Learn-to-Skate Classes and Holiday Programs

Parents enrolling children for a term, families booking holiday clinics, and schools or community groups booking group sessions.

Term or course fees per participant, plus holiday clinic and party bookings. Profit depends on filling classes against venue hire and coach costs.

• Group teaching and class management
• Organising timetables and bookings
• Marketing to local families
• Managing and training other coaches

• Working with Children Checks for you and every coach you engage, so check your state or territory's rules
• Public liability insurance, and workers compensation insurance once you employ staff (check your state scheme)
• Whether coaches are employees or contractors, and the tax and super implications, so check with the ATO or an accountant
• Venue costs are fixed, so empty classes can eat your margin
• Council approval may be needed to run programs in public spaces, so check with your local council
• Register an ABN and check GST registration once turnover reaches the threshold

Startup costs are typically around $2,000 to $8,000, depending on venue hire, equipment, insurance and marketing. Treat this as an estimate, and remember venue costs are fixed, so empty classes can eat into your margin.

Monthly revenue is typically around $1,500 to $7,000, depending on class numbers, term enrolments and holiday clinics. The estimate assumes at least about 10 hours a week, and adding coaches is one way the program may grow.

Check Working with Children Checks for you and every coach, public liability insurance, and workers compensation once you employ staff. Also check whether coaches are employees or contractors with the ATO or an accountant, council approval for public spaces, and ABN and GST registration.