CIMSPA becomes member with International Confederation of Registers of Exercise Professionals (iCREPs)

CIMSPA is pleased to announce that we are now a member of the International Confederation of Registers of Exercise Professionals (ICREPs).

ICREPs is an international partnership between registration bodies around the world that register exercise and fitness professionals.

ICREPs operates across four continents, and includes the independent, competency based registers from ten countries with CIMSPA operating the UK register. In total, members of ICREPs operate registers which include a quarter of a million exercise and fitness professionals.

So what does this mean for CIMSPA members?

Now that CIMSPA is a member of ICREPs, exercise and fitness professionals that hold a current CIMSPA membership can gain portability for their professional registration allowing them to seek employment in other countries where the register is also operated by a member of ICREPs. This includes Australia, the USA, Ireland, UAE and others.

Natasha Eason, Head of Education at CIMSPA said,

“We are delighted that our membership of ICREPs has been confirmed. This opens up new opportunities for CIMSPA members, in terms of them being able to port their registration to work in other countries.

Whilst we don’t want to see our talented members leaving the fantastic work they do in the UK, we know that for some, having the opportunity to work overseas is a brilliant chance to develop both personally, and as an exercise and fitness professional, before returning to the UK to continue their career.

Becoming a member of ICREPs is an honour for us as the application process required us to demonstrate best practice in line with the registers operated by members in other countries.

We look forward to working even closer with ICREPs and other members to share good practice and learn from work underway in other countries.”

To find out more about ICREPs, please click here