Hello Debbie,
We charge £2.50 plus VAT per child for our school sessions and I
think that is at the lower end of the scale. No one ever baulks at the cost. It’s
a tricky one charging per head or per session. I favour per head as it seems
better value for the school, but then I aren’t paying a freelancer.
David Birks
Trowbridge Museum
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Subject: Freelance Education Service
Having
recently suffered huge cuts to our staffing, we are now having to freelance out
our education sessions and I am looking for some advice on reasonable
prices. We currently charge £1.50 per child for schools, but we are now
in the situation where we can't afford to pay a freelancer any extra
money. This means that the only money a feelancer would get would be
whatever the school pays, if that makes sense. Clearly we're going to
have to put our prices up! Any suggestions on what a reasonable rate would
be to charge a school, without scaring them off but that also has to translate
into a reasonable amount to pay a freelancer? My feeling is that it would
be easier to have a set price per session rather than per head to guarentee a
certain level of income. Does anyone have any experience of this?
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