Welcome

I know people talk about January being a prime time for exercising but I’m sure, like me, for most people in the

fitness industry September always feels like a new year. Perhaps it’s post summer vigour, Leisure Industry Week or even a hang-over from school days but for me it always seems like a good time to take stock of what’s been happening over the previous 12 months.

We’ve been working hard this year on increasing awareness of REPs both amongst the health sector and the public. We’ve produced REPs plaques and boards for clubs and centres to display and have distributed pin badges to our members and are working on other marketing materials.

THE REGISTER OF EXERCISE PROFESSIONALS

Third floor, 8-10 Crown Hill, Croydon, Surrey CR0 1RZ Telephone 020 8686 6464 www.exerciseregister.org

Registrar Jean-Ann Marnoch Registration Manager Alison Frater alison@exerciseregister.org Systems manager Rob McGregor robbie@exerciseregister.org CPD Compliance Manager Dottie Calderwood cpd@exerciseregister.org

QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING STANDARDS SkillsActive Castlewood House, New Oxford St London WC1A 1PX Telephone 020 7632 2000

Technical Unit skills@skillsactive.com

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DESIGN & PRODUCTION Debbie Asher debbie@sportex.net

PUBLISHED BY sportEX (Centor Publishing Ltd) Contact: Tor Davies tor@sportex.net Telephone: 0845 652 1906 Website: www.sportex.net

REPs is now represented on the FIA Exercise Referral Steering Group and FIA Joint consultative forum (a body of six representatives from the fitness industry and representatives from six Royal Medical Colleges) to help bring our sectors closer together in a common bid to improve the nation’s health. We were also involved in the British Heart Foundation Exercise Referral Tool Kit working group ensuring health practitioners know why it is advisable to only refer patients to REPs registered instructors.

Following our presence at the Royal College of Nurses Congress (including exercise classes for delegates!) we’ve now been invited to attend the conferences of both the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists and the British Heart Foundation.

We will, of course, continue to raise standards and professionalise the industry, build the profile and commitment to REPs across the health, exercise and fitness sectors, improve the value of REPs membership and help our members achieve the professional status they so deserve and desire.

Jean-Ann Marnoch, Registrar

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