If you’re starting up a martial arts club for the first time it can be a daunting process.

There’s alot to think about – and it goes far beyond just insurances and syllabuses. You need to have a website so you can reach out and grab new students. You also need to have a business plan and business support so you can grow, not to mention about a million other things!

We are really passionate about helping first time black belts and black belt equivalents find a route into teaching for the first time. We have an ever-growing wealth of knowledge and resources you can rely upon when it comes to starting your first club or teaching for the first time. You may already have some ideas of what you need / want from your new club or you may want some help getting your ideas together. We offer free & confidential support to those looking to start their own club so you can get the advice and guidance you need before committing to anything or anyone. You can send us an e-mail or give us a call and we’ll happily talk you through all of your requirements. You may also not really know much about Association’s and what we do or feel you don’t need us. It’s entirely up to you – but we think we can help.

You’ll need affordable instructor insurance & student cover which we can provide or point you towards at some of the best prices in the UK. You’ll also need a professional and dynamic website for your new & growing club. We provide a free WordPress website for all of our members at no extra cost so you can get a professional grade website at no cost.

We work in partnership with martialhost.net which provides martial arts web hosting & design so we can give you excellent discounts & freebies if you decide to get your own website set up, too.

We can also offer you loads of free downloads, useful free software & documents / template forms for your new club so you can get professional forms without any cost if your new to it all. We can offer what we believe to be one of the most comprehensive start up support for new clubs in this country right now and all of our expert advise is completely free of charge to anybody.

If you’re looking to put together your own syllabus and teach your own variation of a style you hold a black belt in we can also help you set up a recognised syllabus and arrange appropriate insurance cover where possible, too. This is also free, of course. As well as this you’ll need recognised qualifications & certification which we provide with every membership. You can see the licenses & certificates we provide with memberships by clicking here.

In short, everything from beautiful instructor’s certification through to sted-fast insurance is available from just one place. We offer hundreds of resources and tools to help you – from a dedicated community and business section through to professional student grading certificates and template documents you can use in your club – all from just £20 per year.

To find out more about what our membership includes why not start by exploring our membership resources or our available insurance.

• The UK’s Best Instructor Certification & Licensing

  We’re experts in finding our members the perfect solutions for licensing, insurance and certification. All membership options come with an instructor’s license, instructor’s certificate and association membership certificate. We’re proud to offer our members the industries highest quality certification.

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• Student, Instructor & Events Insurance

  We know how important the right insurance is for you and your club, that’s why we’re proud to offer the UK’s most comprehensive student membership, licensing and insurance packages from just £5 per student, per year alongside incredibly affordable events cover and some of the UK’s best instructor insurances.

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• Membership Resources & Tools Like No-One Else

  We’re proud to offer thousands of pounds worth of membership benefits and resources rolled into a single, tiny annual membership fee. Access everything from a free website for your club through to business support and blank student certificates, all available from our industry leading member’s only area.

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• One Of The UK’s Top Rated Associations

  We’re absolutely dedicated to progressing UK martial arts and accordingly are known to be the UK’s most advanced association in terms of the way we do business. We run our Association like a business, not a boy’s club and that means quality customer service, excellent prices and an unrivalled experience.

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If you already have your club up & running you most probably have most of what you need in place already or have a good idea what you need or would like to introduce to your club / business. We don’t have any politics or hidden agenda in representing you. You’re free to grade students as you want, when you want and for what you want. We don’t interfere at all in your clubs training and we don’t have any terms or conditions you need to meet and adhere to which gives us ‘ownership’ over your club, either.

We’re not an Association that prescribes syllabus, doctrine and criteria to what you teach – instead we’re a professional body that represents instructors and the way you teach.

You may want a better website – we can help you with that with our Free BMABA.COM WordPress website. We also work in close partnership with MartialHost.net & can offer discounts and freebies if you’d like stand-alone full web hosting. We can also provide student cover with a license book, instructor insurance & events / tournaments insurance at some really competitive prices, too – but you don’t need to buy insurance through us, you’re welcome to get that elsewhere and pay a smaller membership fee to get licensing / membership features without instructor, student or events cover too. This means you can carry on using any current provider or Association if you like.

We’re flexible and think you should be free to make these kind of choices.

If the Association your with at the moment is too regimental or controlling or if you’d like some certification that looks the part and covers your requirements we can help with our martial arts instructor licenses and certification.

If you already have a club you’ll probably already know what you’re looking for and what you need from us. That’s absolutely fine – let us know what you need and hopefully we can provide it cheaper and more efficiently than your Association at the moment. If you get to know us we’re sure you’ll like what you see. You can also look at our membership features and see if we’ve got something you think will benefit you, too.

There’s four sections for you to look at;

If you’re an Association or larger club you no doubt need to be able to rely heavily on certain aspects of your trade (we understand that – we’re an Association too) and we can help you with that. We can provide excellent discounts on martial arts student insurance and can provide solutions for excellent events cover / instructor / student insurance policies.

We can also provide your core services and additional ones like I.T, Web Design, Web Hosting and more with absolute, complete confidentiality so you can rely on us to take care of the things you need with less cost & absolute customer service you can depend on.

If you’re an Association just starting up and need some white-lable student insurance we can provide that. Did you know that there are many Associations in the UK selling student insurance & licensing that actually use the BMABA for their base policy and cover?

We also work in close partnership with other BMABA Network sites and can provide additional services, such as martial arts website design & hosting, certification design and printing, equipment and license books, I.T services, syllabus and certification / licensing services and so much more to Associations and larger clubs.

Best of all, your customers and competitions never need to know you’re going through us so you can get the absolute perfect cover at a fantastic price with maximum scalability, friendly customer service and a sted-fast service you can depend on.

If you need to cover your students look no further than the British Martial Arts & Boxing Association (BMABA).

We’re proud to provide some of the UK’s most affordable student insurance. Our policies are available from as little as £4 per student and license books are also available to accompany any policies at the smallest possible additional charge. You can set up insurance for your students easily when you’re a member or we can set up a payment gateway on our website where your students can pay their own insurance securely and automatically which saves you paperwork & time. You are free to charge what you want from your students which should help you create extra revenue for your club.

As a note worth remembering if you already have students covered elsewhere you aren’t required to sign them up with us. It’s completely optional and there are no additional charges on your membership fees if you don’t want to sign up students with us. Likewise you don’t have to purchase a license book with a policy and you can buy license books without a policy etc.

We’re not only able to offer affordable and flexible student insurance protecting your students against more than 180+ styles and nearly 100+ weapons, but we can provide recognised and professional student licensing, checkable membership and a range of other student only resources at no additional cost.

You can find out more about the cover available and view some sample certificates on the student insurance page.
If you need member to member cover speak to us & let us help you. You don’t need to insure students in bulk – one at a time and whenever you need to is fine. Likewise, if you want to put through a huge bulk block at once we can easily handle this in a timely fashion too.

We are the only UK association with a live API system that allows you to insure students in real-time for automatic and instant cover.

Martial Arts student insurance is provided by our group cover policy with Towergate PLC so we can be flexible to meet your needs where possible.

Find out more about our student cover from here.

We are not insurance providers and don’t initiate, activate or administer any instructor insurance ourselves. What we can do is provide access to some of the best providers in our industry and facilitate insurance alongside membership.

×No UK Association should be offering direct insurance policies to individual cover instructors on a named policy unless regulated by the FCA – to our knowledge no association in the country is regulated to this effect.

This is due to changes in regulation by the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority). Read More. 

With two policies on offer from Lloyds & Allianz we can point you towards the most flexible combination of insurance policies that will include cover for over 180 styles & disciplines and nearly 100 different types of weapons. You could have your policy with you in as little as 20 minutes and have it provided by a name you can trust.

We’re also able to arrange cover for the more difficult styles to get cover for – such as Mixed Martial Arts, Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA / WMA) and Freestyle / Concept Styles. We can also arrange cover for instructors whom are not yet black belts (subject to certain criteria) along with other speciality insurance for instructors. We’re passionate about what we do and because of our respected brand name insurers are often happy to communicate with us when it comes to trying to classify ‘new’ styles or styles that aren’t currently covered. We can also vouch for you via our referee instructor reference program and arrange instructor cover for instructor’s whom can have their senior / chief instructor vouch for their expertise, too.

Contact us if you have any specific questions or requirements. Alternatively you can find out more about our policies in the martial arts insurance section.

We are experienced at arranging insurance for martial arts events, martial arts fight nights, martial arts seminars, workshops, instructor training courses and more.

Whether you need a morning of cover or a 3-4 day policy we can help and we can offer easy to understand cover at some of the UK’s best prices, too – saving you and your club money.

It covers a huge range of weapons & styles and we can explain everything to you so you understand what’s what and what isn’t included. This cover is provided by our group cover policy with Towergate and we pay an excess for any insurable events – we pass that small excess and charge on to you and you are covered through our group cover policy. Easy.

You can find out more about our martial arts events cover and view a sample insurance certificate on the martial arts tournament insurance page.

Martial Arts Websites, Hosting & I.T

We have access to some exceptional hosting & IT capabilities. Everything from simple club websites through to e-commerce, full featured websites, online shops, secure member’s areas and so much more. We also work in partnership with martialhost.net and can provide professional hosting & design from there, too.
All of this power is available readily to our members with a free BMABA.COM WordPress website and even if you’re not a member we’re happy to offer advise and provide I.T services if you need them, too. As far as we’re aware we are the only Association in the UK right now that has this much I.T capability and the only Association to be actively passing that onto our members with Free Websites & other I.T services / software to help bring your club into the 21st Century and get you the students you deserve.

Business Support, Student Retention & Growing Your Club

We have dedicated Business Support within our member’s area to help you grow your club, help you retain students and provide you with the tools you need to do business better, improve your club & make your teaching your career, too. We provide trade priced equipment, online resources, documents, templates, downloads & more to help you along. If you’re not a member you can still give us a call or drop us an e-mail and we’ll try to help where possible. All contact is strictly confidential.

E-Learning & Martial Arts Qualifications And Training

Working in partnership with esensei.org we’re able to provide exclusive access to online e-learning courses, qualifications and programmes designed specifically for martial artists, boxers & self defence instructors / advanced practitioners. Membership with our Association entitles you to free premium courses and exclusive discounts.

Access To An Entire BMABA Network

The BMABA Network provides a huge array of services and tools, serving the martial arts industry in education, insurance, associationship, regulation, services, provisions & IT. This network, comprised of several different sites, services and organisations, all of which are premium and cost independently, are free or heavily subsidised to member’s of our Association.