Your CIMSPA membership offers a huge range of additional benefits and following the launch of Professional Status, we are delighted to be able to introduce even more great opportunities and savings for you. We’ve rounded up the latest additions below.
Your CPD Library
Accessed through your member dashboard, you’ll now find hundreds of hours of complimentary professional development opportunities to support you, whatever your role. We’ve collaborated with quality providers to give you access to webinars and short courses that provide flexible learning, accessible at a time that suits you.
SkillGate
Bite-sized learning on everything from managing meetings to Excel.
Exclusive member webinars
Access on-demand webinars that will build your knowledge and support your work with different client groups. Here’s some examples of the topics that we feature:
- Curating a self-reflective practice to enhance your career
- Working with culturally and ethnically diverse communities
- Physical activity’s role in mental illness prevention and treatment
- The business of fitness and strategies for sustainable growth and income
- Female health and performance 101
Complimentary learning from our partners
Choose from a range of learning opportunities offered by CIMSPA quality assured education partners that are free for you to access. Take a look at some of the topics available:
- Health and Safety Introduction Course
- Introduction to Exercise for Parkinson’s
- Seated Yoga
- How to be a Better Teacher
- Squat Master Class
- Introduction to Sensory Sport
- Level 2 Playwork
Other great learning and skills development opportunities
We’ve compiled a collection of free-to-access learning covering a range of useful topics to help you to develop skills to support you in your role or business.
Learning includes fundamental topics such as first aid, data protection, safeguarding and customer service from well-known trusted providers such as British Heart Foundation, ICO and Red Cross.
Discounts for home, work and more
As well as fantastic learning opportunities, we want to provide you with rewards to enhance your lifestyle, so you truly feel the benefit of your CIMSPA membership.
Savings on your weekly shop, travel and days out
As a member, you have exclusive access to Howden Sports Benefits, a rewards platform designed to help you save money on everyday essentials. From groceries and retail shopping to travel and days out, the scheme offers great discounts that are tailored for you.
These aren’t just perks; they’re practical savings that make a real difference.
Don’t forget, with your CIMSPA membership you have access to various other benefits.
- Receive sector news updates via our monthly member bulletin.
- Access to our sector-specific digital publication, MoveProfessional.
- Receive a complimentary FitPro Core membership with educational webinars and discounted learning opportunities.*
- Opportunities to build a professional network through our vast community of members and partners.
- Opportunities to be involved with CIMSPA consultations, focus groups and committees, helping to influence and shape sector policy and future research.
Gain the recognition you deserve with professional status
Having a professional status is a way to show the world that you are a trained and highly skilled professional in your chosen career, and signals your dedication to best practice, personal development and being qualified to tackle the challenges faced by the sector.
- Your professional status title indicates your level of expertise and experience within your role.
- Your exclusive accreditation credential in the form of a digital badge is your way to showcase your professional status, offering a verifiable visual representation of your professional status.
- Use your post nominals after your name to demonstrate to employers, the public and professionals in other sectors that you are a recognised professional.
- Professional status comes with a clear and accessible career pathway to support your progression and ultimately allows you to gain greater recognition in your career.
You can find out more about your benefits in your member dashboard.
*Only eligible membership categories have free access to a FitPro Core Membership.