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Education should be affordable, so here at Snowball Tutoring, we charge ZERO commission fees. You can rest assured that every penny you spend goes towards your tutor and their hard work.

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How It Works

Step 1: Make A Free Account
To contact tutors, you need to make a free student or parent account.
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Step 2: Search For Tutors
After you have an account, you can browse our tutor profiles based on subject and price by clicking the button below.
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Step 3: Organise a Lesson
Using our websites chat function, you can message tutors privately to arrange the first lesson.
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About the company

Snowball Tutoring was founded in 2024 as part of a student project funded by The University Of Edinburgh.

The company has two simple objectives: to make lessons more affordable to the public and to help students earn a source of income in a way that is flexible around their degree.

By simpily removing commission fees that usually inflate the price of each lesson by 10-25%, and solely employing university students who tend to charge less than qualified teachers, we can offer an online tool to help find tutors for a far more affordable rate.

Apprehensive about making a commitment?

We understand that you may not find the perfect tutor first time, and that’s why we encourage all of our tutors to offer a free trial lesson. This is a lesson where you can get to know your tutor a little better and decide whether it is a good fit. These trials are commitment free, if you don’t feel like it’s a good match, there is no obligation to book in a second lesson.

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Ensuring Your Safety

Some of our tutors are a part of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme. This is a scheme that does background checks on the individual to ensure they are safe to work with children and vulnerable adults.

Tutors who are a part of this scheme have the icon on the right displayed in their profile.

To find out more about the PVG scheme, you can click here.

Check out our articles about tutoring!

We write weekly articles about all topics related to tutoring. Student or tutor, we’re sure you’ll find something of interest here.

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FAQ's

Most frequent questions and answers

The price of a lesson ultimately depends on what the tutor decides. However, most of them will charge between £10-£25 per hour. The majority of other sites start at the £20 mark and only go up from there, so we are confident you will find a good deal.

We are here to help you match with the perfect tutor, and from there you are free to organize lessons and payments as you please. Most tutors prefer to be paid via bank transfer or a third-party site, for example PayPal. They may request payment prior to the lesson as a pose to after it, and some may offer block bookings to save you the hassle of sending money over every single lesson. We would recommend you discuss payment methods and schedules before beginning lessons. We are happy to offer any advice, just fill out a form on our contact page.

We understand you and your tutor may not always click. For this reason, we encourage all our tutors to offer a free trial lesson to get to know each other a little before diving into the lessons. If, however, you have multiple lessons before deciding it isn’t working out, we would advise you to tell them you would like to stop at the earliest convenience. You don’t have to give them a reason for leaving if you do not feel comfortable doing so. We would encourage you to look again, our team is huge and we’re sure we can help you find someone you click with.

Yes, to contact tutors using our messaging platform you will need an account. It only takes a minute to set up, is completley free and we won’t send you any email marketing. Create your account by clicking here.

Currently Snowball Tutoring is exclusively online-based regarding the lesson type offered. We do not advertise tutors locations on their profiles for security reasons and therefore we do not encourage face to face lessons.

There is a range of online platforms that can be used for lessons; our personal favourites are Zoom and Microsoft Teams due to their reliability, accessibility on all devices and screen sharing ability. You and your tutor are free to choose whichever platform works best. All you need to get started is either a computer, laptop, tablet or even a mobile device as well as a reliable internet signal.

Whilst we appreciate online learning has its drawbacks, it also does come with a huge range of benefits including the convenience of being able to learn from the comfort of your own home, the flexibility to do lessons whenever and wherever you want, and for some students it can be less stressful as they don’t have  someone peering over their shoulder whilst they work. Even if you are apprehensive about online classes, we would really encourage you to at least give it a try!