What would be a fair price to charge for these kids?

[Socoldicantfeelmytoes]

I give private lessons at £30 per lesson per child (A lesson lasts an hour)

How much would be a fair price per child per lesson for a small group of four children being taught together?

4 x lessons per week

I really don't know why Mumsnet bother with subsections to the message boards, when everyone seems to think that "AIBU" is the entirety of Mumsnet and post in here .

£20/child

I always work on 2/3 of the cost.

Thats on the assumption that they still get the same teaching as in a 1:1 situation.

If they get less (because equipment now has to be shared so they have time waiting around) then 50% is more reasonable

What exactly do you want us to vote on? YABU to post in AIBU.

As to your question, why don’t you charge them £7.50 each per lesson, so you end up with the same per hour? If it’s more trouble, charge them £8.

My gut instinct is £15.

Depends entirely on what it is.

4 horses in a riding lesson has far higher overheads than 4 people playing the recorder.

£15-20 depending on the subject. Maths tuition, £15 each. Horse riding £20.

What are you teaching?

I think £20 is a bit of a pisstake. I’d expect more of a discount for a 1-1 lesson turning into a full group lesson

This is for my child's activity

1:1 per hour is £40
1:2 per hours is £55
1:3 per hour is £70
1:4 per hour is £85

@Socoldicantfeelmytoes Not enough information

1. What is the subject you are teaching - and if you don't want to say what it is, at least can you tell us how much INPUT you have to put in to one child. If you have more than one, for example, does it mean that the first child will get less input from you - or is it something that all 4 can do concurrently with only a little input from you to any of them?
2. Are all 4 children from the same family - or 4 individual people. That matters too. From the same family or family group, they'd expect a discount for each subsequent person attending. If individual people - well, depends on the answer to my first question

We paid a KS1 tutor £30 an hour and when my second child joined the classes it became £45 an hour, because the tutor had to prep slightly different activities for each kid, including providing resources, had to report on progress for each kid so there is work outside of the main class.

But we paid the swimming teacher £40 an hour which stayed at £40 when the second child joined because there was no additional equipment or time needed.

So it depends on what you teach.

£20 for an hour's horse riding would be an absolute bargain! Try more like £50 round here anyway (but then you are contributing to care of the horse as well as the teacher's time and of course insurance and safety measures and so on). So I doubt it's that.

I agree with others that it does entirely depend on what kind of activity it is, you're going to need to say at least an indication or the whole thread will be taken up with people guessing. If there's no extra overheads whatsoever, no extra equipment/consumables, utilities or room hire charge, no extra admin to do afterwards or anything else at all different other than the teachers attention is divided between 4 rather than one, I'd maybe charge them something like £10 -12 for the group hour (so the teacher makes 25% -30% more to account for the extra effort of teaching 4). But obviously if there are other hidden costs to extra students then that changes things...

For 11+ practice 10 years ago it was £12 per child in a group of 6 for an hour, if that’s any help!

Based on 1 hours private being 30, id expect a 1 hour small group to be around 10 or 12.
You will still be better off than individual private sessions per hour.
This is judging off a dog sport I do btw

Are you the thread police? You seem to have posted similar on a few posts today

I tutor post graduates and charge £80-£100 per hour. However I have a Ph.D and the teacing is very much individualised to the particular student. £20 per hour for one child is not a "piss take". This is a beginning rate. It depends upon the qualifications and experience of the tutor.

What is your AIBU?

If no extra costs to you, and the students are a similar level with minimal differentiation, Id say £10 each. You're earning £40, which is £10 an hour more than individually and presumably they'll be more likely to stick at it with a cheaper price.

£40/1 child
£30/each for 2 children

Is what we pay..

It depends what you are teaching them . 4 people doing a maths lesson I’d probably charge £10 , 4 people having a riding lesson it would be at least £20 each .

This was my initial thought. Assuming it’s something like SATS or recorder. Different if it’s piano/drumming/horses