job ideas for young teens (merged)

Savvy_Sue

leiela wrote: »

This thread has got me thinking, i might ask her if she wants to come in for a few hours a week and help me with the house work, i'd rather pay a familiy member than a stranger and i bet she could use a few extra ££'s.

What do you think would be a fair amount to offer to pay her??

Our office cleaner has just left, we were paying her £6 per hour, but we know that was a bargain rate because that's all she asked us to pay her as we are a charity. she's not leaving because of the money, btw, but moving away! We had a quote from a local company and they wanted £220 per month and reckoned it would take two people 3 hours to do!

Anyway, I digress. She's only 16, is she any good? Or will you have to spend a lot of time 'training' her? I think I would offer £5-6 with a review after 3 months: if she can be left to get on with it to your satisfaction. You would be supplying materials and equipment, presumably.

Next question: are you going to employ her, or tell her to register as self-employed? I would recommend self-employment to her: she needs to phone your local HMRC office to register. She'll need to keep records of what you pay her. At £36 per week from her apprenticeship (it sounds like that's what it is), she's not likely to need to pay any tax, at least not this tax year, so that shouldn't put her off. Small receipt book is all it needs to begin with.

You could go for cash in hand and hope no-one ever finds out, but that's not a course I'd recommend.

fuzzgun19

Has anyone heard of any survey companies that a child of 11 could register for?

flea72

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

Has anyone heard of any survey companies that a child of 11 could register for?

some of the market research companies have surveys that apply to teenagers, but these are all conducted via the parents own membership

all surveys that apply to younger children, are conducted from the parents POV

i dont know of any company that would allow a child of 11 to register in their own right

F

Bebs

flea72 wrote: »

some of the market research companies have surveys that apply to teenagers, but these are all conducted via the parents own membership

all surveys that apply to younger children, are conducted from the parents POV

i dont know of any company that would allow a child of 11 to register in their own right

F

Hi, there is one called Dubit Informer, they are great, my daughters have done loads of work for them and they normally pay in vouchers, they do phone parents before allowing the kids to take part - Good Luck

http://www.dubitinformer.com/

uolypool

My 13 year old daughter does our family ironig in exchange for 2 dance lessons a week which cost £5.60 each, she does the weekend ironing so includes school uniforms etc on a sun and then does whatever is washed between then and wed on a thurdsay evening.Her 17 year old brother wears cotton shirts for his waitering job and she charges him £2.00 for each shirt(so makes £6 extra a week there), and our nextdoor neighbour has just fractured her wrist and will be in plaster for 6 weeks so she has just employed her for 2 hours each day over the weeks holiday to potter round and play with the kids for £2.50 an hour and £1 each day for putting washing in machine then in drier, and £10 on a sat to do the ironing. so this week she will be coining in big time. I also pay her £5 a week for all the little jobs she does round the house during the week