Brighton's Best New Media Freelancers

The Brighton Farm is a networking group for web designers, developers and people with related new media skills who live in Brighton and the surrounding areas. We meet weekly in different venues around Brighton and Hove.

If you're looking for a web freelancer, please check our skills and profiles to help find someone you like, or come along to one of our meetings for a chat. Generally someone in the Farm can help you do what you want, and even if we can't, we're bound to know someone who can.

Next meeting: 8th July

The next Farm networking meeting will be on Wednesday 8th July at the Hampton pub, 57 Upper North Street, Brighton. Starting 8pm. Map.

Joining the Brighton Farm

You join by coming to the meetings in the pub. Regular attendees are also invited to join our private mailing list.

We're a friendly bunch, everyone is welcome to come along to our meetings to talk about new media and technology, refer work and generate new business.

Upcoming meetings

We have group on Upcoming which lists upcoming Farm meetings and other interesting events. It has an RSS feed if that's how you like tracking things.

News: Crunch discount for Farm members

Crunch the online freelancers/contractors accounts service are offering a 10% discount to Farm members for a limited time. Check out their Farm offer page for more details.

News: Crunch demo

On Wednesday 20th May Crunch will be giving a demonstration of their new online accountancy system for freelancers and contractors at The Werks (map) at 7pm, then joining us at the Wick Inn at 8pm to gather feedback and enjoy some beers with freelancers. If you find doing your accounts a pain, come along and have a look at their system.

News: Jobs Fair 2009

We're happy to be back at the Wired Sussex Brighton Digital Media Jobs & Skills Fair. It's happening on Thursday 26th of February in the Corn Exchange.

The freelancers session is from 2pm-4pm. There will be several talks and we'll be running a networking session as well.

[Update] Here's a write up of Paul's talk, Freelancing in Five Minutes

News: Farm Birthday Bash

We're returning to our birthplace, the Farm Tavern to celebrate our 6th birthday on 18th February. We'll have the upstairs room. Pleas come along if you'd like to celebrate with us and meet some great freelancers.

News: Farm Freelancer Award

As part of the Digital Media Awards we are judging the Farm Freelancer Award, thanks to the sponsorship of Freelance Advisor, which is helping the awards happen.

[Update] Congratulations to Bevan Stephens for getting the award, commiserations to Sarah Bird and Jonathan Aizlewood who were both extremely close to winning.

News: We are 5

The Farm had it's first meeting on 6th February 2003, and we've been meeting practically every Wednesday ever since, so we're now the ripe old age of 5, or 1027 in internet years.

News: Job Fair

Thanks to everyone who came to our networking session within the Wired Sussex Digital Media Job Fair on Wednesday 13th February, and to Darren Fell and James McCarthy for their talks.

News: Hack Day

We ran a Hack Day as part of the Brighton Digital Festival 2007, you can find out more about the event and what people built at the Hack Day blog.