[Gayle]

If you look on our website there are also two other opportunities there and there are no age limits on them.

We are looking for photography tutors and life drawing tutors.

Let me explain how we pay tutors who want to start a creative project.
We have to make money on room hire but we're aware that no one wants to commit to the cost of hiring rooms if they don't know whether they can fill the classes or not.

So we do it on a split basis to start off with i.e. if the tutor were to start up a photography class/group they would charge (for example) £2. They they would get £1 and we would get £1. So, if only two people turned up that would be £4 takings for the night, we would get £2 and the tutor would get £2.

Obviously we can't do this long term but we can do it short term. Using this system means that there is no loss or risk or commitments on either side. We promote using our usual methods - flyers, websites, facebook etc and we expect the tutor to go out and promote by putting up posters and sending out press releases and talking to the radio, etc.

So far we have found this system works really well for the tutors who make a real commitment to it and work at promoting it. Two groups have set up using this system - one a singing group who now has 18 members and the other a drumming group which has 10 members.

I can't retrain people in different careers but I can help them start up something for themselves which will hopefully turn into something profitable.