British Aikido Board

The National Governing Body for Aikido in the United Kingdom.
Aikido is a martial art founded by Morihei Ueshiba, that focuses on harmonising with your opponent, it can be practiced as a sport, self defence and an art using hand to hand and japanese weapons.

Welcome to the British Aikido Board

The British Aikido Board seeks to:-

Represent the majority of bona fide organisations practicing aikido in the United Kingdom.
Support, encourage and promote the highest standards of aikido within an environment of mutual respect for offering styles practiced.
Raise awareness of the value of aikido not only as a contributor towards healthy living, but also in the development of adults, young people and children, without regard to race, gender or creed.

The British Aikido Board operates primarily through its member Associations. There are 35 currently Full Member Associations with 12 Associate and Probationary Member Associations of regional and national status, who each retain their independence, both technically and financially, with a combined membership of some 5,000 , which includes 1204 instructors holding current Coaching Awards.

The Board is recognised by Sport England , as the only governing body for aikido in the United Kingdom and is a member of the Sport and Recreation Alliance.

The Board seeks to further the advancement of all styles of aikido and to establish and monitor standards of safety and behaviour for practitioners of aikido.

The Board advises member Associations on all relevant UK and European legislation and procedures and develops appropriate policies and codes of practice.

Other services provided include:-
• Insurance cover, for members, instructors and Associations.
• Promotion of a Nationally recognised Coaching Scheme in conjunction with UK Coaching / Sport England.
• Organising a National Courses.
• Supporting initiatives to encourage the teaching of Aikido in schools.
• Publishing Newsletters and specialist information bulletins eg. Safeguarding and Coaching.

The Board has completed a number of initiatives, arising from the work of their major Governance Audit and through the adoption of a wide range of recommendations, contained in their Aikido Development Plan will support their key objective of encouraging all Aikido groups to join together under this “Aikido umbrella”.

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British Aikido Board

British Aikido Board

The National Governing Body for Aikido in the United Kingdom.
Aikido is a martial art founded by Morihei Ueshiba, that focuses on harmonising with your opponent, it can be practiced as a sport, self defence and an art using hand to hand and japanese weapons.

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Great new CPSU Video on Safeguarding

We suggested that all coaches view this safeguarding video, it is only 9 Minutes long and features some of our BAB Club Instructors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDfOsmJFpdI&feature=youtu.be

Visa Endorsement of International Teachers

Home Office Immigration Rules for the BAB – as a Sport Governing Body – to Endorse Applications from its Associations for Long-Term Visits by a Recognised International Aikido Teacher/Coach Following a successful application to the Home Office in 2017, the British…

Sensei John Cornish (Aikido and Judo) has passed away.

The BAB has been advised by James Wyatt on the 12 April 2018 the following. I thought you and your fellow members would like to know John Cornish has passed away. John Cornish started his martial art journey with…

BAB GDPR Toolkit

Please find the BAB GDPR Toolkit page. We have put together some documents that will help you prepare for the new GDPR requires that come into affect on the 25th May 2018. PLEASE NOTE THESE WILL STILL APPLY AFTER BREXIT…

The BAB Website is being updated

The BAB Website is currently under a rebuild, It should take around another two weeks (Post Dated 8th November 2019) before the site is fully functioning. Any Problems please contact the BAB Webmaster on webmaster@bab.org.uk

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