Your membership fees for the year 2025-26

Summer at UKCP is the time when we make our financial plans for the coming membership year. This includes setting the membership fee. This year, there will be a modest inflationary increase of 4% for 2025‐26.

When we set our fees, our aim is to keep any increase as low as possible – we know this is in members' interests and we are mindful of the effect that any increase will have not only on our members but also on clients.

The 4% increase to fees ensures we can maintain our current level of service and continue to invest in new initiatives to benefit our members and the wider public. As a registered charity, we operate on a not-for-profit basis, and every pound of your membership fee is spent on supporting our charitable objects.

Why the increase?

Like many organisations, UKCP faces increased costs due to inflation. When setting our annual budgets, we must consider a range of factors:

• ongoing commitments, such as indemnity insurance premiums and Professional Standards Authority (PSA) fees
• rising operational costs, including national insurance contributions and inflationary pressures across staffing, technology and services
• strategic planning, including multi-year projects and new initiatives.

Last year, we increased membership fees by 2%, but inflation was consistently above this level. We worked hard to absorb significant cost increases and made long-term cost savings, such as relocating to a more cost-effective office space. But we must be realistic about rising costs and ensure that our organisation is sustainable.

What your membership supports

The majority of UKCP's income comes from membership fees. These funds are vital to delivering the three-year strategy that members helped shape and ensuring that our registrants continue to meet the highest standards of education and practice.

Over the past year, membership fees have helped us to:

• re-establish the UKCP conference, which returned in November 2024 and brought members together to explore key issues facing psychotherapy in a changing world. We look forward to welcoming you to our next conference in spring 2026 (7‐8 May)
• create two designated funds: one for projects that support innovation and one to support new initiatives for member engagement to enhance your experience and professional development
• deliver an events programme, including a series of webinars on boundaries led by our Ethics Committee
• support the work of key working groups, including the statutory regulation working group and the constitution working group, whose recommendations will shape our future direction
• strengthen our advocacy work, ensuring the voice of psychotherapy is heard in policy discussions including at the parliamentary launch of a report highlighting the urgent need to improve support for people with severe and complex mental health needs
• support members, including faster response times to emails and calls, engagement on key topics, such as statutory regulation, and our newly designed New Psychotherapist magazine
• increase the profile of psychotherapy and UKCP in the media, including raising awareness of high-quality psychotherapy.

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Looking ahead

We've spent the first year of our three-year strategy laying the groundwork for meaningful progress: gathering data; reviewing the landscape for charities, the psychotherapy profession and membership organisations; and identifying where change is needed.

In the coming year and beyond, we are excited to introduce and make progress on:

• the work of our statutory regulation and constitutional working groups
• our public awareness campaigns, promoting the value of psychotherapy to diverse communities
• our EDI-BIIDE* strategy to ensure UKCP is a welcoming and representative organisation
• exploring and developing new income-generating initiatives.

To read more about the work of UKCP, please see our 2024-2027 strategy, Psychotherapy in a changing world, and our annual report and accounts.