Established in 1999 in direct response to the proposed regulation of the private recruitment industry, The Forum of Professional Recruiters (FPR) is a not for profit trade association of leading recruitment firms operating across the UK’s professional staffing sector.

Our members meet quarterly to discuss issues common to all professional recruitment companies, ranging from Employment Regulations and Terms of Business to Payroll Systems and Recruitment Software. Together we work to represent the interests of our sector by lobbying at a political level, in order to drive the recruitment sector forward. 

Membership ensures the professional recruitment industry has an ever-stronger voice.  Membership has more than doubled in the last 2 years and includes Joslin Rowe Associates, Badenoch & Clark, Poolia, Robert Walters Associates, Contact Recruitment, Hydrogen Group, Barclay Simpson, Charity People, Elements Group, FSS, Goodman Masson, Hudson, IPS Group, LMA/Empresaria, Marks Sattin, Nigel Lynn Associates, Robert Half, RK Group, Venn Group, Walker Dendle and Witan Jardine.

Why join the FPR?

The following are just some of the benefits enjoyed by our members:    

  • Access to a combined public affairs programme

  • Practical interpretation of current and future legislative change

  • Sharing costs/scale benefits

  • Exchange of information

  • Access to your industry peer group

  • Encouraging best practice in the market, working towards a quality standard for members

  • Free workshops and reduced rates with our preferred provider of legal services, Tarlo Lyons

  • Access to specialist recruitment sector team at Deloittes

  • Specialist meetings for your in-house HR Directors, Finance Directors and Marketing Directors

  • Benefit from promoting Recruitment as a profession

  • Viable alternative to REC if you operate in professional recruitment sector

  • Membership can be seen as an accreditation for your clients

  • Participation in, and information from, the FPR index

For more information on the work we do and our nominal fee structure, please call our Chairman, Tara Ricks on 020 7786 6495 or our Secretary, Leslie Walters on 020 8349 4040