02/09/2026
💜 BEHIND THE BUSINESS…
I often hear parents joke with me… “I give you all my money!” 😂 or “I must pay your mortgage!”
And I totally get why it can look that way from the outside.You pay your fees, exam entries, costumes, uniform, private lessons… and I know having a child who loves to dance can be expensive. But what you don’t often see are the invoices that land behind the scenes just to keep a dance school running.
So I thought I’d share just ONE of them. MUSIC 🎵
Something so simple. Something we literally cannot teach our classes without.
Our cost simply to be able to play music legally within our classes at the studio?
£330. EVERY. SINGLE. MONTH.
I’ll admit… this is probably one of the bills I grudge paying the most 😂 because it’s literally just for the ability to press play!
To put that into perspective, that one bill alone is roughly the equivalent of 12 students attending one class every week for an entire month.
12 students’ monthly fees…Gone. Just to play music.
And that’s before studio rent, business rates, electricity and heating (ouch), staff wages, insurance, licences, booking systems, accountancy, cleaning, equipment, maintenance, training and all the other costs that come with keeping our studio running.
I’m not sharing this for sympathy or to complain. I chose to run this business and I absolutely LOVE what we have created at SBSD 💜 But sometimes I think it’s important to show the other side of small business ownership too.
Because behind every class your child walks into, there is an entire business working away in the background to make sure the lights are on, the studio is warm, their teachers are paid, everything is insured and licensed and, apparently for £330 a month… the music is playing. 😂🎵
You can enjoy watching your child walk into class, dance their heart out and leave with a smile. 💜 And I’ll keep opening the invoices behind the scenes… even if I need a lie down after reading them. 😂
Just a little glimpse into the business behind SBSD 💜
