Run Licensed & Insured Martial Arts Events For Free
Everything you need to run safe, professional martial arts events – from compliance and licensing to insurance and event management.
Fight Nights, Tournaments and Demonstrations Covered With Confidence
Whether you are organising a small interclub randori, a regional tournament, or a national full contact competition, BMABA provides the tools and protection to run your event safely and professionally.
Members receive free event public liability insurance, together with the BMABA Event Ready licensing framework and a powerful event management platform designed specifically for martial arts clubs.
Plan and manage your event in one place. Coordinate your team, complete compliance checks, register participants and activate event licensing and insurance when you are ready.
All included with BMABA membership.
Pricing & Fees
Events, Tournaments & Competitions
You’ll need to be a BMABA member to access event cover.
Once your event has completed the Event Ready safety and compliance checklist, event public liability cover is activated under the BMABA insurance programme.
- £5,000,000 Public Liability
If your event includes participants who are not BMABA licensed students, they can still attend. Non-members are declared through the event system and covered through the BMABA insurance programme for a small per-participant fee.
Included For Free
BMABA membership is designed to help clubs run safe and professional martial arts events. Alongside event insurance, members receive access to the complete Event Ready framework and event management platform.
- Comprehensive event guidance and organiser support
- Full digital event management platform
- Event Ready licensing and compliance framework
- Specialist martial arts event safety policies
- Planning tools, templates and best practice resources
EXCLUSIVE + FREE
Run Professional Martial Arts Events With Our Exclusive Event Ready Platform
Planning a martial arts event should not mean juggling spreadsheets, emails and paperwork. The BMABA Event Manager brings everything together in one place so clubs can plan, license and manage events safely and professionally.
Create events, track compliance, register competitors and collaborate with your team through a dedicated event workspace designed specifically for martial arts competitions.
Once your event completes the Event Ready safety and compliance checklist, it can be licensed under the BMABA framework and receive integrated public liability cover.
BMABA can license a wide range of martial arts events, including:
• Interclub competitions
• Tournaments and championships
• Fight nights and full contact competitions
• Demonstrations and exhibitions
• Open mats, randori sessions and sparring events
• Grading events that include competitive elements
Events must complete the BMABA Event Ready safety and compliance checklist before licensing is approved. Once licensed, public liability cover is activated under the BMABA insurance programme.
Yes.
BMABA can license and provide event cover for both non-contact and full contact martial arts events.
Full contact events require additional oversight to ensure appropriate safety standards are in place, including medical provision, officiating standards and risk management controls. These requirements are verified through the Event Ready compliance framework before cover is activated.
Event public liability insurance protects the event organiser against claims arising from injury or property damage connected to the event.
Participants are expected to hold appropriate martial arts insurance for their own training and competition activities.
BMABA licensed students are already insured through their student membership. If non-BMABA participants attend, they can be declared through the event system so temporary cover can be arranged through the BMABA insurance programme.
All BMABA licensed events must complete the Event Ready compliance checklist.
This includes confirming:
• Appropriate safeguarding arrangements
• Qualified officials and referees
• Suitable medical provision for the level of contact
• Venue suitability and risk management
• Participant registration and declarations
• Compliance with relevant martial arts safety standards
The Event Ready framework guides organisers through these requirements step by step using the event management platform.
In most cases, cover can be arranged as soon as the Event Ready checklist has been completed and your event has been submitted through the BMABA event platform.
Once approved, your event licence is issued and public liability cover becomes active for the event.
You can activate event licences automatically and immediately online 24/7, however the compliance items may take longer for you to put into place.
Yes.
Events must be registered through the Event Ready platform before they take place. This ensures the event meets the required safety standards and allows the event to be properly licensed under the BMABA insurance programme.
Registering your event early also allows time to review safety arrangements and ensure all compliance requirements are met.
Once approved, your event receives:
• A BMABA Event Ready licence confirmation
• Proof of public liability cover for the event
• A digital Event Ready certification badge for promotion
• Event records stored within the BMABA platform
This documentation can be used to demonstrate that your event has been reviewed and licensed under the BMABA event framework.
All insurance policies include an excess, which is the amount payable in the event of a claim before the insurer contributes.
The applicable excess is determined by the insurance policy in place at the time of the event. Organisers should refer to the policy documentation or contact BMABA if they require clarification.
BMABA provides far more than insurance.
Members receive access to the full Event Ready platform, which includes:
• Event planning checklists
• Risk and compliance guidance
• Event management tools
• Best practice resources
• Marketing and promotion guidance
• Event viability calculators
The platform is designed to help clubs plan, manage and deliver safe and professional martial arts events.
Most commercial event insurers simply provide an insurance policy.
BMABA takes a different approach.
Alongside event public liability cover, members receive access to a complete event management and safety framework designed specifically for martial arts.
This includes licensing, compliance guidance, planning tools and organiser support. The result is not just insured events, but better organised and safer martial arts competitions.
Organisers can plan their event however they wish. However, events must complete the BMABA Event Ready compliance checklist in order to receive licensing and activate insurance cover.
The platform is provided to make this process simple and to help clubs manage registrations, compliance and planning in one place.
You’ll need to use the Event Ready system to activate cover, but you don’t need to use the other tools such as task management or rulebook setup.
Events can still include competitors from outside BMABA clubs.
Non-members must be declared through the event platform so temporary cover can be arranged through the BMABA insurance programme. A small per-participant declaration fee applies.
Many organisers use this as an opportunity to introduce visiting competitors to BMABA student membership.
Yes, of course. There’s no obligation to activate our event cover if you don’t want to. You can still use the event management platform to plan and manage your event, even if you don’t intend to licence and insure through us.
Testimonials
What do our members say?
John Matthews
Fantastic organisation - very welcomed in comparison to the usual organisations and NGBs out there.
Miles ahead of other organisations in terms of their transparency, attention to detail and genuine understanding of martial arts.
Very affordable, fair and a lovely team behind the scenes. Just moved our entire school across and very, very happy - no need to go anywhere else.
C. Sanderson
Very easy to navigate website making it an even more pleasant experience along with very friendly staff and members.
Fantastic Value for money and an association that puts its students and instructors first. Instructors have full autonomy over their club without any interference but with enough support to feel part of a valued and safe group.
Georgina
Found these guys in Martial Arts Illustrated doing a piece on professionalism in martial arts and thought, as an instructor, they might be worth looking at further. Really impressed from the moment I hit their website through to now, 3 months on as a member.
Quite alot of additional bits and pieces to look at, as my current org wasn't asking me to have any safeguarding or dbs etc - but I suppose that's only a good thing as it means i'm now properly checked and being professional.
Website is amazing - great member's area too. Unlike the normal stuff I'm used to seeing, having spent years with the other 'big players'. Great staff, Giovanni is rediculously knowledgable and our club is now growing under the banner of what has got to be the best martial arts org in the UK.
Michael Willington
The BMABA are unlike any other org I've come across in this industry. Their honest, professional, politics free and most importantly, they know what they're doing. Website is leaps and bounds ahead of the rest, insurance is comprehensive and their overall customer service is just unlike anything else I've had in 25 years of martial arts.
Amazing through and through. Would definitely recommend.
Jon D
I joined the BMABA right in its infancy (I believe I was their second member!). I had been searching, literally for a few years, to find an association where I could get away from the political wrangling, find support where and when I needed it, be regulated in a safe and formal way, but be left to run my classes as I wanted to run them.
Giovanni is the most helpful, respectful and genuine person who has turned the possibility of a non-political, highly respected and supportive Martial Arts Association into a reality. I cannot begin to understand how he has found the time, energy and ability to build the BMABA into the association it is today with a first class Team and unquestionable ethics, but this is what all other Martial Arts Associations need to aspire to.
I could bang on for hours about the BMABA but don't take my word for it - go and visit the BMABA website and see for yourself what support and benefits are on offer - it is light years ahead and exists for people who just want to enjoy teaching and practising their Art.
Ali Hasanzade
Someone has answered my gentle prayers and FINALLY designed an organisation that will leave you stress-free in the world of MARTIAL ARTS 🙂
I am so excited to leave my recommendation because words cannot describe how much BMABA means to me and how it has changed everything in my organisation for the better.
Fabian Burdett
As we all know 2020 has been the year from hell for martial arts. We have been push about and left in the dark. One thing that has come out of that is BMABA have done everything in their power to keep clubs like mine up to date with what's happening and tried to push the government to notice us. Couldn't wish for a better association to be a part of. From the courses to the schemes available to clubs. Can't wait to see where 2021 takes BMABA. We sure will be here to go for the ride
Once again big THANK YOU to you guys for all the help. 💙🐺👊
Date of experience: 17 November 2020
John Tomsett
I have been a customer of BMABA for two years now, and I am extremely impressed with their services. As a New City Martial Arts club, we were in need of a reliable Club Association and Insurance provider, and BMABA has exceeded our expectations in every aspect.
First and foremost, the customer service provided by BMABA is exceptional. Their team is responsive, professional, and genuinely dedicated to ensuring that our needs are met. Whenever we had a query or require assistance, they responded rapidly and effectively, addressing our concerns with a level of professionalism that is truly commendable.
Matthew Johnson
Having left my previous association in November, and being very daunted by the prospect of being responsible for all my own compliance and everything else I can honestly say BMABA have made the whole thing possible and even pleasant.
The training resources are great, it's been fantastic for me to be able to quickly up skill my team, the insurance is really easy to sort out, the team are super friendly and helpful, the perks on Gold membership are also fantastic.
I would love to be able to give something "constructive" but honestly I can't. From signing up for the gold package (the perks are great), additional insurances, licensing, LSGR, training, certificates for gradings and everything in between they've been really awesome.
If you're committed to doing things right, without breaking the bank, don't hesitate. Outstanding work guys, please keep it up
Adrian Jackson
Always quick to respond and thoughtful. Great service delivered at a very reasonable price and very supportive of the community. Been a member for a couple of years now and recommend highly
Matthew Robert Cooling-Stones
as i'm heading into the brave world of starting up my own small self defence club in our village, i can say with complete honesty and satisfaction that BMABA have been the most supportive and upfront association i have come across. the help they give setting up, and walking you through step by step, to the certifications they offer are a blessing for this industry. i have seen and had first hand experience with the Mcdojo's offering you the greatest adventures of a life time, and golden opportunities. but these guys are the real deal... i hold my head high, and say with great pride "i am a BMABA member"
