Introducing Professional Status to the sport and physical activity sector

With approximately 600,000 roles, the sport and physical activity sector has an important role to play in society today – the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the population, social cohesion, community engagement and to the economic prosperity of our nation. 

Launching in September 2025, current CIMSPA members will be issued with a professional status, with all sector professionals, including those who are not currently members, being invited to apply for these new titles. Professional status for the sport and physical activity workforce will ensure that professionals in the sector are professionally recognised by the public and allied sectors. 

Sport and physical activity sector professionals will gain a clear, defined title, postnominal letters and digital assets to use to assure other professionals, employers, relevant sectors and the general public that they are skilled, trustworthy and ethical. 

A professional status is earned through learning and experience, is issued by CIMSPA, and then it must be maintained through learning and skills development. 

CIMSPA’s strategy, ‘Releasing the Power of Our Profession’, provides a framework to deliver professional recognition to sport and physical activity, with professional status sitting at the heart of it. 

As a chartered professional body, CIMSPA is formally permitted to grant professional status to the sport and physical activity sector through the royal charter. 

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