Report A Concern

If you have any immediate concerns that a child or adult at risk may be at risk, you should report this to the Police on 999.

Whilst we will always escalate concerns to appropriate agencies, we can’t always ensure an immediate response so its important you escalate any immediate threats, concerns or worries to a competent authority who can act now.

If in doubt, call 999 and ask for the Police.

No. We can only investigate clubs who are registered with BMABA.

There’s no regulator in martial arts, and no singular governing body so it’s up to each individual organisation to oversee the conduct of clubs associated with them.

With this in mind, we can only oversee clubs directly registered with BMABA – British Martial Arts & Boxing Association (not to be confused with similar sounding organisations).

If you’re not sure whether or not an instructor is registered with us, please search here first.

If your concern relates to a BMABA club, please raise it with us and we’ll do our best to help.

We have no authority over clubs registered to us as we’re a trade body, not a regulator – but that said, we can and do take action against clubs ‘flying the BMABA banner’ and acting in anyway that might bring our good name into disrepute.

We can’t always take sides or reach conclusions in matters that may occur outside of the martial arts setting or matters of a commercial nature, but we’ll do our best.

If it relates to safeguarding or compliance, we’ll always take prompt action.

All concerns raised are triaged to our specialist DSLs (Designated Safeguarding Leads) who are employees of BMABA and in place solely to serve our core missions and values. We never farm out any safeguarding information or cases to instructors or committees, so there is never a risk of politics or friendships getting in the way of prompt action being taken.