BMABA Student membership goes beyond just insurance. When we refer to student insurance, we’re referring to a combined student insurance, licensing and membership package which brings together all aspects of student management into a single registration.

Student insurance (often referred to as ‘member to member’, ‘student indemnity’, ‘student licenses’ or other variations thereof albeit it not all being accurate) is a type of cover designed to afford protection to students in the event of an incident within your club. Specifically when looking at student public liability (which is the type of cover provided with standard ‘student insurance') it provides compensation to a third party if a student is found liable for damage to property or injury to a person, in line with the policy.

In a nutshell, named student cover is the 'traditional' method of registering and insuring students. It provides a permanent record and student licence number that remains, even if the student leaves the club or their cover expires. It's considered ideal for clubs that want to keep membership and licencing on our system and not in-house, and it also provides access to a number of key student resources.

Named Student membership is fixed, meaning you need to declare the name and date of birth for each student in advance. Once assigned, there is no way to recycle or re-use that cover if the student leaves. The upside is you can use permanent tools - such as our Lifetime Student Grade Register (LSGR) for named students, which is not possible with open allocation students. You can also use tools to produce on-demand licence slips and membership certificates (see further down), as well as our team producing permanent PDF records for you.

The insurance is exactly the same as with open allocation students. All cover by default includes £1,000,000 Public Liability insurance, with the optional ability to add on Personal Accident cover.

As always, we fully recommend reading through the full policy documents to make sure you understand what you're covered for, and what you're not. No insurance automatically pays out and it's really important you understand the mechanics of cover properly before relying on this. We're always on hand and happy to help if needed.

Click here to view the full policy documents.

Most claims will arise from a loss of income following an injury. If our students need their physical health to earn money, and pay the rent etc, you should ensure they've considered the potential impact of an injury causing time off work before they continue in your club. We have a template article you can use which asks students to consider how any injury might impact their financial circumstances, and asks them to consider approaching standalone insurers who can offer enhanced loss of income cover if it's needed. Asking a student to sign this can help you if you need to defend the exclusion of personal accident.

You can access the template documents in MyBMABA, here.

You can view and manage your named students from the MyBMABA Portal. The link is below;

You can register named students online or via the MyBMABA App at any time. Using the link below, you can register any number of licences without student details being required. As soon as your order completes (this is not yet automated) you'll have the allocations available for use at any point.

As soon as your registration order completes, you'll see this on the named student portal page;

This is now immediately available for use 24/7 from your end, without any further input from our team. You can register new students or renew existing students based on the available allowance.

After pressing 'Add New' you'll see the new student modal;

Simply enter their name and date of birth, and create the licence. The new student is immediately active, and should appear on your portal within 30 seconds. You may need to refresh your browser to see their licence.

When you're ready to renew named students, you should purchase more slots per the above process. As soon as your order completes, you'll see the allocations available for use in the portal.

To renew a licence, simply highlight them in the portal, and then press 'renew' from the allowance section. Complete the on-screen confirmation, and within a few seconds the licence will have automatically refreshed.

If you're within 7 days either side of the renewal, it should honour the current dates. If not, it will start a fresh one year period of membership.

If you have any bulk renewals to be actioned, please download to CSV (using the button at the top of the table) and share with us, highlighting those to be moved forward. The team are happy to help.

Student documentation can be generated immediately by selecting a named student and pressing 'Generate Certificate & Licences' (Purple button, along the top of the table). Within a few seconds, there should be a PDF download generated.

Some basic changes, including things like style practiced, grade held or medical information, can be completed from the 'See & Edit Full Student Profiles' section. Start by typing the student name, which should bring them up in the results;

Select them, and press 'View Student Record'. This will open a detailed drop down of student information.

Certain fields, like NOK, medical, SENCO, Safeguarding, Grades and so on are all available for you to update as required. Just remember to press 'Save Changes' before moving off the student record. If you require any locked fields updating (for example, updating DOB) please let the team know on web chat.

Immediately on loading, you'll see a snapshot of student data. This is only showing data based on the students loaded below, in your student table. If you have more than 200 records it may not be fully reflected in the statistics. These stats are just here to help with some basic 'top level' insights.

All cover is based on the default of £1,000,000 Public Liability. The option to upgrade this to £2,000,000 or £5,000,000 exists during registration, as does the option of personal accident too. Please refer to our Group Cover policy for the full policy wording, conditions, and cover.

The named student portal has lots of built in functionality. The three icons to the left of the table will illuminate based on any medical, safeguarding or SENCO information entered by you. This information can be added via the 'See & Edit Full Student Profiles' function mentioned above (here).

Clicking any illuminated icon will show the summary information.

We also show an ADULT or CHILD colour tag based on the student date of birth. You can use the row of four buttons (Safeguarding Register, Medical Register, SEN Register and Upcoming Student Renewals) to view more detailed logs.

The function to download to CSV exists too - you'll find this above the table.

You don't need to register students one by one as they're due. Instead, you can register any number of blocks of cover without student details, to have this loaded up to your portal ready to use at your convenience.

Any pre-paid licences do not expire, and will not 'go live' until you activate or renew students from the portal, so there's no rush to do so and no pressure to register or renew based on a student's current dates of cover.

It's more economical to purchase a block of student cover at once, to secure the best 'unit cost' for student cover. You can choose to pay monthly, but there is a small additional cost for doing so. All of our named cover is discounted based on bulk. You'll find the summary pricing below. If you'd like to purchase a block of students, please do so online or contact the team via chat or [email protected] and we can assist.

Here's confirmation of pricing;

As is the case with all insurances, you must promptly report any injuries to persons, or damage to property, that may be likely to lead to a claim. If you're in any doubt, please report it without delay. Any incident that requires an accident log-book entry should absolutely be reported to us. Do not admit liability, and if contacted by a solicitor, refer them to BMABA.