Promoting your RTPI status

Promoting your RTPI membership

Whether it's your membership designation, post-nominal letters or displaying a member logo, promoting your RTPI membership gives you a competitive edge.  

Your designation, post-nominal letters and RTPI member logo are versatile tools which can be applied to your everyday communications including your email signature, website and stationery to communicate your professional status. By leveraging your membership in your marketing materials and stationery, you’ll be able to demonstrate your professional knowledge, expertise and commitment to working to the highest standards.  

We encourage you to use these tools to promote your professional status and reap the full benefit of your association with the RTPI.  

This guidance is available on this page, and it is also available in Word and PDF formats. 

Download Promoting your RTPI membership Word document (2.3 MB)

Download Promoting your RTPI membership PDF document (3.1 MB)

Post-nominals and member designations  

We encourage you to use your post-nominals to showcase your achievements and expertise on your email signature website, business cards, CV, LinkedIn and other profiles.

Your member designation can be used as a descriptor in marketing materials to indicate that you have achieved a certain level of professional status and showcase your expertise.

Members may use the following member designations and post-nominals:

• Chartered town planner - MRTPI
• Fellow of the RTPI – FRTPI
• Legal member of the RTPI - LMRTPI
• Legal Associate of the RTPI – LARTPI
• Associate of the RTPI – AssocRTPI
• Honorary member of the RTPI – HonMRTPI

How to use your member logos

The RTPI member logos are an effective mark of quality which can give you, and your practice, a valuable point of difference. There are specific logos available to promote your membership status:

• Chartered
• Fellow
• Legal Associate
• Associate

When using the RTPI member logo there are some fundamental rules which need to be followed to ensure that we maintain the look and impression of a professional membership body. Correct usage of the logos will allow your colleagues and clients to instantly know what your relationship with the RTPI is and the high standards they can expect in working with you.

You must always use the RTPI member logo which has been supplied to you without alteration.

The RTPI member logo and your practice logo must not be positioned next to each other as if to indicate a partnership between the two.

If you or your practice is organising an event or publishing a document, which is not being held on behalf of or endorsed by the RTPI, the main RTPI logo must not be used, and the member designation logo must not be positioned as if to indicate that the event or publication is organised by or endorsed by the RTPI.

You must use the member logo supplied to you, not the general RTPI logo, unless it has been provided to you for a specific purpose. If you are working on our behalf, hosting an RTPI event or a document endorsed by the RTPI, please contact marketing@rtpi.org.uk to discuss logo usage.

Colour  

The member logos are designed in one colour midnight (colour codes PMS 534 / CMYK 100, 71, 0, 51 / RGB 1, 46, 100).

There is white version for use on dark backgrounds, which may align better with your brand’s identity.

There are also white transparent versions for use dark backgrounds, which may align better with your brand’s identity. Either is acceptable to use.

Clear space  

Size  

You may change the size of the RTPI member logo, however, it must maintain its correct proportions and always be legible. Please do not use the mark any smaller than 23mm in height for print or 65px for digital applications. Where it is not possible to display the chartered logo, you can use the text line: Chartered Town Planner or Chartered Town Planners. If you receive a request for a logo, please refer it to marketing@rtpi.org.uk so we can manage the distribution of logos to members to ensure that they are used in a manner consistent with our brand.

Examples

Website  

On websites, we prefer that the logo be placed in the footer and not adjacent to other logos, as this suggests a partnership between the two. The example brand is for reference only. 

Email signature  

On email signatures, we prefer that the logo be placed underneath your contact details and not positioned next to any other logos, as this suggests a partnership between the two. 

On letterheads, we prefer that the logo be placed in the footer and not positioned next to any other logos to avoid suggesting a partnership between the two.

Business cards  

On business cards, we prefer that the logo not be positioned next to any other logos to avoid suggesting a partnership between the two. 

The example brand is for reference only. 

Further guidance

If you have any queries, please email us:

Brand and marketing enquiries: marketing@rtpi.org.uk

Membership enquiries: membership@rtpi.org.uk

General enquiries: contact@rtpi.org.uk