REPS NEWS Badges for members

All REPs’ members will be sent a badge, stamped with the current year, as part of their membership benefits.

Featuring the new REPs logo it’s hoped the badges will be worn by members to help them be easily identified as registered fitness professionals.

Registrar Jean-Ann Marnoch said: “We’ve wanted to provide our members with something like this for a long time and are delighted with the badges. This is just one of the strategies to improve public awareness of REPs’ instructors and the Register. This is an important step and one that we hope our members will embrace to ensure that our professional status is understood both in and outside the industry.”

1. REPs Badge This year-dated badge will be sent out annually to all members.

2. REPs Stamp Downloadable from the REPs’ website this Registered Exercise Professional stamp can by used by members on marketing materials to advertise their REPs’ membership. For full guidelines on how to use the stamp visit the members’ area of the REPs’ website www.exerciseregister.org

3. REPs CPD logo Used to denote the CPD points that can be earned by taking part in activities such as courses, online learning and conventions. All CPD points values are set by SkillsActive.

4. REPs level logo To be used by Awarding Bodies to show the level at which the qualification gives entry to the Register.

5. REPs new logo The modernised REPs logo showing our association with SkillsActive, the Sector Skills Council for Active Leisure and Wellbeing . This can be used by training providers and awarding bodies.

www.exerciseregister.org 05 WORKING IN FITNESS SURVEY

The team at the SkillsActive Research Unit has begun analysing the results of the 2009 Working in Fitness Survey. Respondents answered questions on remuneration packages, working practices, on-going professional development and attitudes to working within the industry as well as job satisfaction. Now in its fourth year the WIF survey is credited with providing an annual insight into the working practices of the industry and is valued by employers and employees alike.

For a full breakdown of the WIF findings see the next issue of the REPs Journal.

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