Association for Project Management

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The Association for Project Management
Company typeProfessional organization
Founded1972 [1] [2]
HeadquartersRegent Park, Summerleys Road,
Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire
,
United Kingdom
Key people
  • Sue Kershaw, president
  • Adam Boddison, CEO
MembersOver 40,000 members and more than 400 corporate partners
Website https://www.apm.org.uk

The Association for Project Management is a British professional organisation for project and programme management. It received a Royal Charter in 2017, and is a registered charity. [3] It has over 37,500 individual and 550 corporate members, and is the largest professional body of its kind in the United Kingdom. [4] The head office is in Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire. [3] It is the certification body in the United Kingdom for the International Project Management Association. [5]

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History

The association was founded in 1972 as the UK branch of INTERNET, now the International Project Management Association. Weaver (2007) recalled, that:

"The UK branch of INTERNET (now the APM), was originated by the ‘pioneering seven’ whose meeting at an INTERNET (later IPMA) expert seminar in Zurich in 1971 inspired them to start a UK branch, which held its first meeting in London in May 1972. The first executive meeting on INTERNET(UK) was held in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel, Stockholm on 13 May 1972 during the 3rd annual world congress of INTERNET. Jack Grimshaw was the original chairman, others in the founding group included Dr Jim Gordon and Dennis Gower. Annual membership fees were set at £1, and within a month membership had reached 78 (PMI at the time were charging £7). [6]

With the emergence of the internet in the 1990s, the global project management association INTERNET was renamed International Project Management Association (IPMA) and the UK Branch Association for Project Management (APM). [6]

It received its Royal Charter on 6 January 2017. [7] [8]

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Chair of Trustees

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