- Posted: 10 September 2018As industry leaders, YMCA Awards are delighted to announce that, as a registered End-Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO), we are now able to offer End-Point Assessment (EPA) for the Level 3 Leisure Duty Manager Standard. This is the first standard in our plan, with more to come over the coming...
- Posted: 23 August 2018We're getting in touch to let you know that we're withdrawing the YMCA Level 3 Award in Nutrition for Physical Activity (501/0118/3). We're replacing this qualification with the YMCA Level 3 Award in Nutrition to Support Physical Activity (603/3098/3), which is already available. We believe...
- Posted: 03 August 2018*/ E-NEWS Welcome to the August edition of YMCA Awards' newsletter! Fair pricing for all Earlier this week, we got in touch with main centre contacts to announce our new fair pricing strategy. We believe that some awarding organisations over-complicate qualification fees through...
- Posted: 01 August 2018YMCA Awards has launched the new YMCA Level 2 Certificate in Teaching Group Exercise to Music (Freestyle) - the first qualification in our new Group Exercise suite, mapped to the CIMSPA Core Group Exercise Instructor professional standard. The YMCA Level 2 Certificate in Teaching Group Exercise to...
- Posted: 01 August 2018*/ This year, we’re celebrating twenty years of awarding qualifications. We were the first awarding organisation in the fitness and active leisure sector and we’re not going anywhere. We believe that some awarding organisations over-complicate qualification pricing through inflated advertised...
- Posted: 05 April 2018Last week, YMCA Awards hosted the second in our series of Vanguard Group receptions in the Houses of Parliament and officially launched our brand new, CIMPSA endorsed, Level 2 Certificate in Gym Instructing, Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training and Level 3 Comined Diploma in Gym Instructing and...
- Posted: 28 February 2018YMCA Awards has become the first awarding organisation to achieve endorsement from the Chartered Institute of the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) having embraced the organisation’s new professional standards in three new gym instructor and personal training qualifications. Our...
- Posted: 27 November 2017YMCA Awards is one of the leading qualification providers in the fitness sector, having had years of delivering quality educational products that are used across the globe. Our success is based not only on the partnerships and relationships we form, but most of all, on our ability to listen and...
- Posted: 21 November 2017YMCA Awards and many of our partners have had enormous successes lobbying policy-makers, but what if we could combine our efforts and provide a platform whereby the industry’s highest performing providers and sector experts could speak as one? It was this question that prompted us to launch the...
- Posted: 13 October 2017Even small changes can make a big difference when it comes to enhancing the learner experience, and following key stakeholder feedback, we’ve made some significant improvements to the finer details of one of our top qualifications. As of 23rd October 2017: • Learners will no longer need to...