The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) is the professional body for PR

Public relations

Public relations is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc....

 practitioners in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. Founded in February 1948 as the Institute of Public Relations, by 2009 it had grown to over 9000 members involved in all aspects of the public relations industry, and is the largest body of its type in Europe.

The CIPR advances the PR industry in the UK by making its members accountable through a code of conduct, developing policies for the PR industry, representing its members, and raising standards through education and training.

During its 60th anniversary year, its President was Elisabeth Lewis-Jones

Elisabeth Lewis-Jones

Elisabeth Lewis-Jones was the 2008 President of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations . During her tenure as President, she oversaw the 60th anniversary celebrations of the CIPR and acted as spokesman for the industry and the Institute in both national media and industry...

. The current President is BBC communications chief, Paul Mylrea.

Membership

The organisation operates a number of membership grades:

• Affiliate

• Associate ACIPR

• Member MCIPR

• Fellow FCIPR

• Student

• Global Affiliate

Sectoral groups

The Institute operates a number of sectoral industry groups including a public affairs

Public administration

Public Administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" its "fundamental goal.....

 group, plus 14 regional groups:

• Construction and Property
• Corporate and Financial
• Education and Skills
• Fifth Estate - voluntary sector
• Public Affairs (CIPR PA)
• Health and Medical
• CIPR Inside - (for internal communications
  Internal communications
  Internal communications is the function responsible for effective communication among participants within an organization.A relatively young profession, IC draws on the theory and practice of related professions, not least journalism, knowledge management, public relations, media relations,...
  
   professionals)
• CIPR International
• Local Public Services
• Marketing Communications
• Science, Technology Group, Engineering and Mathematics Group (STEM)

Governance

As a chartered society the CIPR is ultimately governed by the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and its members agree to abide and uphold a strict code of conduct thereby affirming their commitment to operate ethically, with integrity and transparency.

Education

The CIPR provides a number of qualifications for PR professionals, up to the level of the CIPR Diploma, a Master's level postgraduate qualification.

Students undertaking the Diploma examine case studies and practical PR examples to analyse strategic communications in action, and learn to develop their PR planning and integrated communications management skills.