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BRONZE MEMBERSHIP

An affordable membership brimming digital resources and tools for modern clubs.

BRONZE

Bronze Membership offers the most affordable, cutting-edge digital membership offering available in the UK For Martial Arts Clubs

Design to be affordable yet jam-packed with features, tools and technology, Bronze membership provides instructors with a huge array of premium resources, tools and technologies alongside our renowned membership in the perfect digital-only setup.

Access hundreds of tools, content and resources, including our Level 1 and 2 Coaching Qualification. Also included is access to cutting edge technology, licensing provisions and marketing support. Enjoy our instructor portal and MyBMABA with unlimited access 24/7. Our BMABA instructor app allows you to take your membership with you on the go, with high-definition PDF certification on hand 365 days a year served from our secure cloud.

Bronze membership doesn’t include any printed goods, such as printed certificates, licences or ID cards but we do offer PDF certification as standard with the option of cutting edge app-based ID cards too!

You’ll also benefit from all of our web technology – including WordPress, Club Management, SEO, AI, Analytics and more. Bronze membership provides a modern, technology-first approach to associationship and that cost-saving is passed back to you in the form of an affordable way to access the latest resources, tools and support.

Whether you’re a start-up club looking to meet key liabilities or you’re a larger school wanting an affordable way to access our renowned services, support and tools – Bronze Membership is hugely popular and fitting to clubs of all sizes and styles.

Everything You'll Ever Need All Of The Below & More Is Included In This Membership

  • Instructor Certification & Licensing
  • Student Insurance & Licensing
  • Free Instructor Qualifications
  • Free Club Website
  • Club Management Support
  • Instructor Certification & Licensing
  • Logos & Accreditation Marks
  • SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Platform
  • Local & National Networking
  • Stock Grading Certificates
  • Free Instructor Qualifications
  • Template Documents & Forms
  • Safeguarding Code For Martial Arts
  • Best Practice Guidance
  • a.i For Martial Arts
  • Event Management Checklists
  • Safeguarding Model Policies
  • Analytics & Tracking Tools
  • Budgeting Apps
  • Cyber Toolkit
  • Cash Grants & Funding
  • Concussion & Head Injury Policies
  • National Advertising
  • Entrepreneur's Support
  • Plus So Much More

FREE Club Management Software Up To 25 Students Fully Inclusive At No Extra Cost

ClubManager by BMABA is our in-house, professionally developed Club Management solution. It’s free for all of our members and comes with a tonne of essential and groundbreaking features as standard.

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  • Attendance & Grade Tracking
  • Student Records Management
  • Class Bookings & Timetables
  • Flexible Payments & Memberships
  • Grading Certificates Generator
  • Licence Slip & Documents Generator
  • Customised Branding & Functionality
  • Data Freedom & Ownership
  • Manage Events & Competitions
  • Student Portal & Member's Content
  • Concussion & RtP Management
  • Digital Incident Log Book
  • Digital Risk Assessments
  • Task Management
  • Registrations & Waivers

Stunning Digital Certification & Instructor Pack

Access our renowned instructor certification in PDF format as standard with Bronze membership. Your certification and membership documentation along with any applicable insurances will be viewable and downloadable in PDF format 24/7 via our website or app.

Club Management Platform

Whether it’s tracking grades and attendance, taking payment online, using the online digital log book, producing custom club certificates or so much more. Our in-house, exclusive ClubManagerbyBMABA is fully inclusive in this membership up to 25 active students.

Certification, Insurance & Evidence With You, On The Go.

Access your BMABA instructor’s documentation, student license slips, insurance certification and even your own submitted DBS checks, first aid qualifications and other evidence. Our systems provide you with access to all of this documentation on the go, 24/7. Be it from a mobile, our app or a desktop – so you can access, download and share your certification when you need it most.

MyBMABA App

Available on Android and OS devices, the BMABA app allows instructors and clubs access to the latest updates, resources, guidance, community, forums and loads more. Bring your association, along with all your digital certification – with you in your pocket. Included are also cutting-edge features, like our digital ID card.

Unrivalled Support Setting Up & Growing Your Club

Whether your ambition is to start a small not for profit club or to build up the next national franchise, our range of business support, online courses, resources, tools, template excel spreadsheets, expert articles and more will help your club thrive.

Designated Safeguarding Lead Service & Expert Safeguarding Guidance

We know Safeguarding can be a difficult area for smaller clubs to field, and that’s why we’ve stepped up to the plate to offer a completely free designated safeguarding lead service. This allows your club to designated BMABA as the welfare officer, which means we’ll deal with all your safeguarding concerns, questions and referrals. This is on top of our already comprehensive support on all things safeguarding.

Thousands Of Pounds Of Services & Tools

From template grading certificates, safeguarding policies and club registration forms to our online logo designer, club accreditation marks and premium club finder listings. It’s all inclusive and wrapped up into your membership fee so you can access more services with us than anywhere else without paying a penny more.

Cutting-Edge A.I To Help Reduce Admin

Access our AIbyBMABA platform, which can do everything from write blog posts and create Facebook adverts through to drafting website content and producing images. 

A Free Club Website

real club website, not something you send word documents back and forth on! Even if you don’t want to use our free club management platform, we can provide access to amazing web building platforms perfect for creating club websites, shops, blogs, members areas and more.

Club Colours Award & SCiMA Automatic Certification

Enjoy open access to our Club Colours Qualification and the associated Award, which makes your club a ‘School of Excellence’. Our Club Colours Award, which looks to ensure clubs are up to date and compliant with best practice and safeguarding is of such a high standard it will automatically entitle clubs to be awarded (or renewed on) the Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts on completion.

Dozens of Clever Time-Saving Resources

Whether it’s our template forms and model policies, or our word-editable certificates. We’re always innovating new ways to produce tools and resources you can download and use at club level, to save time and money.

SEO, Analytics & Forms

Unlimited access to our special SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), Analytics and Forms platforms, designed to make sure your club website stands apart from the competition and is first to be seen on search engines like Google.

White Label Resells & Value-Added Extras

We know it’s hard enough keeping members engaged at the best of times. That’s why we produce loads of freely editable and resellerable content – from our recipe and cookbook series through to software, training guides and more. Its yours to customise and redeploy as you see fit.

Expert Guidance & Specialist Support

Whether it’s specialist understanding of insurance and the way it works, or expert guidance on safeguarding. Perhaps some topical advice on taking on a lease on new premises, or legal editorial help with contracts. Your membership with BMABA puts you in touch with some of the industry’s best minds.

Exclusive Vlogs, Interviews & Content

Whether it’s a two hour webinar on martial arts insurance and risk management, or an interview with a leading solicitor on youth violence, this membership comes with access to hundreds of hours of vlogs, videos and audio.

Level 1 & 2 Instructor Qualifications

Included in this membership is access to our level 1 and 2 BMABA instructor qualification, which looks to break down the legalities and processes of teaching in the UK across multiple areas, including safeguarding, GDPR, risk assessments, law and more.

Networking

Whether it’s discussing the latest industry news in our forums, connecting with local clubs in our Facebook Group or arranging competitions across our national network of clubs – you’re gaining access to a huge community of like minded clubs and instructors.

National Listings Access

Advertise your club on a cutting edge BMABA Club Finder, with access to specialist analytics and a beautiful club listing that will help you get seen as a credible, checked instructor under our banner.

Certification & Licencing Like Non-Other

Whether it’s your instructor’s licence, instructor certificate, proof of insurance or other similar level documentation – when you carry BMABA documents with you not only do you look the part, but it’s backed up by our instantly checkable online register, too.

Help Balancing The Books

Our budgeting app helps you plan and budget by assisting with income, outgoings and savings in a secure sandbox environment. 

A Refreshing Change

A portion of all fees paid go to Charity:Water and Ecologi. This helps us continue to invest in clean water projects around the world and to keep planting trees in the UK and overseas to tackle deforestation and climate change. We’ll also use a portion of our profits to fund our BMABA Grants Programme, which helps charitable projects here in the UK through our very own member clubs. Thank you.

Led By The Multi-Award Winning Social Entrepreneur & Men's Health Coach Of The Year

We were set up in 2020 by Giovanni Soffietto – a then unknown twenty year old who had grown up in poverty. Armed with just £20 of ‘start up capital’ but a life-time of passion for martial arts, BMABA has today become the multi-award winning organisation renowned for professionalism and for being a major industry disruptor.

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Multi-Award Winning & As Seen On Various Platforms

Join More Than 6,500 Like-Minded Instructors & Clubs

Representing Over 100,000 Members Across 94 Disciplines

A completely free club management system.

We know. What’s the catch? Well, we’re a trade body for martial arts, not a profit-hungry corporation. We know how important the latest tech is in keeping our clubs kicking and – ultimately – that keeps us going too!

FREE Club Management Software Exclusively Built By Us, Just For Our Clubs

ClubManager by BMABA is our in-house, professionally developed Club Management solution. It’s free for all of our members and comes with a tonne of essential and groundbreaking features as standard.

LEARN MORE >>

  • Attendance & Grade Tracking
  • Student Records Management
  • Class Bookings & Timetables
  • Flexible Payments & Memberships
  • Grading Certificates Generator
  • Licence Slip & Documents Generator
  • Customised Branding & Functionality
  • Data Freedom & Ownership
  • Leads & Prospects Management
  • Online Video Training Library
  • 1to1 Tuition Management & Billing
  • Events Management & Ticketing
  • Secure Safeguarding Case Management
  • Manage Events & Competitions
  • Student Portal & Member's Content
  • Concussion & RtP Management
  • Digital Incident Log Book
  • Digital Risk Assessments
  • Task Management
  • Registrations & Waivers
  • Built-In Club Community & Forums
  • Manual Invoicing
  • Accounting & Budgeting
  • Staff Management & Staffroom
  • Calendar & Scheduling
  • Business Management & Planning
  • Easy To Use Parent Accounts

Membership with BMABA is so much more than just a piece of paper.

From template grading certificates and draft 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 – even club management platforms and web hosting. We can cover it under just one simple, affordable membership.

Founded in 2012 by the now Multi-Award Winning Social Entrepreneur & Life-Long Martial Artist, Giovanni Soffietto.

Frustrated by a governing structure in martial arts that failed to look forward to the future, Giovanni setup BMABA in 2012. Aged just 20 with only £20 of ‘start-up capital’ BMABA comes from humble beginnings.

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. We now turnover more than £1,000,000 and support tens of thousands of martial artists across the UK.

"BMABA give away belts for cash"

"BMABA don't care about safeguarding"

"BMABA are so unprofessional"

Over the past 13+ years we’ve heard so much of this sort of nonsense from the ‘old boys’ associations.

The truth couldn’t be further than their lazy, fear-filled assertions. We’re a disruptor, renowned for our professionalism and governance, but they wouldn’t want you to know that. 

In an industry so full of cowboys, we don’t expect you to take our word for any of this. Dig beneath the surface, and see for yourself.

Membership To BMABA Is So Much More Than 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.

Club Colours Award That Exceeds Sport England’s Safeguarding Standards

Our Club Colours Award process not only issues a ‘school of excellence’ mark to clubs who hold it, but the safeguarding oversight has been mapped against SCiMA and then approved by Sport England which allows us to automatically issue the ‘Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts’ award to every club that holds our ‘tick mark’. We receive zero funding to run this, but we ensure it’s completely free for every single BMABA member to access.

We’re the only independent association who can offer this.

Certification, Insurance & Evidence With You, On The Go.

Tired of waiting weeks for hand-written documents in the post? Access your BMABA instructor’s documentation, student license slips, insurance certification and even your own submitted DBS checks, first aid qualifications and other criteria 24/7.

Our systems provide you with access to all of this documentation on the go. Be it from a mobile, our app or a desktop – so you can access, download and share your certification when you need it most.

BMABA App

Available for free on Android and OS devices, the BMABA app allows instructors, volunteers and assistant instructors to access the latest updates, resources, guidance, community, forums and loads more. Bring your association, along with all your digital certification – with you in your pocket.

Industry Renowned Qualifications & Training

We’re always building on our library of industry-leading awards and qualifications. This includes our Level 1 and Level 2 instructor qualifications, our Safeguarding & Lead Safeguarding qualifications, our First Aid Award, Club Colours Award, Club Management Qualifications, Risk Management, Concussion & Head Injury, and so much more. 

All online and accessible 24/7 from any device.

The Ultimate, FREE, Club Management Platform

We provide all members with access to exclusive student management software which will help you track attendance, see student details, show your class schedule, accept online bookings, run a club shop, update your members with club news, run a members’ only area and so much more. All completely free of charge.

From SEO, AI and Analytics through to content publishing, class scheduling, online incident log book entries and so, so much more. It’s all inclusive at no extra cost making BMABA the industry leaders in affordable tech solutions for martial arts clubs.

£1,000 Of Tools, Rolled Into One Affordable Membership

From template grading certificates, safeguarding policies and club registration forms to our online logo designer, club accreditation marks and premium club finder listings. BMABA Club Cash Grants and designated safeguarding lead services through to marketing plans, SEO platforms, AI software, Wordpress websites, web hosting and so, so much more. It’s all inclusive and wrapped up into your membership fee so you can access more services with us than anywhere else without paying a penny more.

We Grant Up To £500 To Help Clubs Make Charitable Impact & Grow

Our BMABA Club Grants Scheme donates up to £500 per grant to clubs up and down the UK of all sizes. It helps to make a difference to clubs who want to make a charitable impact, purchase new kit to offer safer classes, or need emergency support in times of crisis. 

We’ve funded research into safeguarding failures in MMA, classes for women and girls at risk of abuse, scholarships for children living in poverty, new mats and punchbags for clubs wanting to safer classes, and so much more.

All self funded. From our profits, back into our community.

Ready to take your club to new heights?

It's in our slogan; "To High Places By Narrow Roads".

Plus So Much More As Standard Just Some Of The Tools & Resources We Offer

  • Instructor Certification & Licensing
  • Student Insurance & Licensing
  • Free Instructor Qualifications
  • Safeguarding Qualifications
  • Enhanced DBS Checks
  • First Aid Training
  • Free Club Website
  • Club Management Support
  • Instructor Certification & Licensing
  • Logos & Accreditation Marks
  • SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Platform
  • Local & National Networking
  • Stock Grading Certificates
  • Free Instructor Qualifications
  • Template Documents & Forms
  • Printing & Design
  • Safeguarding Code For Martial Arts
  • Best Practice Guidance
  • Wordpress Hosting
  • a.i For Martial Arts
  • Event Management Checklists
  • Safeguarding Model Policies
  • Analytics & Tracking Tools
  • Budgeting Apps
  • Professional Webmail
  • Clothing & Uniform
  • Cyber Toolkit
  • Cash Grants & Funding
  • Risk Management Awards
  • Concussion & Head Injury
  • National Advertising
  • Entrepreneur's Support
  • Plus So Much More

Not entirely convinced?

Try us for free for 12 months, with no obligation.

There’s absolutely no obligation to commit beyond 12 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 yourself.

Thinking of switching?

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.

We have a real team based out of a real office.

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.

HQ

BMABA. Suite I & K, The Old Bakery, Golden Square, Petworth. GU28 0AP

Registered Office

BMABA, 132 City Road, London. N1 6AD

Servicing Office

BMABA, International House, Woolwich House, 61 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HZ

The UK's Leading and Largest Multi-Style Trade Body For Martial Arts

BMABA Limited T/A British Martial Arts & Boxing Association
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Servicing Office: International House, Woolwich House, 61 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HZ
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Emergency Services, Armed Forces and NHS front line staff are all entitled to 10% discounts across all of our memberships for live. This applies to all ex-serving armed forces and emergency workers too.

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