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

Our work is underpinned and informed by the collation of up to date labour market information and analysis.

Our research

Read our latest reports

Buy Working in Fitness Reports

Our research team provides high quality Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) on the Active Leisure, Learning and Well-being sector which highlights areas for future development in relation to workforce development.

SkillsActive’s research reports are available through downloads only and we generally do not keep a stock of hardcopy research reports.

Discover more about the work of our research team:

• Research approach
• How to commission research
• SIC and SOC codes explained
• Sector Skills Assessments
• Working in Fitness 2011

Playwork Joint Investment Programme

SkillsActive has successfully bid to the government’s Joint Investment Programme (JIP), releasing £230,000 over two years to match fund employers’ (in England) investment in the Level 3 Award in Transition to Playwork from early years.

In SkillsActive's Playwork People 4 survey over 55% of employers reported a lack of knowledge of the Playwork principles in their current staff while 44% of employees had no playwork specific qualification.  From experience, we know that many employers recruit staff with early years qualifications in order to meet Ofsted registration requirements, but find that they don’t follow the playwork approach to the work.  The JIP Working in the Community (Playwork) project aims to improve knowledge and understanding of the playwork principles and playwork theories for those who have qualified in early years.

The Level 3 Award in Transition to Playwork (from early years) is a short qualification comprising two units: Understand Aspects of Playwork Practice and Understand the Theories Underpinning Playwork Practice.  Learners must already have achieved a level 3 qualification in early years to register; for example, this could be an NVQ in Early Years, Care and Education or in Children’s Care, Learning and Development.  Please note that the new Working with Children and Young People Diploma is not valid as an entry qualification.

Employers will be expected to provide £229 which is 50% of the cost of the qualification and the Skills Funding Agency will match this with an additional £229. 

This programme, developed on behalf of the sector in, has earned much of its success through the support of employers.  However, the opportunity to benefit from this programme still exists for all employers in the sector, including those who originally expressed an interest but did not commit any learner details.

If you are interested in registering staff for this qualification, please complete the survey Click Here.

SkillsActive will be working with the SFA on the final stage of lead provider selection based on the SFA assessment and shortlisting of training providers.  The project will run from October 2011 until the end of July 2013.  You will be contacted when the programme’s training providers have been identified.

As more information becomes available we will post it to this site.

If you have an enquiry regarding this programme, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

h1>Personal Best in the West Midlands

In the West Midlands Personal Best is funded by the European Social Fund and coordinated by SkillsActive and the Skills Funding Agency as part of the 2012 Inspirations project.

The Programme is being offered by the following training providers:

• Wolverhampton College
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  Tel: 01902 821954
• Sport Structures
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Karl had a fantastic day in London and you can read Karl's incredible Personal Best story here.

Sport Structures and Seetec: a winning partnership

Please read the attached article telling the story of the successful work placements offered by national organisation Seetec for learners on the Sports Structures Personal Best programme.

Personal Best around the regions

Contact details and information about the Personal Best programme in the following regions can be found below:

• East
• East Midlands
• London
• North East
• North West
• South East
• South West
• Yorkshire and the Humber
• West Midlands

Or see this Google Map for your nearest provider:

View Or view the Personal Best providers in a larger map

Since Personal Best began in 2008 SkillsActive has developed a number of resources which are free to download and provide more information and guidance on becoming involved in the programme.

Check them out below:

• Personal Best story so far
• Personal Best briefing note for training providers (pdf) (pdf)
• Personal Best Regional Delivery Manual, Edition 2, Version 3 (pdf) (pdf)
• Personal Best London Tutor Pack (zip) (zip) (zip)
• Personal Best London Fact File (pdf) (pdf)
• Personal Best Scheme of Work (zip) (zip)
• App 1 Benefit guidelines (Version 2)
• App 2 Regional delivery
• App 3 The personal best programme
• App 4 Personal Best Assurance Template Part 1
• App 5 Personal Best Assurance Template Part 2
• App 6 Sample Tender Specification
• App 7 Sample Inspire Mark Application
• App 8 Glossary of terms

Events Keep up to date with Personal Best and London 2012 related events, as well as other sporting, and cultural events taking place across the country.

Tell us your story

Whether you are a learner, a training provider or a tutor please use the box below to tell us about your Personal Best experience. We want to hear as many stories as possible!

Personal Best learners database

As the Personal Best provider/advisor/tutor please complete this form on behalf of your Personal Best learners who applied to be a Games Maker at London 2012.