For tutors
Welcome, particularly if you're coming from First Tutors.
Thanks for taking a look. A short note about what we're trying to be and how you can help while we find our feet.
First Tutors closure
Worried about losing your First Tutors reviews?
UK GDPR gives you the right to recover them free, in machine-readable form, within a month. We've written a step-by-step with a copy-paste request template you can send today.
If you tutored on First Tutors
Years of reputation, gone overnight.
When First Tutors closed on 8th May 2026, years of reviews and earned visibility vanished with it. Tutors who'd built up a real reputation went back to zero overnight on whichever platform they tried next, and the obvious next platforms each take 20-49% off the top of every lesson, indefinitely.
Tutorperch is partly an answer to that. We're a UK directory built around the tutor: listing is free and lessons aren't commissioned. Every safeguarding certificate is reviewed by hand. The scheme that applies depends on where you teach: Enhanced DBS in England and Wales, PVG in Scotland, AccessNI in Northern Ireland. We're not pretending to replace First Tutors on day one. We're starting from zero on traffic too, but the model is built not to clip your earnings forever.
Bringing your reviews with you
Your First Tutors reviews can come too.
Once you've claimed your First Tutors archive (via the DSAR template on our recovery page), you can import up to 200 of your existing reviews onto your Tutorperch profile. We verify each batch one of two ways: by matching the .eml file First Tutors sends back against DKIM signatures, or by photo-matching your archived profile against your verified identity.
Imported reviews are clearly marked as imported from First Tutors and excluded from ranking signals on Tutorperch. The reviews you earn natively are what move you up. That keeps profile averages honest and the import a faithful record of where you came from, not a shortcut around earning trust here.
The honest part
We launched on 5th May 2026.
The site went from zero to live in just over a week. The headline features all work, real payments are running through the unlock flow, and improvements keep landing as we hear from the tutors and students using it.
What we don't have yet is the thing that takes the longest to build: visibility. Search engines take time to index us, and parents take time to find us. The platform also needs a critical mass of tutors before it feels like a real alternative.
If you list today, the first wave of enquiries won't be instant. New tutoring directories take a while to gather meaningful traffic. The reason to list now is to be there when it does, with a head start over profiles that arrive later.
How you can help
Spread the word.
The single biggest thing that makes Tutorperch viable is reach within the tutoring community. If you know other UK tutors, particularly other First Tutors regulars looking for a new home, please pass the link along. Tutor groups on Facebook, Instagram pages and stories, old First Tutors friends, even physical noticeboards if you teach in person.
Every tutor on the directory makes it more credible to the parent who lands here next.
Send them to tutorperch.com/welcome. The page reads fine for any tutor, not just First Tutors arrivals.
Who's behind this
Built by a tutor and an engineer.
Fiona H.
Tutor, co-founder
Robert S.
Engineer, co-founder
Tutorperch was built by a UK tutor who's been on the tutor side of the commission platforms for years, working with her partner, a software engineer. No agency behind us and no investor pushing for a take rate. Two people trying to make the part of tutoring nobody enjoys, finding clients, work better for everyone in it.
The hope is that Tutorperch grows into the place tutors and students default to: a fair directory where the tutor keeps what they earn and the student pays a fair price, with the platform earning honestly on the introduction. We won't get there in a week, and we won't get there alone.
Feedback is genuinely welcome. Every reply lands directly in our inbox.
Where to go next
Worth a read.
Recover your First Tutors reviews
UK GDPR gives you the right to get your reviews and profile data back from First Tutors, free, in machine-readable form, within a month. Copy-paste template included.
List as a tutor
Free profile, what we ask in return, and what the verification fee covers.
Why direct is cheaper
The maths: how a commission-free platform changes what tutors take home and what students pay.
How tutors rank
The signals we use, what we don't use, and the maths behind the order.
Identity verification
Mandatory for every published tutor. Two minutes, one fee, valid for three years.
FAQ
The "for tutors" section in particular: costs, ranking, response-time penalties, the catch.
Contact us
Questions, feedback, partnership ideas. Drop us a note.
Ready to list?
Free to list. £3.00 one-off verification covers identity and safeguarding. No commission on the lessons that follow.