On the 16th and 17th of July The College of Will Writing trialled two new courses, delivered by award-winning entrepreneur Paula Finch. These courses form part of a new series dedicated to business development and will be run again from Autumn onwards. I sat in on both days, not just to test the quality, although…
If you had to do any training to add knowledge to your business, which method would you prefer? Classroom based; or Distance learning. The Society has been training people to become estate planning practitioners (will writers) for over two decades now using both methods, and the classroom method has been the preferred choice by the…
In this the 25th anniversary year of the Society, the College of Will Writing, the academic arm of the Society is still exceeding all our expectations. Courses from 1 day to 4 days duration are all selling to capacity so far this year. In the November of 2013, the Society took the bold decision to…
Continuous Professional Development (CPD for short) is one of the Society’s 3 mandatory requirements. We expect that each year members complete a minimum of 16 structured hours, and 8 unstructured hours, totalling 24 for the year. Structured CPD is something that can be proved, usually by way of a certificate by attending a course for…
From the desk of the DG For the 6th consecutive year the January and February induction courses, SWWEPP Certificate Courses are oversubscribed, which is a great testament to the quality of members and potential members we are attracting. This is in addition to the Distance Learning Course we introduced in the early part of last…
SWW CPD. The SWW are finding that more and more members are making the most of their membership benefits and are responding well to the SWW’s attempts to strengthen self-regulation. As a mandatory requirement of membership practitioners are required to complete at least 24 hours training per year (known as CPD). This requirement…
When the Society of Will Writers opened its doors in April of 1994 it had a relatively simple objective – ‘To be a representative body whilst providing protection to the consumer’. 23 years on, the SWW has grown to become the largest organisation of its type providing a regulatory framework to over 1700 members. Every…
The online CPD has gone live. As you should already be aware, we have migrated to a new system hosted on the College of Will Writing website. If during the last 14 months you have done the free online CPD then you will have been registered for the new system. As such you should have…
