Tootall & I hosted one for free. Five people would attend for sure, one showed - thus would recommend you get some money up front to ensure people who will attend for sure do attend (can always donate it to a supporting organization, return it, pick up food whatever). Costs are what, couple cases, some powder, mostly time (prep, dry run and actual clinic)- we didnt think these were enough to worry about if it helps people be interested in shooting sports. Also a while back one fellow showed me to get me started and another fellow gave me some more advanced tips so play it forward right.
We asked them to get some basic information before attending - i.e. diagram with name of parts of the case, some load data... so would have it to work with during the clinic and also get them thinking before the clinic (maybe come with some questions, know where we were going, that type of thing).
Tootall produced some cut away cases in various states of their life that were useful to understand pressure signs and physical affect on the case. I had some salvaged bullets (rifling), a single stage press and progressive and then a lot of case prep gear. Between us we had a good sample of different powders, bullets, etc.
Would recommend going through the actual process too - case prep to bullet seating - not just give a theoretical account of the process with props but to produce some ammo (if you're really worried about safety then deactivate the primers first). We easily went over 4 hours, we could probably have spend less time on some of the theory (all the factors that affect pressure, powder selections, bullet selection).
We didnt do this but may be useful - setup dies, show too much, too little, how feel / can tell. But hey, one also has to learn through experience.
If they're not smart enough to figure it out on their own maybe they should stick to factory ammo and leave the supply of components to the confident, competent, self-taught reloaders...
Always nice to meet a person who cant learn something from another - "confident" that another way of saying "never uncertain, rarely right?"
