Trainer Accreditation
A personal credential for the people who actually stand and deliver. Trainer accreditation belongs to you — not to a platform, an agency or an employer.
What is trainer accreditation?
Trainer accreditation is a personal credential assessing an individual practitioner’s subject expertise, delivery capability, professional conduct and own CPD. It is issued in the trainer’s own name, listed on the public register, and belongs to them rather than to any employer, agency or platform.
Who it's for
Freelance trainers, coaches, facilitators, consultants and speakers who work across multiple clients and want one recognised way to demonstrate their credibility. If you deliver learning under other people's brands, trainer accreditation is the piece of the reputation that stays yours.
What we assess
- Subject expertise — qualifications, experience and evidence of currency in your field
- Delivery capability — how you design sessions and handle real learners
- Professional conduct — references and a commitment to our code of practice
- Your own CPD — accredited trainers keep learning too
What you receive
- A personal accreditation number and register listing under your own name
- The Accredo Accredited Trainer mark for your profile, proposals and slides
- A digital credential clients can verify in seconds
- Annual renewal that keeps the credential meaningful
Trainer or provider — or both?
The distinction is simple: provider accreditation belongs to an organisation; trainer accreditation belongs to a person. Many independents hold both — a provider registration for the business they invoice through, and a personal trainer credential for the work they deliver. If you are unsure which route fits, ask us and we will map it out for your situation.
Questions people ask about this
Can freelance trainers and coaches be CPD accredited?
Yes. Trainer accreditation is a personal credential assessing subject expertise, delivery capability, professional conduct and the trainer's own CPD. It belongs to the individual rather than to any employer, agency or platform, and travels with them from client to client.
What is an accredited CPD provider?
An accredited CPD provider is an organisation whose credentials, subject expertise and learning design processes have been independently assessed and listed on a public register. Provider status is the gateway to submitting individual activities — it does not, by itself, accredit everything the organisation produces.
What providers say
As a freelancer I deliver under other people's brands constantly. The trainer credential is the one piece of my reputation that stays mine.
Placeholder Name
Independent Trainer, Freelance
India
The assessment feedback was the useful part. Our first submission came back with three specific points about learning objectives, and fixing them made the course genuinely better — not just accreditable.
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Head of Learning, Placeholder Training Ltd
United Kingdom
We accredit around forty courses a year. Every one gets read by a person, and we can point clients at a register entry rather than asking them to take our word for it.
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Managing Director, Placeholder Academy
United Arab Emirates
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