Institute of Parking Professionals

Mission/Scope

The Institute's role will be to support and develop individual professionals and practitioners in parking and related activities, to raise their standing, represent their views and facilitate, develop and promote knowledge, career development, understanding and best practice in parking and related areas. It will provide a focus for the exchange of views of those engaged in the industry and will benefit society by raising standards.

Aims

The Institute aims to:

- Act as the voice for the individual parking professional / practitioner.
- Facilitate, develop and promote best practice in parking and related areas.
- Encourage and facilitate education and training and career development/advancement.
- Support and encourage all members and particularly younger members to become involved in debate / discussion and research.
- Disseminate information related to parking to members, in order to keep them up to date with new developments and new thinking.
- Raise standards in the industry.
- Improve the status of the individual in parking and through them the Industry itself, both internally and externally.
- Support the work of the BPA.

Structure

The Institute will be formed as a division within the BPA, although may in time become a separate company, limited by guarantee and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Association. A Management Board will be appointed by members to run the Institute with the Chairman, a member of the BPA Board. In time the Board may develop other specialist groups as it thinks fit.

Membership

Membership to be open to all individual parking professionals / practitioners / students and to those with an interest in related matters whose organisations are members of the BPA. Individuals from non member organisations will not be admitted in the early years but the longer term aim will be to open the institute up to all individuals within the parking and related Industry.