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Continuing Professional Development

BIGGA’s Mission Statement includes ‘BIGGA is dedicated to the continuing professional development of its members…’. The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Scheme run by BIGGA is free of charge to all Full, Associate and International Members.

The CPD Scheme has several benefits to you, it helps you:

• to keep track of your training achievements
• to adapt out dated skills
• to show your employer that you are a true professional
• to give you a means of showing prospective employers that you have continued to develop your education and training beyond the minimum level
• to update skills and knowledge on a regular basis
• to give you the skills to cope with change

You can gain CPD credits for attendance at a wide range of educational events, Harrogate Week and the BIGGA AGM as well as Section and Region events and AGM’s.

It is simple to join the scheme, just download an application form, complete and return it to the L&D Department. For the current CPD year you can claim for any events that you have attended since 1 July 2009. To claim points, you either sign a register of attendance at the event (if available) or send in a credit claim form with proof of your attendance (certificate or signature from the organiser).

A BIGGA Certificate of Continuing Professional Development will be awarded to those members who accumulate 10 CPD Credits annually from 1 July to 30 June.

Once you have been awarded five successive Certificates of Continuing Professional Development will receive a BIGGA Diploma of Continuing Professional Development.