Tutor Island1
Tell us what your child needs
Share the subject, level, and how you would like lessons. Online, in person, or either works.
Find the right tutor, at any level
Your journey to the right match starts here.
- Background checked before listing
- Every message screened
- No commission ever
- UK-based platform
Every profile is reviewed by hand before it goes live. Sarah, the founder, reads each tutor’s background check herself, wherever it comes from, and approves the profile, or does not.
How it works
1
Tell us what your child needs
Share the subject, level, and how you would like lessons. Online, in person, or either works.
2
Browse background-checked tutors
Every tutor passes a criminal record check before they appear. You only ever see verified profiles.
3
Connect directly
Message a tutor and, once they accept, pay £9.99 once to connect. You are told of every connection your child makes.
Safeguarding first. Always.
Every tutor is background checked before you ever see them, and you are part of every step of your child's tutoring.
For families
The cost of commission, in pounds
Commission platforms add a markup to the tutor’s rate on every single lesson, for as long as you keep booking. We charge £9.99 once. Drag the slider to see the gap grow over a course of lessons.
20
Through a commission platform
£750
20 lessons x £37.50/hr
The tutor’s £30/hr rate plus a 25% platform markup, baked into every lesson.
Through Tutor Island
£609.99
20 lessons x £30/hr + £9.99 to connect
You save £140 over 20 lessons.
Worked example at £30 an hour. Commission markups on major platforms typically range from 15% to 35%; we use 25% here.
Tutors keep every penny of their rate, and listing on Tutor Island is free.
For tutors
Where the money goes
Most tutoring platforms take a share of every lesson you ever book, for as long as you keep booking. Tutor Island charges £9.99 once, at the moment you connect, and never takes a share of a lesson.
On a commission platform
£225
reaches the tutor
10 lessons at £30 an hour is £300. A platform taking 25% keeps £75 of it, and takes its cut again on every lesson after that.
On Tutor Island
£300
reaches the tutor
The same 10 lessons at the same £30 an hour. The tutor sets the rate and keeps all of it.
The family paid £9.99 once.
Example figures, not a quote. Commission models vary between platforms: some take a percentage out of the tutor’s fee, as shown here, and others add a markup to the price the family pays, as in the slider above. Around 25% is typical either way.
£0
commission, ever
£9.99
one-off to connect
100%
of tutors background checked
Why Tutor Island?
Background check required
Every tutor must verify a current criminal record check before their profile goes live, wherever they live and work.
No commission, ever
Pay a small one-off fee to connect with a tutor. After that, lessons are arranged directly.
At any level, across the UK
Every subject on the UK national curriculum, taught by tutors who know the exam boards.
Subjects we cover
Maths
Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Statistics, Mechanics
Science
Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Combined Science, Environmental Science
English
English Language, English Literature
History
GCSE and A-Level history
Geography
Physical and human geography
Languages
French, Spanish, German, Italian, Mandarin, Latin, Welsh, Arabic, Urdu, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, British Sign Language