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The CPD Register Certification Body

As a Certification Body, The CPD Register assesses CPD Accreditation Organisations against our published Conditions of Recognition and Conditions of Certification.

The organisations shown as Certified below have completed that assessment. They have been formally identified, have provided evidence to The CPD Register, and have met each of our certification conditions. Details of what certification assesses are set out in our Conditions of Certification.

If you are a CPD training provider or a CPD consumer, a Certified organisation is one that has been assessed and certified by The CPD Register against those published conditions.

Certified Organisations

These organisations have completed our certification assessment against our published Conditions of Certification.

Certified by The CPD Register

The CPD Group Limited

Overview

The CPD Group have provided CPD accreditation services since 2017 and were assessed and certified by The CPD Register. They provide their accreditation service through a bespoke online accreditation platform.

Their assessment frameworks are published and set out how they assess CPD, and their process supports CPD providers through accreditation.
They accredit CPD delivered in a range of formats, including classroom training, online training, webinars, workshops, publications, podcasts, conferences, events, and accreditation for trainers, coaches and employers.

The CPD Group publish their pricing, so prospective CPD providers can see the costs involved before engaging, and they offer a number of contact methods for client support.

The CPD Group met each of our certification conditions at assessment. Details of what certification assesses are set out in our Conditions of Certification.

Why this organisation is Certified

Certified and recognised by The CPD Register

Assessed against our published certification conditions

Certification held since 2025

Registered Organisations

These organisations have applied to The CPD Register and passed our Registration assessment. We have verified the identity of the people operating them, and confirmed the transparency and advertising standards set out in our Conditions of Registration.

Registration is not Certification. It confirms who operates an organisation, what it publishes, and that its advertising meets our conditions — it does not evaluate the quality of an organisation's accreditation framework. Each Registered organisation carries a registration number and can be verified below.

Registered organisation entries appear here once the scheme is live.

Our CPD Accreditation Organisation Directory

About this Directory

The CPD Register compiles this Directory from publicly available information to give CPD training providers and consumers a clear, sourced overview of organisations offering CPD accreditation in the UK. Every observation is drawn from public sources — such as an organisation's own website, Companies House, or the ICO register — and is dated.

Inclusion in the Directory is not a criticism, and the absence of Registration or Certification is not a finding that an organisation's service is poor — many organisations have simply not applied. We record what we can observe from public sources; you decide what matters for your needs. Any organisation that believes an entry is inaccurate can ask us to correct it through our Listing Policy.

There are many organisations that accredit CPD training courses and activities. The Directory below lists those operating in the sector, compiled by The CPD Register from public sources.

The organisations in our Directory have not applied for, or have not yet achieved, Registration or Certification with The CPD Register. This is a factual statement about their status with us, not an assessment of their service.

As part of our role as a Certification Body, we review each Directory organisation every three months, looking at the public information available for each and listing them below in an easy-to-review format.

For each organisation in our Directory, you can review what we observed from public sources, assessed against our published Criterion. Click 'View Details' to see further information for each organisation.

Where possible we suggest choosing a Certified or Registered CPD Accreditation Organisation, and in every case carrying out your own due diligence to decide what best fits your training company and its needs.

If your organisation is listed in the Directory, you can apply to become Registered or Certified with The CPD Register. Find out how on our CPD Accreditation Providers page.

CPD Certification & Recognition
103 of 103 Directory organisations
A 6 organisations
B 3 organisations
C 35 organisations
E 2 organisations
F 1 organisation
G 1 organisation
H 1 organisation
I 8 organisations
L 1 organisation
M 1 organisation
N 3 organisations
O 2 organisations
P 3 organisations
Q 1 organisation
R 1 organisation
S 6 organisations
T 23 organisations
U 1 organisation
V 2 organisations
W 1 organisation
Y 1 organisation

How we assess CPD Accreditation Organisations

The criteria below are what we assess when we review an organisation for our Directory. Each finding is drawn from public sources and dated, and each is recorded against one of these criteria.

These criteria reflect what we consider good practice for a modern CPD Accreditation Organisation. They are our own published standards, not statutory requirements, and an organisation that does not meet one or more of them is not necessarily providing a poor service. Each point is one factor among many, and it is for you to weigh them for your own needs.

Our full methodology, including the reasoning behind each criterion and the statutory frameworks some of them reference, is published on our Methodology page.

A. Identity and accountability

1. Commercial identification

Whether the legal entity and the people behind the organisation can be identified. If a dispute arises, being able to identify who you contracted with is fundamental to any remedy.

2. Contactability

Whether the organisation publishes an address at which correspondence can reliably be served (not only a PO Box), a telephone number answered during business hours, and a monitored email address.

3. Companies House status

For UK registered companies, whether the entity is active, dormant, in liquidation or dissolved. A dissolved company no longer exists as a legal entity and cannot issue accreditations carrying contractual standing.

4. Consistency of filings with advertised activity

Whether a company's Companies House filings are consistent with the services advertised on its website — for example, whether dormant accounts have been filed while accreditation services continue to be offered.

5. Data protection registration

Whether the organisation holds a current registration with the Information Commissioner's Office, where one is required. Organisations established overseas may instead be registered under their own country's data protection regime.

B. Transparency

6. Published assessment framework

Whether the organisation publishes the actual criteria or framework it assesses against, rather than referring only to unspecified 'standards'. Accreditation without published criteria is an assertion whose basis cannot be checked.

7. Pricing transparency

Whether the cost of accreditation services is published, so that training providers can assess affordability and compare organisations before entering a sales process.

8. Terms and conditions

Whether terms governing the accreditation service are published and accessible, covering matters such as duration, renewal, withdrawal, logo use, intellectual property and refunds.

9. Website status and transparency

Whether the organisation's website is reachable and serving current content, and whether it is secure and publishes a privacy policy. Where a website is unreachable, redirecting or serving only a holding page, we record that — it is often the first public signal that an organisation has ceased to operate.

C. Accreditation practice

10. Individual course assessment

Whether each course or activity is assessed individually against the published framework, rather than accreditation being granted across a provider's whole portfolio on the basis of its general standing.

11. Verifiability of accredited activities

Whether accredited courses carry a unique accreditation number and can be checked against a published list, so that a consumer can confirm a specific course is accredited and in date.

12. Review and renewal

Whether accredited content is reviewed on a defined cycle, so that accreditations reflect current standards rather than a historic assessment.

D. Independence

An accreditation organisation's value rests on the independence of its judgement. Commercial relationships do not automatically compromise independence, and many legitimate bodies operate them. What we record is the factual position and whether it is disclosed.

13. Sale of training courses or materials

Whether the organisation also sells its own training courses or materials alongside accrediting those of others, and how it describes the relationship between the two activities.

14. Commercial relationships with third parties

Whether the organisation has affiliate, referral or sponsorship arrangements with third-party service providers, and whether these are disclosed on its website. Such arrangements are lawful and common; the absence of disclosure is what we record.

15. Ownership and control relationships

Whether the organisation shares ownership, directorship or control with a training provider it accredits, or with another entity whose commercial interests are materially aligned. We identify these through Companies House records and link to the supporting entries.

E. Regulatory record

16. Regulatory rulings and enforcement records

Whether a regulator or enforcement body — such as the Advertising Standards Authority, the Information Commissioner's Office, Trading Standards or the Competition and Markets Authority — has published a formal ruling or enforcement action against the organisation. We link to the regulator's own published decision and do not characterise or summarise it.

Contextual information

Alongside the criteria above, we record information that helps put an organisation in context but that we do not assess, because it measures scale or scope rather than conduct: the number of accredited providers an organisation publishes, the sectors it covers, and whether it offers a live chat facility. A larger or broader organisation is not necessarily a better one, and a specialist organisation may suit a particular field well.

Find out how organisations are listed in our Directory, what we record, and how to request a correction.

Directory Listing Policy