Association for Project Management


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. It has over 42,000 individual and more than 470 corporate members, and is the largest professional body of its kind in the United Kingdom. The head office is in Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire.

History

The association was founded in 1972 as the UK branch of INTERNET, now the International Project Management Association. Weaver recalled, that:
With the emergence of the Internet in the 1990s, the global project management association INTERNET was renamed International Project Management Association and the UK Branch Association for Project Management.
International Journal of Project Management is published in collaboration with the Association for Project Management and the International Project Management Association. The Journal was formerly co-owned by APM and Elsevier, but in an act of significant system generosity, APM gifted half of its shares to IPMA to support it with long-term revenue generation.
The Association for Project Management was formerly the certification body in the United Kingdom for the IPMA. However, from 1 March 2025, APM has operated independently alongside the IPMA, rather than as a Member Association and certification body.
It received its Royal Charter on 6 January 2017.

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