Freelancers are likely to suffer cashflow problems as late payments increase during the Olympic Games according to a warning from a leading finance company.

Hettie Maylam, 27, is a student of multimedia journalism – “Which is like an MA,” she says – at Winchester University. Her course finishes at the end of this month and, naturally, she’s thinking about what she’ll do then. The answer? “I’ll probably freelance.”

If you’ve just stumbled onto this website in a search around the internet, looking for information for freelancers, you may be wondering what Freelancing Matters is and, more importantly, what it has to do with you.

Small and medium-sized enterprises may be set to dump the Royal Mail en masse following this week’s rise in the cost of postal services, new data from business services company Sage UK suggests.