New Biz, drama workshops, advice needed

cupcakes96

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

But you talked about two teachers, one of which you are employing - it's a legal requirement!

They will be doing a job-share Sue, both self-employed working for me for 2 hours a week alternate weeks.

Thanks for the advice re payments Paul and jexygirl, to be honest, Im not really doing this to make a profit, I have worked for a casting agent/drama school for a while now (my children attend also) and Im not happy at how it is being run, the whole reason for starting myself is to give mine and some others a fairer chance at things. I dont particularly want loads of children attending or it becoming a big business, If I have enough to cover costs (I work that out as 6) then Im happy.

Savvy_Sue

cupcakes96 wrote: »

They will be doing a job-share Sue, both self-employed working for me for 2 hours a week alternate weeks.

Ah, but ARE they self-employed? Would HMRC agree with you? If they don't feel like working one week, can they send any Tom, !!!!!! or Harry to do the work? Thought not ...

Take a look at this page.

You might get round this by all 3 of you being in a partnership, but you'd need a written agreement as to who was doing what, and what share of the profits they're getting.

FatVonD

We do something similar (not drama but other people's kids coming to our premises) and our PLI is just shy of £60 per month (but is part of a bundle with contents, employers liability, etc)

paulwf

cupcakes96 wrote: »

They will be doing a job-share Sue, both self-employed working for me for 2 hours a week alternate weeks.

Thanks for the advice re payments Paul and jexygirl, to be honest, Im not really doing this to make a profit, I have worked for a casting agent/drama school for a while now (my children attend also) and Im not happy at how it is being run, the whole reason for starting myself is to give mine and some others a fairer chance at things. I dont particularly want loads of children attending or it becoming a big business, If I have enough to cover costs (I work that out as 6) then Im happy.

That's great. However, if anything it makes it even more worthwhile to think about payment methods and let everyone know where they stand, i.e. there is no point in dealing with the extra hassle and stress when you aren't doing it for the money and instead want to enjoy it.

It is always good to start off on a "proper" footing with everyone knowing what's what. You can always relax the rules later, but if you start off being too laid back it is hard to go the other way.

texranger

cupcakes96 wrote: »

Even if he/she is self-employed?

yes even if you are self employed, employer liability is usually included as standard with all business insurances because it is a legal requirement with all businesses.

another one you need if you hold records of employees, students, members on computer or manual files is Data Protection Registration which is £35 a year