CPD Terms and conditions

Personal and Professional Criteria

To be eligible for funding, you must meet the following criteria:

Application to be received by EMD UK at least 7 workings days before your course start date. Applications sent after this time will not be accepted.
The course you are applying for must start within the same 6 months of the funding period (see other conditions for more information)

• Be actively teaching in England within 1 month of completing your training as per the full terms and conditions
• Be able to demonstrate how the training will increase participation or improve the retention of current class participants within the group exercise industry.
• If applying for funding to complete Continuous Professional Development (CPD) training, you must hold one of the following CIMSPA Accredited qualifications:
  • Level 2 Fitness Instructing
  • Level 2 Group Training to Music
  • Level 2 Group Training
  • Level 2 (DFQ) Exercise, Movement and Dance
  • Level 3 Personal Trainer
  • Level 3 Yoga
  • Level 3 Pilates qualification.
• You must upload a copy of your certificate as part of the application process.

You can apply for 65% of funding towards group exercise short courses and qualifications. The training must be provided by one of our Delivery Partners and be endorsed by us.

Training Criteria

Application for funding must:

• Be in a recognised fitness style and offered by one of our Delivery Partners.
• Funding is offered on a first come first serve basis.
• Be endorsed by EMD UK.
• Be used for teaching or instructing purposes, not activities such as tutoring, quality assurance or mentoring, or Level 2 or Level 3 qualifications offered by EMD UK.

After completing your training and to be able to become a member of EMD UK you must agree that:

• You will adhere to industry regulations on the use of music in public places (eg PPL & PRS).
• You will adhere to government guidance issued with regards group exercise.
• You will hold the relevant professional insurance for your activities and provide us with evidence of such insurance
• If you are working with children, young people, and/or vulnerable adults on a regular, unsupervised basis (once a month or more), you possess an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Scheme Check carried out within the last 2 years.
• You will hold a valid First Aid Certificate dated within the last 2 years or have adequate first aid cover in place where you teach
• You will abide by EMD UK’s Code of Conduct.

Other Conditions

• There is a limit of two funded CPDs per person (one application in any 12-month period)
• You can only apply for funding towards one course per application.
• The course you are applying for must start within the same 6 months of the funding period (see other conditions for more information)
• Funding will be open in 6-monthly blocks. Once the funding has been allocated during that funding period, it will be closed until the next 6-month block reopens
• The opening submission date for funding applications is April 2024

EMD UK reserve the right to amend the eligibility Terms and Conditions at any point without prior notice. Funding is subject to availability.

EMD UK product/service/enquiry privacy policy

EMD UK is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy sets out how we use and protect any information that you give us.

Your personal data

EMD UK store and process the personal data that you provide in order to deliver the product/service /enquiry that you have signed up to/have enquired about.
EMD UK collect two pieces of specialist category data from you; ethnicity and disability. This, along with your other personal data, may be used to create anonymised statistics to measure whether there is a fair representation of participants and instructors involved in group exercise when compared to population averages. In addition, if you are participating in physical activity we may collect data in relation to your health. We do so in order to ensure that as a participant you are kept informed and safe. If you contact us, by phone, email or letter, we may keep a record of that correspondence. We may also ask you to complete surveys that EMD UK use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
EMD UK will continue to contact you in relation to the product/service/enquiry you have signed up to/made until such as time as you ask for your account to be deleted/details to be erased. You will have the option to opt out of these communications at any time. EMD UK will never hold your personal details on record for more than 3 years without giving you the ability to ask for them to be erased. EMD UK will store any personal data linked to financial records for a 6-year period. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have the right to inspect financial information relating to the previous 6 years and require all trading entities to keep financial records for this length of time.
In some cases, EMD UK will need to share your personal data with partners in order for the product/service that you have chosen to utilise to be delivered. In all cases personal data will only be shared with partners in relation to the product/service that you have chosen to utilise. Partners will not have permission to share or utilise your personal data for anything else. In addition, EMD UK may share your personal data If we are under duty to disclose or share it to comply with legal obligation or to protect the rights or safety of EMD UK, our members, or others.
All data you provide to us is stored on secure servers and/or locked away. Data may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. We will do our best to protect your personal data but cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. We do not store financial details.
You may request details of personal data which we hold about you. ‘EMD UK’ is a trading name of Exercise Movement and Dance Partnership Ltd who are the data controllers and can be contacted on 01403 266000 or hello@emduk.org. You will be given the option to ‘unsubscribe’ from any newsletters/bulk communications that you receive. You can raise a concern about our information rights practices here www.ico.org.uk/concerns or by calling 03031231113.
EMD UK may change this privacy information from time to time. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Additional Consent

If you have opted to give additional consent you are agreeing that EMD UK can send you updates about other group exercise opportunities that are not directly related to the product/service/enquiry that you have made.
Your information will be stored and used to contact you up until the time that you ask EMD UK to stop doing so. This is unless required for ongoing HMRC compliance.
You can change your preferences at any time by contacting hello@emduk.org
EMD UK 01/11/2018