Pottery studio website design that shows each class, its dates and what it includes

Your pages, the features on them, the final price and the timescale, in writing before you pay a deposit. Hosting, care and any ongoing SEO are listed separately, so you can see what is one-off and what is monthly. On the Business package the first year of hosting and care is included.

Not always. Across the UK, booking by phone, email or an online form usually makes a distance contract, and those normally carry a 14-day right to cancel. The Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 exclude services related to leisure activities where the contract sets a specific date or period of performance, and the government's guidance explains that the exception protects traders who set aside capacity they may not easily be able to fill or resell. Classes are not named in either, so a single class on a date, or a course whose evenings are fixed when it is booked, may fall within it. If you rely on the exception, the customer must be told before they are bound that they have no right to cancel; where the right does apply, you give its conditions, time limit and procedure, with a cancellation form. A gift voucher carries no date, so do not assume the exception reaches it. Nothing stops you being more generous, for example by letting people move to another date.

As long as you decide, provided the terms are clear and fair. Asked in the House of Lords in January 2020, the government said it strongly encourages businesses to be transparent about voucher expiry dates, that the law lets consumers challenge unfair terms, and that where expiry dates are used it strongly encourages at least two years. Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 an unfair term is not binding on the customer and written terms must be transparent, which the CMA explains as easy to read and understand; its guidance also says a term with a significant effect has to be brought up front. In practice, print the expiry on the voucher itself and repeat it wherever vouchers are sold, along with what one can be spent on and what happens to any balance. These rules apply across the UK.

The law makes the right check available rather than compulsory, but a tutor who teaches children regularly qualifies for the highest level. In England and Wales, DBS guidance treats teaching children on more than three days in any 30-day period as regulated activity, and its own example is someone who teaches children every Saturday morning; that role is eligible for an Enhanced DBS check with a check of the children's barred list. It is illegal for an organisation to knowingly employ someone barred from that work. A self-employed tutor in an eligible role applies through a DBS umbrella body. Since 1 September 2026 the exemption for supervised work has gone, so a helper working alongside the tutor every week may be in regulated activity too. Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own checks, through Disclosure Scotland and Access NI. On the website, name exactly the checks your tutors hold.

In England, usually not, on Ofsted's guidance as updated in October 2026. Most childcare for children under 8 must be registered, but tutoring or coaching in one or two kinds of activity, arts and crafts among them, for children aged 3 and over is exempt, as long as the activity is the main focus and the aim is for the children to improve their skills; for children aged 3 to 5, it covers less than 4 hours in any one day. Offer a third kind, such as sport or performing arts, and the exemption no longer applies. Separately, a provider who looks after each child for less than 2 hours a day cannot register at all, unless it is before or after school care, and children aged 8 and over can only be registered voluntarily. This is England's rule, with the exemptions set by the Childcare (Exemptions from Registration) Order 2008; a studio in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland should check with its own nation's childcare regulator.

What your own assessment of the studio decided, in plain words, so people know what to wear and what to expect. In Great Britain, HSE's guidance on kilns in schools and craft studios recommends a protective barrier, such as a metal cage, for any kiln with accessible hot surfaces in a studio the public are admitted to, with operating and emergency instructions near each kiln. Its guidance for the ceramics industry notes that clay, slip and glazes contain crystalline silica, that dust settled on surfaces and clothing gets back into the air, and that dust should be vacuumed or cleaned wet rather than brushed. The demo shows rules like these as a short list, marked as a sample a real studio replaces with its own. A studio in Northern Ireland should check with its own regulator, since this guidance covers Great Britain.

Yes, once the customer takes it into account. Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, anything you say or write about the service that a customer takes into account when booking is treated as a term of the contract, together with any qualification you gave at the same time. So 'clay, glazes and firings included' is a promise, and 'usually ready within a month' is a different promise from 'ready within a month'. For a booking made at a distance, the Consumer Contracts Regulations also require the total price, and any extra charges or the fact that there may be some, before the customer is bound. Put what each class includes, and any extra such as clay beyond an allowance, on the class page itself. These rules apply across the UK.