I have an important question for james1013.
Are you an employee (employed by the school) or are you self employed?
If you are employed then your employer decides who to hire and when to hire them. You can discuss the level of work available with your employer but I don't think that many employers are going to satart employing people and paying the employer's part of national insurance etc etc unless there is suficient work.
If you are self employed then welcome to the open market. You need to market yourself, improve the product(s) you offer and basically get out there and find the work because of you don't then the competition will.
That is the whole idea of being self employed!!!
Not related to your position because I don't know what it is but I do find that both instructors and clubs are very happy to operate "self employed" while it is saving them tax and/oir national insurance contributions. However, as soon as market reality appears then they (both sides) want to be regarded as emplyer and employee as appropriate.
