Self-Employed Personal Trainer Agreement (Gym and Trainer)

A licence agreement letting a self-employed personal trainer work from your gym – rent or commission, use of the facilities, standards, insurance, safeguarding, client ownership, restrictions and termination – drafted to support genuine self-employment.

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Gyms, fitness & sports clubs

Self-Employed Personal Trainer Agreement (Gym and Trainer)

About this document

What it’s for

Many gyms let self-employed personal trainers use their floor in return for monthly rent or a share of fees. The agreement must make clear that the trainer runs their own business, while protecting the gym’s members, reputation and premises. It also helps support the self-employed status of the arrangement for tax and employment law purposes, though the reality of the relationship is what counts.

When to use it

  • When a self-employed trainer starts working from your gym
  • When changing from employed to self-employed trainers, or reviewing existing arrangements
  • For other freelance practitioners using your space, such as sports therapists (adapt as needed)

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

  1. Definitions
  2. Licence to use the premises
  3. The trainer’s business
  4. Standards, qualifications and insurance
  5. Conduct and brand
  6. Data protection
  7. Liability and indemnity
  8. Restrictions after termination
  9. Term and termination
  10. General

Also included

  • Schedule 1 – Fee
  • Schedule 2 – Standards

How to complete it

  • Choose rent, commission or a mix in Schedule 1
  • Check the trainer’s qualifications, insurance and (if they will work with children or adults at risk) DBS before they start
  • Read the guidance on employment status before you sign

Key points to check

  • If you control how, when and where the trainer works, set their prices or require them to work set shifts, they may be a worker or employee – take advice
  • Make sure your own insurance covers trainers using the premises

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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