How does one open a MA school ? (UK)

[Kyoku]

Good day to you all, just registered as I've been wondering about this and might be moving to the UK in the near future due to recent developments.

I will be moving to the north of Birmingham (UK), and as a long-time Kyokushin karateka I've been searching for a dojo in or near Stafford but I apparantly can't find any (not in IFK, my current organization, but also not even in IKO).

So the question is, how do you start up a school of any MA. Considering there is none in the neighbourhood for this style, I would like to think it's possible. I will ask my Sensei about it too but since I'm from Belgium, we can't know everything cause laws are different, etc.

So any experienced help is much appreciated. (PS yes I have the grade and teaching experience to do it, just incase some people would say you need to be yadayada grade)

Osu !

[vincechoo]

business license, location, insurance, rental & fixed overheads, advertising and salaries (staff and yourself)

is it all worth it?

[Kyoku]

Well, I'm not planning to "pay" staff, as the clubs over here don't do that either. We teach, do various stuff like mailing and organizing tournaments on a non-profit bases, in the concept that the money we get from members goes towards paying expenses as renting a hall, and paying for traveling expenses to tournaments so our members only have to pay a part of the trip, or nothing at all.

I did follow 'law' and all at university, but since it's in a different country I would have to start from scratch on that anyway probably. It's not like I want to make a living from it, but make a respectable dojo so I myself can continue training too. The fees would go towards buying equipment at first, and the rent etc of course. If the club grows enough, it will also cover expenses from the board (towards phonebills for Karate related things etc, small stuff)

Why wouldn't it be worth it? Kyokushin is half my life.