions or suggestions for future content. We hope to host useful links, sector finance-related articles and content, and interviews with industry experts.

Sector: Music Industry

Pact (https://www.pact.co.uk/)
Pact is the UK screen sector trade body representing and supporting independent production and distribution companies.

Musicians Union (https://musiciansunion.org.uk/)
Musicians’ Union is the UK trade union for all musicians representing over 30,000 members working right across the music industry.

Equity (https://www.equity.org.uk/)
Equity are a union of more than 47,000 performers and creative practitioners, united in the fight for fair terms and conditions in the workplace.

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Aim (https://www.aim.org.uk/)
AIM is the not-for-profit trade body exclusively representing the UK’s independent music sector.

MMF (https://themmf.net/)
The MMF are the world’s largest professional community of music managers.

PRS (https://www.prsformusic.com/)
Music wouldn’t exist without the work of songwriters, composers and publishers. We’re here to represent them and ensure that they are rewarded for their creations.

PPL (https://www.ppluk.com/)
PPL exists to help ensure that those who invest their time, talent and money to make recorded music are fairly paid for their work.

MPA (https://mpaonline.org.uk/)
We act on behalf of over 200 members ranging from the UK’s largest and most established music publishers to independents and start-ups.

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Help Musicians (https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/)
Help Musicians is an independent UK charity for professional musicians of all genres, from starting out through to retirement.

Arts Council (https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/)
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture.

BPI (https://www.bpi.co.uk/)
BPI represents the UK’s recorded music industry.

MOBO (https://www.mobo.com/)
Since 1996, the MOBO organisation has discovered and supported talent in music, film and TV.

WMP (https://welshmusicprize.com/)
Founded in 2011, the Welsh Music Prize celebrates the finest music made in Wales or by Welsh people around the world.

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Sector: Music Industry

Brit Awards (https://www.brits.co.uk/)
Launched in 1977, the BRIT Awards with Mastercard are the annual showcase for the UK music industry.

UK Music (https://www.ukmusic.org/)
UK Music is the collective voice of the UK’s world-leading music industry.

Music Producers Guild (https://mpg.org.uk/)
The Music Producers Guild was started and is supported by producers, mixers, recording engineers, re-mixers and programmers who are passionate about all aspects of making and recording music.

The Ivors Academy (https://ivorsacademy.com/)
The Ivors Academy is the UK’s independent professional association for music creators.

ISM (https://www.ism.org/)
The Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) is the UK’s professional body for musicians and a nationally recognised subject association for music.

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Sector: Music Industry

BMI (https://www.bmi.com/)
BMI supports its songwriters, composers and publishers by taking care of an important aspect of their careers – getting paid.

Making Music (https://www.makingmusic.org.uk/)
Making Music is the UK’s membership organisation for leisure-time music.

RIAA (https://www.riaa.com/)
We represent some of the most iconic record labels—Atlantic, Capitol, RCA, Warner Records, Columbia, Motown and countless others—behind today’s most popular artists. We work to protect artists’ creative freedom and promote the unique work that labels do to support them.

Royal Music Association (https://www.rma.ac.uk/)
The Royal Musical Association is the foremost society in the UK dedicated to the study of music.

GRAMMY (https://www.grammy.com/)
As the world’s leading society of music professionals, the Recording Academy is dedicated to celebrating, honouring, and sustaining music’s past, present and future.

Music week (https://www.musicweek.com/)
Music Week has been the leading trade media brand for the UK music industry for over 50 years.

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Health and Wellbeing

We know that running a successful business with a fulfilled life in balance, means looking after the ‘Golden Goose’, you!

This area will contain resources we think might be useful for your personal wellbeing and development. Please let us know if there is any other useful information we can share in this space.

The Wim Hof Method

“Over time, our relationship with the world we live in has changed. Our lifestyles have disconnected us from the natural environment.
Because of this disconnection, our age-old survival mechanisms are no longer triggered and we’ve lost touch with our inner power.
Through decades of self-exploration and groundbreaking scientific studies, Wim Hof has created a simple, effective way to stimulate these deep physiological processes, allowing us to reach our full potential.
The Wim Hof Method is about reconnecting us – to ourselves, to others and to nature.”
https://www.wimhofmethod.com/

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Mindfulness

“It can be easy to rush through life without stopping to notice much.
Paying more attention to the present moment – to your own thoughts and feelings, and to the world around you – can improve your mental wellbeing.”

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/self-help/tips-and-support/mindfulness/

5 Steps to Mental Wellbeing

  1. Connect with other people
  2. Be Physically Active
  3. Learn new skills
  4. Give to others
  5. Pay attention to the present moment (mindfulness)

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/self-help/guides-tools-and-activities/five-steps-to-mental-wellbeing/

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10 Stress Busters

  1. Be active
  2. Take control
  3. Connect with people
  4. Have some ‘me time’
  5. Challenge yourself
  6. Avoid unhealthy habits
  7. Help other people
  8. Work smarter not harder
  9. Try to be positive
  10. Accept the things you can’t change

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/self-help/guides-tools-and-activities/tips-to-reduce-stress/

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Good reads

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R Covey
This iconic 1989 self-help book by Stephen R Covey, shows you how to become a more effective person not only in business but in the rest of your life, by changing how you see the world and better understanding your own definition of success.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36072.The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=z7NGgOe5PP&rank=2

7 Strategies For Wealth & Happiness – Jim Rohn
Power Ideas from America’s Foremost Business Philosopher

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/764702.7_Strategies_for_Wealth_Happiness

Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
It advocates the importance of financial literacy (financial education), financial independence and building wealth through investing in assets, property investing, starting and owning businesses, as well as increasing one’s financial intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Dad_Poor_Dad

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Money: Know More, Make More, Give More – Rob Moore
Do you want to get to the stage – soon – where you are truly financially independent, able to use your money in the way you’d like and be completely confident in your ability to take care of yourself and your family?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34870901-money

The Richest Man in Babylon – George S Clason
Financial advice through a collection of parables set 4,000 years ago in ancient Babylon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Richest_Man_in_Babylon#:~:text=The%20Richest%20Man%20in%20Babylon%20is%20a%201926%20book%20by,classic%20of%20personal%20financial%20advice

The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
It presents itself as a discussion about how people interact with themselves and others. The concept of self-reflection and presence in the moment is presented along with simple exercises for the achievement of its principles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Now

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Never Split The Difference – Chris Voss
A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating – effective in any situation.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26156469-never-split-the-difference

Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
Hill’s works examined the power of personal beliefs and the role they play in personal success

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30186948-think-and-grow-rich

Start with Why – Simon Sinek
People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why. It was their natural ability to start with why that enabled them to inspire those around them and to achieve remarkable things.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7108725-start-with-why

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The Four Hour Work Week – Tim Ferris
He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture that has abandoned the “deferred-life plan” and instead mastered the new currencies-time and mobility-to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368593.The_4_Hour_Workweek

Tools of Titans – Tim Ferris
The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31823677-tools-of-titans