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Myself and a friend have been doing very occasional training for 5 years on Working with People who Self Harm, mostly to voluntary sector organisations. The last two day sessions we did we charged £300 for. The evaluation has been so positive that a major training provider in our county wishes to add us to their rolling programme. Do we need to register as a business or charity? What do we do about paying tax?

FYI I have the CTP and professional training & development experience, although my current job doesn't have a huge training focus.
Louisa Hare

5 Responses

  1. other sites
    As well as all of the legality its a good idea to get yourself on as many sites that feature trainers and share ideas, tips and contacts. One that also has tenders advertised is http://www.trainerbase.co.uk interesting, topical and useful.

  2. Insurance
    Don’t forget professional indemnity insurance if you don’t have it. As a CIPD member it will cost about £100 pa.

  3. thanks and yikes
    Heartfelt thanks to everyone for really helpful and practical advice. Howard, yikes, why do I need prof. indemnity?! I really hadn’t thought of that but now you mention it, We do do a bit of ‘Safer Self Harm – managing risk’…