Our V.C.S. (Vision, Charter, Strengths)

Our Vision

Our vision is one where IFA creates the dynamics that bring together the freelancer community and end user clients in a common freelancer market to ensure the transfer of services is carried out to their mutual benefit. We recognise the pace of business commerce in the 21st century and the need for freelancers and end user clients to quickly confirm freelancer competency, scope of supply, terms and conditions and legislative compliance.

IFA services and products and those of our Corporate Members were designed specifically to remove barriers to this uninhibited delivery. We recognise that our individual members and their end user clients share the freelancer market space with all the other players, e.g. agencies, legislators and representative groups.

With the effects of further globalisation and the increasing need for extending international exploration, it is incumbent on representative bodies to protect and promote the interests of all their members through the lobbying of Government departments and other bodies. This is one of the cornerstones in our platform of essential IFA services.

Our Charter

  • To promote the freelancer market world wide.
  • To facilitate ease of entry into the freelancer market.
  • To provide the freelancer market with an enhanced method to promote and service jobs/contract requirements.
  • To provide freelancers with all the necessary business information and tools required for service delivery.
  • To provide freelancers and end user clients with an international lobbying voice.
  • To promote high levels of business ethics across the freelancer market.
  • To promote the continuous professional development of freelancers.
  • To promote and educate on the benefits of wealth maximisation within the freelancers' community.
  • To promote a common-needs understanding between all suppliers and users of the freelancer market.
  • To provide IFA members with bespoke benefits packages by using the organisation's bulk buying power including the opportunity to share in profits generated within IFA.

Our Strengths

The extent of IFA knowledge and experience combined with our innovative packaging of services and technology is unique. We have over 50 years combined history of providing services, products and advice to freelancers, agencies and end user clients around the world. Our founding member companies pooled their composite experiences and combined them with complementary resources to create this new catalyst, one which releases the positive and unequalled support mechanisms that is the IFA. Everything is designed with one objective in mind: to make it easier, more profitable and more rewarding for all freelancer market participants to do business.

Removing Conflicts of Interest

In recognising that the freelancer market is huge and can never be monopolised by any individual or group of individuals or companies, our founding member companies have provided both the financial resources and unrestricted knowledge and technology to enable IFA to deliver benefit to all users of this marketplace. They have provided all of this in the full knowledge that their competitors, end user clients and freelancers will all benefit in equal proportion. They have set out their stall embracing the ethos of 'fair, open and unrestricted trading' to all freelance market members.