{"id":86726,"date":"2026-08-21T13:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmaba.org.uk\/clubs\/?page_id=86726"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:37:29","slug":"martial-arts-club-management-award-cpd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bmaba.org.uk\/clubs\/uk-martial-arts-association-governing-body-instructor-membership\/martial-arts-certification-licensing\/martial-arts-club-management-award-cpd\/","title":{"rendered":"Martial Arts Club Management Award CPD"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\tClub Management Award .<\/i> Levels 1 & 2<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

You Spent Years Getting Good At Your Martial Art. Nobody Taught You The Rest Of It.<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Legal structure. Pricing. Bookkeeping. VAT. Whether your instructors are employed or self-employed, and what it costs you if you have got that wrong. None of it was on the syllabus, and all of it lands on the person who opened the club.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Two levels, fourteen lessons each. Level 1 is getting it right from the start. Level 2 is what arrives once the club is actually working.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\tWhy It Exists<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Most Clubs That Fail Do Not Fail At Martial Arts<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

They fail because the numbers never quite worked and nobody noticed until it was too late. Because the venue hire went up and the fees did not. Because an instructor was paid as self-employed for three years and then a status question arrived. Because a club crossed the VAT threshold without realising there was one.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

None of that has anything to do with how well the person teaches. It is a separate body of knowledge, it is genuinely learnable, and it is the difference between a club that lasts twenty years and one that quietly closes.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Written for martial arts clubs specifically, not adapted from generic small business training. The examples are venue hire, grading fees, term-time attendance dips and instructor cover, because those are the problems you actually have.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\tTwo Levels, Two Stages Of A Club<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

The Full Running Order For Both<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Fourteen lessons each, both ending in a final examination. Every lesson, in the order you study it.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetting it right<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Level 1: Foundations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

For anyone running a club, or about to. Sole traders, small clubs, and anyone who started teaching and worked the business out afterwards.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Legal structure, registration and insurance, what has to be in place around safeguarding and DBS before you can operate at all. Then the money: pricing, bookkeeping, and reading a simple profit and loss well enough to know whether your club is healthy. Then getting and keeping students, scheduling and venues, and the admin habits that keep you out of trouble.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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  1. Introduction to the Level 1 Club Management Award<\/li>
  2. Choosing Your Legal Structure<\/li>
  3. Registration, Compliance and Insurance<\/li>
  4. Safeguarding and DBS: What You Need in Place to Operate<\/li>
  5. Pricing Your Classes<\/li>
  6. Income, Outgoings and Basic Bookkeeping<\/li>
  7. Reading a Simple P&L and Knowing When Your Club Is Healthy<\/li>
  8. Your Club’s Identity and How to Talk About It<\/li>
  9. Marketing Channels That Actually Work for Martial Arts Clubs<\/li>
  10. Enquiries, Conversions and Keeping the Students You’ve Got<\/li>
  11. Scheduling, Venue and Equipment<\/li>
  12. Administration Systems and Data Protection Basics<\/li>
  13. Building Habits That Keep You Professional and Legal<\/li>
  14. Final Exam<\/li>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ol>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
    14 lessons<\/span>Final exam<\/span>Same-day certificate<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOnce it is working<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

    Level 2: Development<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

    For clubs that are off the ground and now facing the questions that only arrive with scale.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

    Forecasting and break-even, VAT, and the decision nobody frames properly: growth or sustainability, and which one you are actually building. Contracts, waivers and liability, GDPR in practice, and insurance in depth including what you might not have. Then the employment block, PAYE, pensions, National Insurance, and the employed against self-employed question, which is where clubs get hurt most often.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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    1. Introduction to Level 2 Club Management<\/li>
    2. Financial Planning, Forecasting and Your Break-Even Point<\/li>
    3. VAT: What It Is, When It Applies and How to Manage It<\/li>
    4. Growth Versus Sustainability: Knowing What You’re Building Toward<\/li>
    5. Contracts, Waivers and Liability<\/li>
    6. GDPR in Practice for a Martial Arts Club<\/li>
    7. Insurance in Depth: What You Have, What You Might Not, and What That Means<\/li>
    8. Employing Staff: PAYE, Employer Responsibilities and Getting It Right<\/li>
    9. Pensions, National Insurance and the True Cost of Employing Instructors<\/li>
    10. Self-Employed or Employed: Structuring Instructor Relationships Legally and Fairly<\/li>
    11. Brand Development and Community Building<\/li>
    12. Digital Marketing and Partnerships<\/li>
    13. Planning for the Long Term: The Full-Time Academy Scenario<\/li>
    14. Club Management Award (Level 2) Final Exam<\/li>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ol>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
      14 lessons<\/span>Final exam<\/span>Same-day certificate<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t
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      Employed Or Self-Employed Is The Question Clubs Get Wrong Most Expensively<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

      Level 2 gives three consecutive lessons to employment, and it is the block we would point any growing club at first.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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      PAYE and employer responsibilities<\/strong>What actually changes the moment somebody stops being a volunteer, and what you are on the hook for from that point.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
      The true cost of an instructor<\/strong>Pensions and National Insurance on top of the rate you agreed. The number in your head is almost never the number.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
      Structuring it legally and fairly<\/strong>Employment status is not decided by what the invoice says. It is decided by how the arrangement actually works, and clubs routinely get this backwards.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

      Getting this wrong is not a paperwork problem. It is back-dated liability, and it lands on the club owner personally depending on the structure chosen back in Level 1, lesson two.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t

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      \n\t\t\t\t\t\tTheory, Then The Tool<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      Knowing How To Read A P&L Is Better When Something Produces One<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      Level 1 lesson seven teaches you to read a simple profit and loss and recognise when your club is healthy. Level 2 lesson two takes it further into forecasting and break-even. Both are considerably easier when the figures already exist.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      The Finance App is included free with membership. Income, outgoings, budgeting and the numbers this course teaches you to interpret, built for club finances rather than general accountancy.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      Once the club is big enough to need help running it, the Instructor Training Pathway is how you develop the people who will. Level 2 is largely about that transition.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Finance App →<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInstructor Training Pathway →<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t