Specialist Martial Arts Event Insurance & Support
Fight Nights, Tournaments & Demonstrations — Covered With Confidence
Running a martial arts event is about more than just securing insurance. It’s about leveraging expertise, technology, and clarity to ensure every event is safe, compliant, and professionally managed. At BMABA CIC, our approach combines specialist event cover with real-world guidance and tools tailored to martial arts clubs.
What Our Event Insurance Includes
Streamlined Cover
Public liability policies starting at £139.99 (non/semicontact) or £199.99 (full contact), covering up to £5 million in liability, with a modest £500 excess per claim.
Risk-Managed Safety
Cover applies only when the event meets BMABA standards, including required risk assessments, professional rigging, paramedic attendance, and hospital notifications.
Quick Processing
In-house administration means faster, cost-effective provisioning of cover, even for smaller clubs.
Complementary Resources
Access our free Event Management Checklist via MyBMABA to help you prepare your event thoroughly and confidently.
Pricing & Fees
For non-contact and semi-contact events
You’ll need to be a BMABA member to access event cover.
- £2,000,000 Public Liability - £139.99
- £5,000,000 Public Liability – £189.99
For full contact events
You’ll need to be a BMABA member to access event cover.
- £2,000,000 Public Liability – £199.99
- £5,000,000 Public Liability – £249.99
Included For Free
Because we’re a membership organisation, not an insurer, we have ‘skin in the game’ in terms of ensuring your event is safe and well run. That’s why we provide;
- Comprehensive guidance and support
- Full digital event management tools
- Expert Event Safety policies
- And more
We can provide cover for a wide range of martial arts events, including gradings, demonstrations, open days, inter-club competitions, tournaments, and full-contact fight nights. The level of cover and requirements vary depending on the nature of the event.
Yes. Non- and semi-contact events can be covered from £139.99, while full-contact events start from £199.99. Each type of event has specific safety requirements you’ll need to meet in order for cover to be valid.
The event insurance protects the organisers (you as the club or association) from claims arising out of negligence during the event. It does not automatically provide personal accident or injury cover for competitors or attendees. If you need that, we can arrange additional fighter or participant cover via our broker.
All events must comply with BMABA’s event safety standards. This includes completing and retaining risk assessments, ensuring professional rigging and setup, having appropriate first aid or paramedic cover, notifying the local hospital of the event, and using qualified referees or officials.
Because we handle all administration in-house, cover can usually be arranged very quickly — often within a few working days once we’ve received the details of your event. For urgent events, we’ll do everything possible to accelerate the process.
Yes. We require advance notice and full details of your event so we can validate compliance with safety standards and issue the correct cover. Events run without prior authorisation will not be insured.
You’ll receive an official BMABA Events Insurance Certificate along with your membership documents. This can be shown to venues, local authorities, or stakeholders as proof of cover.
Yes, there is a £500 excess payable on each claim. This applies across all event cover types.
We go beyond just insurance. As part of your membership, you’ll gain access to our free Event Management Checklist and other resources via MyBMABA. These tools help ensure your event is safe, compliant, and professionally managed from start to finish.
Unlike brokers who just sell you a certificate, BMABA combines cover with decades of martial arts governance experience. We understand what safe events should look like, and we provide the guidance, systems, and sector expertise to help you deliver them with confidence.
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"
