Bectu Extra
Bectu Extra
Bectu Extra is Bectu’s enhanced membership tier.
It combines the benefits of standard Bectu membership with low-cost Public Liability Insurance and personal accident cover, access to 24/7 wellbeing support and counselling through our member assistance programme, and exclusive training on essentials for freelancers.
Freelancers are essential to the success of the UK’s creative industries. From film crews and designers to technicians and digital artists, their skills power the sector’s global reputation.
Bectu has a long history of standing up for the sector’s freelance workforce and pushing for long-term change to make freelancing a fair, secure, and sustainable form of work.
Who is eligible for Bectu Extra?
Bectu Extra is available to any Bectu member working as a freelancer in film, broadcasting, independent television production, theatre, live events, games development, fashion and the technical sector of the arts.
This covers members against legal liability for costs and damages arising from Bectu-related work activities. The policy also provides members with weekly cash benefits following a Bectu work-related accident that causes temporary disability and a lump sum for permanent disability or loss of life.
The Bectu Extra membership benefits of Public Liability and Personal Accident insurance for eligible members of Bectu is arranged by Howden Insurance Brokers Limited trading as Hencilla Canworth, a specialist insurance intermediary for the creative sector.