activepassport™ is a verified online record of an individual’s training, volunteering, CPD, qualifications, and achievements. Unlike a standard CV, the qualifications and experience have been validated, ensuring candidates possess the right skills, training, and experience.

activepassport is the easy way to assess prospective employees, ensure current staff have relevant, up-to-date training and stay in touch with those who have worked for you.

Key benefits to training providers include:

• Provide learners with verified online evidence of training they have completed with you
• Improve efficiency by taking your administration online
• Save staff time and money by requesting Apprenticeship certificates through learners' activepassports
• Access a simple overview of your client’s skills, qualifications and competencies
• Identify missing mandatory CPD and compliance requirements
• Offer clients a powerful tool for maintaining their own records
• Offer fitness clients a tailored REPs activepassport with their professional registration**

 Over 20,000 people in the UK currently have an activepassport™, and more than 40 UK sport and leisure CEOs representing 70% of the workforce have now signed a skills protocol, committing they will work towards their employees holding and maintaining an activepassport™ as standard.

Get activepassport for your business now!

Individuals can puchase activepassport for £9.95 on our website. However, training providers can access a substantial discount by bulk purchasing activepassports for their learners.  

For further information on activepassport and how it can support your business, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

* All prices exclude VAT.
** REPs registration has a separate cost.  

activepassport™ is a verified online record of an individual’s training, volunteering, CPD, qualifications, and achievements. Unlike a standard CV, the qualifications and experience have been validated, ensuring candidates possess the right skills, training, and experience.

activepassport is the easy way to assess prospective employees, ensure current staff have relevant, up-to-date training and stay in touch with those who have worked for you.

Key benefits to employers include:

• Verify the training your current staff have received and easily monitor when qualifications expire
• Protect yourself against litigation by ensuring you are on top of training programmes and other professional obligations
• Upload resources and documents for your linked activepassport users
• Post notifications on activepassport to keep your linked community informed of updates
• Manage staff meetings and internal events online
• Ensure compliance to official job role requirements, helping you match candidates to jobs quickly and efficiently
• Verify the skills and qualifications of potential employees

Over 20,000 people in the UK currently have an activepassport™, and more than 40 UK sport and leisure CEOs representing 70% of the workforce have now signed a skills protocol, committing they will work towards their employees holding and maintaining an activepassport™ as standard. 

Get activepassport for your business now!

 Individuals can puchase activepassport for £9.95, allowing them to show employers like you what they have already achieved.

However, as an employer-led organisation, SkillsActive aims to support businesses with ensuring their staff have the most up-to-date skills and training. Therefore, employers can access free and discounted activepassports as part SkillsActive's employer membership.

• Small organisations (2-19 employees):  £50* per year, including 2 free activepassports and up to 55% off additional credits  
  
• Medium organisations (20-249 employees): £100* per year, including 10 free activepassports and up to 55% off additional credits  
  
• Large organisations (250+ employees): £450* per year, including 50 free activepassports and up to 55% off** additional credits 
  

For more information on membership and to sign up email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For further information on activepassport or to try a free demo, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Additional options

Employers can choose to become a partner account, offering option for advanced reporting and the ability to conduct an online skills analysis of staff. There is also the potential to develop your activepassport to integrate with existing HR systems.

These addditonal options will incur extra charges. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  for further information.  

* All prices exclude VAT.
** Size of discount dependent on amount of activepassports purchased

Four people received support from the Nancy Ovens Bursary in 2006:

Laura Harvey

A volunteer coach with Birmingham City Ladies FC, Laura completed her UEFA A coaching licence.

Steve Jones

An English Volleyball Association coach education and development officer, and England women’s performance coach, who undertook a series of visits to Italy where he worked with a volleyball club in Perugia and development centres in the region, also visiting CONI – the Italian Olympic Association.

Roger Pickering

A volunteer rugby league coach, Roger took a sabbatical from his day job to coach on a full-time voluntary basis as part of the Vale Royal School Sports Partnership in Cheshire. Roger went on leave his job to work full time in developing sport throughout schools in the region.

Glenn Smith

A swimming coach and development officer at Mansfield City Council, Glenn undertook a programme of coaching sessions with the head performance swimming coach at Loughborough University. Glenn has since gained a number of awards, and as part of Rebecca Adlington's coaching team was honoured with the Coaching Chain Award in 2008.

Read more about the 2006 Nancy Ovens Bursary award winners

Learning Resources

The SkillsActive Group can offer you books, revision guides, teaching resources and more…visit our online shop now to find the right resources for you

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Workforce development tools

The workforce is the most important thing that every business counts on to help them be successful. Whether they are a large multinational or a small, voluntary organisation, the people are what make it work.

Everyone responsible for a paid or volunteer workforce will benefit from developing a plan, that gets the most from their people. And, combines the needs and priorities of the business with the personal development of staff and volunteers.

A workforce development plan is a great tool in assisting an organisation to focus it's priorities and identify funding and solutions for the development, education and training of their workforce.

SkillsActive has developed tools and resources for playwork and sport and recreation, that will allow organisations to understand more about what this means to them and how they can complete a plan. 

A guide to successful workforce development planning in playwork

The first interactive CD toolkit to help playwork employers develop their employees in the Playwork sector, download the order form.

The CD Toolkit will:

• Provide an overview of the importance of workforce development
• Take you through the workforce development planning process in six simple stages
• Provide you with 13 templates which are all downloadable and can be adapted to your own individual organisation's needs
• Take you through the process of designing job descriptions which,are mapped to the national occupational standards
• Allow you to develop a complete workforce development plan that will help you to build the skills and knowledge of your Ppayworkers and increase retention of staff
• Support you in increasing your chances of accessing public funding for education, training and development
• Improve the quality of the play opportunities you provide for children and young people.

To order a CD-rom through us at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

To discuss workforce development and any further assistance that may be available for your organisation locally or nationally contact Camilla Plamer on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or on 0121 602 5649

Successful workforce development planning – a guide for sport and recreation

The CD-Rom provides:

• An overview of workforce development
• What workforce development can do for your organisation
• A simple process with templates and guidance to help you through
• Links to other organisations that can provide assistance
• A link to a diagnostic tool for basic skills

This CD-Rom toolkit is for members only. Membership of SkillsActive is available to organisations from just £25. 

Find out more about membership.

Successful Workforce Development Planning – the workshop

The practical, interactive workshop 'Making the most of your people...workforce development planning', run in association with runningsports, also provides the CD-Rom guide as a FREE resource to every candidate. 

The workshop covers:

• What workforce development is
• Why it is worth it
• How to do it
• How to create an action plan to put it into practice

To book your place contact Margaret Nolan at: 

• This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   or on 0207 404 2224

To discuss workforce development  and any further assistance that may be available for your organisation locally or nationally contact us.

Active jobs

Active Jobs is our online jobs board for advertising vacancies.

It offers you the opportunity to advertise current job vacancies online on our website, which is accessed by over five thousand people a week. 

The packages we have available are a cost effective way to reach these key people, who may be the right fit for your organisation.  

To get your advertisement online complete and submit the vacancy application form to our recruitment team.

For further information contact us on 0207 632 2000 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ActiveJobs terms and conditions

View current job opportunities in sport and active leisure here.

Our consultants have a lot of experience of working with local authorities, small businesses and organisations in the voluntary sector supporting the development of workforce strategies. 

We have developed toolkits that can be accessed by members free of charge here (http://www.skillsactive.com/playwork/workforce_development/tool) , but if you’d like someone to provide additional support, fill out our enquiry form or contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  or on 0207 632 2000.

Marie Sefton

Consultancy: Governance, Leadership, Business Coaching

 Marie has over 13 years experience in Learning & Development and a proven track record of establishing learning & development functions in organisations. This is achieved by providing leadership programmes, installing learning centres, creating ‘soft skill’ programmes with training needs analysis, including designing and delivering training courses.

Her aim is to partner with organisations and companies to unlock the potential of the people. To develop individuals and teams, Marie introduces effective people development solutions.

 Before founding ‘Truly Inspired’, Marie worked as the Learning & Development Manager for the Rugby Football Union. She has held similar roles in the private sector for HBOS and Prudential and also worked in various sectors including Local Govt., Retail and for training providers.

 As a Trainer Marie has designed and delivered many ‘soft skill’ programmes including:

• customer service
• motivation and assertiveness
• management development
• team working
• negotiation and influencing
• self awareness and emotional intelligence
• change management and appraisals
• communication skills

 As a ‘People Development’ Consultant she has :

• established retail training programmes to motivate staff
• introduced e-learning
• undertaken TNA’s and ONA’s

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