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The 10th anniversary celebrations of REPs, and our public awareness campaign, have meant I’ve been doing a lot of speaking and writing about the Register. It’s been a good exercise in taking stock but it’s also helped inspire plans for the future of REPs.

REPs has done very well in the last 10 years - we have a re-registration rate of nearly 75 per cent, and according to our annual customer satisfaction survey we’re improving our service year-on-year.

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We also know that our membership represents about 65 per cent of fitness professionals working in the industry. By comparison the Register in Australia, which has been established for 20 years, has around 70 per cent penetration. But that’s not good enough for me – I want to see our figures go beyond that. I know that as a voluntary register it will be nigh on impossible for us to reach 100 per cent but there’s still room for growth.

When I became Registrar my ambition was for it to be unthinkable to hire anyone that wasn’t registered as registration is the only way to independently know an instructor is competent, adequately insured and abides by a Code of Ethical Conduct. I still stand by that, and am currently finalising a grown plan for the Register that sets out our ambitions and plans for the next three years.

This includes, among other things, a new-look website with online joining, rolling out activepassport to all of our members, making our administration process more efficient and increasing benefits for our members.

I look forward to sharing more of our plans with you over the coming months and hope you’ll find them inspiring.

Jean-Ann Marnoch, Registrar

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