We support more than 100,000 martial artists across 6,500 clubs every year.

There's nobody else within independent UK martial arts doing more to improve standards and drive change across a membership body of this scale.

British Martial Arts & Boxing Association (BMABA) is A Professional, Independent Grassroots Martial Arts Association

Our Key Functions

Supporting Clubs & Instructors

Championing Grass Roots Participation

Working Tirelessly To Progress Safeguarding

As the UK's largest independent martial arts trade body, we're making a profound impact on grassroots martial arts.

Some Of Our Key Contributions

Ready to take your martial arts club to the next level, without the politics and egos?

Multi-Award Winning & Truly Politics Free

We’re a completely different generation of martial arts association, focused on entrepreneurial spirit and a professional, customer services driven operation. We’re multi-award winning and truly disruptive in UK martial arts. And we love that. 

Self-Funded Change.

Despite reaching out to Sport England, DCMS and others over the past more than a decade of using martial arts to drive change, our pleas have fallen on deaf ears. So we’ve taken on the mountain ourselves, funding our own programmes and effecting real grassroots change through our clubs.

#PunchLikeAGirl

Our focused campaign to champion female martial arts leaders, and to get more women and girls into practical self defence.

Fighting Chance Scholarships

Our flagship programme, offering scholarships to children growing up in poverty to help them get into martial arts.

#DitchTheBlade

Working with communities to tackle the endemic issue that is knife crime and youth violence.

 

From £20 to 100,000 Members.

See how our founder, aged just twenty, took £20 of ‘start up capital’ and turned it into the success story that is BMABA. A true rags-to-riches story of a young lad growing up in poverty using martial arts to break free, and give back. 

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