CPD is simply a record of activities that keeps you current and relevant to maintain your Chartered status. Credits are awarded for different activities to make up your CPD record.

Continuing Professional Development is the way in which IFM members maintain, improve and broaden their knowledge and skills, and develop their personal qualities.

Such activities demonstrate commitment to professional competence and development, and the maintenance of high standards.

Why CPD?
One of the Institute’s main roles, in common with most other professional bodies, is to develop, promote, monitor and control the quality and standards of practice of its membership.
As well as setting educational standards for the relevant professional qualifications, the Institute has an obligation to ensure that its members are up to date, and developing on a continuous basis. The Institute believes that it can best satisfy that obligation with a scheme of CPD.

The Basis for the Scheme
Full professional members of the Institute (i.e. Registered Members and Fellows) are encouraged to follow a programme of CPD. All Institute members who are Chartered Environmentalists, or wish to become so will need to follow a programme of CPD.