Coronavirus Recovery Toolkit & Exit-Strategy
As a direct response to the crippling damage inflicted on the UK martial arts sector by Coronavirus we have launched the industry’s most comprehensive exit-strategy and recovery toolkit for clubs and instructors.
We are providing everything our clubs need to survive lockdown, navigate the gradual relaxation of restrictions and flourish as clubs re-open; first on a distanced basis and through until all restrictions are finally lifted. We are the first and only major martial arts association to provide such a comprehensive and fully-featured selection of tools and services to help our members through Covid-19.
What’s Included?
Covid-Aware Martial Arts Instructor Qualification
Access an exclusive and martial-arts specific Coronavirus Aware Martial Arts Instructor Qualification with a beautiful certificate inclusive to help you mitigate and minimise risk to your club whilst planning for a safe, controlled re-opening.
Learn MoreCovid-Aware Marketing Material
Exclusive, professional designed martial arts marketing posters to help you attract new members whilst being mindful to Covid-19. Customisable for your club online.
Learn MoreSocial Distancing Assistance
Access help and support running a socially distanced martial arts session. From practical provisions like distanced posters and marketing material through to floor plans and startegic support - it's all inclusive.
Learn MoreCovid-19 Martial Arts Risk Assessments
Template risk assessments and guidance documents available to download and use to help you run online and remote training as well as outdoor classes and in-door socially distanced lessons, when permitted.
Learn MoreHelp Running Online & Outdoor Sessions
From tutorials to help you work with Zoom and YouTube to free insurance extensions and safeguarding guidance to assist you in delivering outdoor lessons to small groups and both live / pre-recorded content over the internet, our online delivery centre is ready to go.
Learn MoreNational Advertising Campaign
We're investing tens of thousands of pounds to advertise martial arts nationally to help more people get into training, and to find our approved BMABA member clubs. This includes national advertising campaigns across web, media and social media as well as exclusive martial arts directories too.
Learn MoreLiaison Support With Councils, Schools & Venues
We know local authorities, schools and venue holders might be nervous about permitting outdoor lessons in parks or allowing socially responsible in-door training when permitted. Our liaison team can help you put together a credible proposal and we will work directly with your authority, school or venue to answer queries and put their minds at ease.
Learn MoreESCP Policy Creation
We have created the industry's first ESCP policy - a document that helps you communicate with parents and students how you plan to allow safe training in your club. We'll help you create and refine this policy to offer you a great line of protection and a superb rootmap out of lockdown.
Learn MoreSyllabus & Grading Assistance
We have created detailed and open-minded policy and regulation to enable adaptations to your content, syllabus and grading schedules to ensure students remain engaged and rewarded, whilst relieving the pressure on you to try and run adapted or minimised gradings.
Learn MoreInsurance & Safeguarding Guidance
Our policy experts have adapted and made conditions available on our insurances that will help you keep running a successful and growing martial arts club without sacrifising safeguarding or insurance requirements.
Learn MoreLatest Guidance & Support
We monitor the DCMS and Government closely, and work with the Sport & Recreation Alliance to adapt national guidelines for our clubs to help our members stay ahead of the curve and up to date with the latest available options for covid-safe martial arts classes. We are also on hand for free, unlimited, confidential and impartial guidance.
Learn MoreThousands Of Pounds Of Subsidies
We've heavily discounted all of our insurance, membership, licensing and training to the absolute bare-minimums to make this as open and accessible as possible to as many clubs as we can. We are also providing tens of thousands of pounds of free resources to our member clubs to help them through Covid-19.
Learn MoreFree Covid-Aware Martial Arts Instructor Qualification
We provide completely free access to our Covid-Aware martial arts instructor qualification to all of our instructors. The course helps you understand and mitigate the risk of Coronavirus in your club as well as covering how to plan for a safe re-opening.
Free Covid-Aware Martial Arts Marketing Material
Access a range of posters, flyers and online-media that is all professionally designed and customisable. All of the marketing material provided is Covid-Aware and helps you show a socially responsible, safer place to return to martial arts.
Guidance Socially Distancing In Club
We have designed a number of floor plans and guides to help you manage the flow of footfall in your club, as well as guidance notes and assistance in controlling crowds and managing student numbers to help you comply with government social distancing measures.
Covid-19 Martial Arts Risk Assessments
We have pre-designed a selection of professional examples and editable risk assessments. This includes assessing the risk of teaching online (both live and remotely) as well as teaching outdoors and indoors, when guidance permits.
Assistance Running Outdoor Lessons
We provide our members with everything needed to provide a safe, responsible class outdoors. From Government Guidance to logistical support all the way to help arranging licenses with local authorities, we will help you make the most of the available teaching opportunities.
Access National Advertising
We know how important it is – more so than ever – that you find and attract new members. That’s why we’re investing tens of thousands of pounds for a range of national campaigns to help get more people into martial arts, both now (during the easing lockdown in line with guidance) and post-Covid. This will include social media, traditional media and viral media marketing in addition to advertising directories and other exposure opportunities online and in print. Our members can tap into this huge advertising ‘engine’ at no extra cost to promote their club.
Liaison Support With Councils, Schools & Venues
We understand the difficulty you will face delivering outdoor sessions or re-opening physical venues. That’s why we have a dedicated liaison service in place to help act as a bridge between you and councils, schools and venues. We can furnish them with documents and confirmation of insurances, policies, procedure and so on, as well as acting as a consultant to you and your club to help you get access to the spaces you need as fast as possible.
ESCP Martial Arts Policy
ESCP Policy Creation We have created the industry’s first ESCP policy – a document that helps you communicWe have created the industry’s first ESCP policy – a document that helps you communicate with parents and students how you plan to allow safe training in your club. We’ll help you create and refine this policy to offer you a great line of protection and a superb rootmap out of lockdown.ate with parents and students how you plan to allow safe training in your club. We’ll help you create and refine this policy to offer you a great line of protection and a superb rootmap out of lockdown.
Grading & Syllabus Guidance & Help
We have created detailed and open-minded policy and regulatory framework that will enable adaptations to your content, syllabus and grading schedules to ensure students remain engaged and rewarded, whilst relieving the pressure on you to try and run adapted or minimised gradings. This ensures your work and your students’ grades remain nationally ratified whilst allowing you as a club the largest amount of possible space to deviate from the ‘norm’ to help you through these challenging times.
Insurance & Safeguarding Guidance
Making sure you still have the correct insurance provisions and – above all else – ensuring safeguarding obligations are not detrimentally impacted – remains critical. We automatically upgrade and pay for any additions to insurance to ensure our members whom use us for insurance can teach online (pre-recorded and live) and outdoors, as well as in-club (where permitted) and be sure insurance is still effective. Our safeguarding guidance will assist clubs in understanding obligations and adapting their policies too.
Latest Government Guidance & Specialist Support Implementing Changes
We monitor the DCMS and Government closely, and work with the Sport & Recreation Alliance to adapt national guidelines for our clubs to help our members stay ahead of the curve and up to date with the latest available options for covid-safe martial arts classes. We are also on hand for free, unlimited, confidential and impartial guidance. We’re not a ‘tin-pot one man band’. We have an office and dedicated staff, so our resources for assisting is much greater than most organisations.
Thousands Of Pounds Of Subsidies To Support Clubs With Insurance, Licensing & Qualifications
We’ve heavily discounted all of our insurance, membership, licensing and training to the absolute bare-minimums to make this as open and accessible as possible to as many clubs as we can. We are also providing tens of thousands of pounds of free resources to our member clubs to help them through Covid-19.
Access All Of This Support, For Free
We provide access to all of our Coronavirus support and recovery toolkit for free for every BMABA member. We will stop at nothing to help the UK martial arts industry recover, and to ensure as many people as possible continue to enjoy grass roots martial arts. We will keep building on our Covid-19 recovery toolkit, but it will all remain available freely to our members.
Our Latest Covid-19 Updates
We’re here to help with questions and queries.
Access expert guidance and speak with our dedicated team for queries on membership, insurance, eligibility, us or just about anything else you might need.
We’re not based from a kitchen worktop, nor do we employ call centres overseas to answer generic FAQs for us. We have three locations throughout the UK including our Headquarters in West Sussex. BMABA boasts over 1,250sqft of newly refurbished top-spec office space for our dedicated staff and everyone you speak with here – be it via email, live chat, Facebook or phone – is part of the team and not an outsourced agent.
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Join More Than 6,500 Like-Minded Instructors & Clubs
We’re one of the largest martial arts associations in the UK with more than 30,000 registered members across thousands of clubs and instructors.
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We have our own offices, not the kitchen table.
There’s nothing wrong with smaller martial arts associations. In fact, we think it’s good for competition and variety. Unfortunately too many are one-man bands run from kitchen tables, and not professional set ups with staff.
We have three locations – Manchester, London and West Sussex. Our HQ has over 1,400sqft of dedicated, bespoke office space for our team of staff and volunteers.
Founded in 2012 by the now Multi-Award Winning Social Entrepreneur & Life-Long Martial Artist
Frustrated by a lack of affordable, professional alternatives to the associations Giovanni Soffietto had dealt with when participating and then teaching Thai Boxing and Karate, BMABA was founded.
Focused on professional standards and ethics rather than belts and titles, BMABA boasts the pedigree of a life-long martial arts expert come award winning social entrepreneur as it’s Chief Executive Officer. It’s fair to say we’re well qualified and backed by an industry giant.
Our Membership Isn’t Just A Piece Of Paper
We have always been focused on providing clubs with everything they need under a single membership, and our range of resources, tools and features delivers exactly that.
From template grading certificates and documents through to a free club website and national club listings. Whether it be advice on club structure and marketing or membership marks and qualifications. DBS checks, first aid qualifications, coaching certificates, instructor licenses, insurance, business plans, equipment, graphics – you named it, we cover it under just one simple, affordable membership.
Beautiful, Professional Certification As Standard
So much of what you do will be judged on the grades, credentials and certification you hold. We get that.
We know parents, students and venues don’t always understand exactly what qualifies you. We help by providing superb, professional certification that ensures you look the part. Be it a Dan Grade, Instructor License or Insurance Document, all of our digital and printed certificates will meet the mark and be accepted across the UK.
Our Profits Fund The Fighting Chance Foundation
All of our eligible profits are donated to the Fighting Chance Foundation to help change lives through martial arts.
From programmes designed to help children in poverty and women & girls at risk of violence through to anti-knife campaigns and disability inclusion work, the Fighting Chance Foundation changes lives through martial arts.
Access The Latest Martial Arts Qualifications
We provide all of our members with a free Level 1 and level 2 Martial Arts Instructor Qualification. We also provide access to more than twenty professional courses and qualifications to help expand our member’s portfolios.
From first aid, safeguarding and coaching through to concussion awareness, club colours and marketing – BMABA are a household name in martial arts for providing high-quality, affordable access to training and qualifications for martial arts.
We Back Our Members, Even During The Darkest Of Times
Our response and support throughout the Coronavirus Pandemic confirmed to the industry the way BMABA treats it’s members.
We provided daily updates, dedicated online training hubs, access to a free COVID instructor qualification, subsidised insurances, a self-funded Covid Recovery Scheme, mediation services with local authorities and interpretations of DCMS policy. We increased our operational hours to ensure a 7 day a week response and invested more than ever in our systems, processes and memberships. This is what an association should be doing for its members we believe. As our slogan goes; “To High Places By Narrow Roads“.
You won't find another UK martial arts association that can offer so much to their members.
Not entirely sure?
Try us for free for 6 months, with no obligation.
There’s absolutely no obligation to commit beyond 6 months. You’ll be able to explore what we offer, our member’s area, all of our licensing options and get a better feel for the BMABA’s service without any obligation to become a full member. We genuinely believe the best way to find out if we’re any good is to try us for yourself.
Switching To Us
We know there’s a lot to think about, and we can help.
We have absolutely no interest in enticing you to switch to BMABA if we’re not the right fit. We know that won’t last and isn’t good for you or us. Instead, we can offer a confidential switching process to help you price up whether or not it’s worth while, whilst also getting answers to any questions you might have.