CIMSPA Benefits

Your CIMSPA Benefits

Your CIMSPA membership* comes with a huge range of benefits, from discounted and complimentary CPD opportunities, to savings on retail and benefit partner offerings to truly support you and your business.

CIMSPA Benefit Partners

We offer a range of valuable benefits through our trusted CIMSPA Benefit Partner programme, designed specifically with the needs of the sport and physical activity workforce in mind. Every Benefit Partner has been carefully chosen to support both CIMSPA members and partners, and has successfully completed thorough due diligence checks to ensure quality, credibility and relevance to the sector.

Each of our benefit partners has developed an exclusive package for CIMSPA members and partners, giving you access to tailored solutions that can support your professional practice, development and day-to-day operations. These packages include preferential rates, discounted services or added-value offers, helping you make the most of your membership while investing in your career and organisation with confidence.

20% off website creation

Receive a professionally designed, fully deployed, and securely hosted website, tailored to your needs and managed by experts for peace of mind.

Low cost card payment fees

Keep more margin on every transaction you process while enjoying real, personalised support (not chatbots or endless ticket queues).

Digital risk screening

Safehire.ai supports safeguarding and safer recruitment giving organisations clearer insight when appointing staff, volunteers or others in trusted access roles.

Discounted DNA testing

Gain insight into your genetics through over 180 health reports, covering topics such as exercise response, vitamin absorption, inflammatory responses and much more.

Free FitPro Core membership

Receive up to 30% discount on over 95 CIMPSA-endorsed courses as well as monthly educational webinars and a subscription to the FitPro digital magazine.

50% off 3-month subscription

Manage your roster or find new talent with CoverMe’s Venue app; allowing fitness venues to find relevant, local, certified and insured cover for classes, instantly.

Save on retail, days out, travel and more

Save money on everyday essentials with the Howden Sport Benefits rewards platform, with tailored discounts from groceries to electricals.

Your CPD Library

Accessed through your member dashboard, you’ll 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 eLearning

From certificates to bite-sized eBriefings, earn valuable CPD points with CIMSPA’s eLearning platform, SkillGate. Choose from a range of learning around transferable skills including interpersonal soft skill development and management skills as well as measurable hard skill knowledge.

Exclusive member webinars

Member exclusive webinars offer invaluable insight and practical takeaways to support your career journey. Alongside our CIMSPA specialists, there’s a mix of highly experienced sport and physical activity professionals offering their expert knowledge and opinions.

Complimentary learning

Choose from a range of learning opportunities offered by CIMSPA quality assured education partners that are free for you to access, spanning a range of topics.

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.
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.

*Only eligible membership categories.