New year is the perfect prompt for a time of self-reflection. What does 2025 look like for your professional development?
Whether you have a clear career pathway or you’re looking for some inspiration for your next piece of CPD, we’ve put together a selection of the latest courses and endorsed qualifications to broaden your learning horizons. From full university degrees to short CPD eLearning courses, by choosing to focus on your continued professional development, you’ll be contributing towards maintaining and enhancing your professional status.
CPD
Remember – you can submit your CPD to your CIMSPA member profile to build your professional portfolio, showcase your professional status and earn your CPD points.
Inclusive Leadership for Senior Managers
Foster a better culture in your workplace and deepen your understanding of inclusive leadership with this supportive six-week programme.
What you’ll learn:
- How to strengthen the quality of team engagement
- How to increase productivity and efficiency whilst building organisational capacity
- Sustainable frameworks for informed decision-making and problem solving
Provider – Netwomen
CIMSPA CPD Points – 6
Calisthenics Foundations Instructor course
This course will equip you with a strong foundation of knowledge and skills that you can apply to your own training and coaching practice. You’ll learn correct technique, exercise modifications and progressions of movement so you can help clients to start their calisthenics journey.
This course bridges the gap between having an interest in calisthenics and being able to coach the basics up to your level of proficiency.
Provider – McDermott Fitness Academy
CIMSPA CPD Points – 10
Splash Masterclass
Designed for Level 2 teachers, this masterclass will provide you with the basic health and safety knowledge, customer service skills, child development information, confidence and creative ideas to teach children between 3–5 years.
Provider – Swim Wales
CIMSPA CPD Points – 7
Inclusive PE eLearning
Designed for practitioners working in schools, colleges and other educational settings this course will help to include pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). It will improve your confidence delivering inclusive PE and create outstanding experiences for every pupil regardless of their abilities.
Provider – Activity Alliance
CIMSPA CPD Points – 1
Personal Training Visually Impaired Clients
Receive a comprehensive learning experience covering various aspects of working with individuals with visual impairments, including facility considerations, environment, guiding techniques and exercise adaptation.
Topics covered:
- Understanding visual impairment
- Recognising indicators and prevalence
- Health and safety considerations
- Exercise programme design
- SMART goal setting
- Comprehensive client support
Provider – Future Fit
CIMSPA CPD Points – 1.5
Discover your next CPD opportunity
Visit the CIMSPA Endorsed Training Directory for a comprehensive list of the CPD courses available to support you throughout your career in sport and physical activity.
Our directory is regularly updated and shows courses and providers that are CIMSPA accredited and meet our professional standards.
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CIMSPA member webinars – keep informed and updated with knowledge and best practice from our esteemed guest presenters.
Exclusive to CIMSPA members, keep an eye on your emails to register for the next webinar and earn additional CPD points.
UK Coaching Club* – over 500 exclusive resources such as courses, industry training materials, webinars, toolkits and expert guides.
You can access UK Coaching Club via your portal. Log in and look under the ‘Member Benefits’ tab, then click ‘UK Coaching Club’ to get started.
FitPro* – over 95 accredited CPD courses available at a discounted rate to help elevate your career.
You can access FitPro via your portal. Log in and look under the ‘Member Benefits’ tab, then click ‘FitPro’ to get started.
*Only eligible membership categories have free access to a FitPro Core membership. These are Practitioner membership categories: Personal Trainer, Gym Instructor, Group Exercise, Exercise Referral, Swimming Teach, Yoga Instructor Associate, Pilates Instructor Associate, Coach, Coaching Assistant and Senior Activity and Health Practitioner.
Endorsed qualifications
FdSc Sports Coaching and Development
Develop the pedagogical practice required to coach participants of different ages and abilities. This course will position you to gain employment in sports coaching and community-based development roles.
Topics covered include:
- Orientation to higher education and research in sport
- Introduction to physical education and school sport
- The coaching process
- Equality, diversity and inclusion in sport
- Coaching in the community
- Sports development and interventions
- Sports coaching and development: Professional practice
- Elite coaching practice
- Sport, physical activity and health in practice
- Contemporary issues in sports coaching and development
- Planning and conducting research
Awarding organisation – Birmingham City University
Professional standard aligned to – Coaching Assistant
BSc (Hons) Sports Therapy
Start your career as a sports therapist and gain invaluable learning experience with the in-house Sport and Wellbeing Clinic at Buckinghamshire New University.
Topics covered include:
- Processes of injury prevention and assessment
- Therapeutic treatment
- Exercise rehabilitation
- Biomechanics of human movement, physiology and functional anatomy
- Principles of exercise
- Skills to become a proficient self-employed sports therapist
Awarding organisation – Buckinghamshire New University
Professional standard aligned to – Gym Instructor
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