Martyn's Law, sorted in an afternoon.
A straightforward tool that produces the Martyn's Law paperwork your venue will need before the SIA begins enforcing it in April 2027. No consultants. No 50-page PDFs.
Join the waitlist Founding members pay nothing. No card required.If your venue holds 200 or more people, this applies to you.
In April 2025, the UK passed the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act — commonly known as Martyn's Law. From April 2027 the Security Industry Authority will start checking that venues above 200 capacity have a written public-protection plan: how you'd evacuate, shelter in place, lock down, and communicate in an emergency. You'll also need a named responsible person, staff who've been trained, and a file of evidence you can hand over if asked.
If you run a village hall, a church, a community centre, a pub with a function room — anything between 200 and 799 capacity — this is now your job. The official guidance is dense and long. Most small venues have nobody to delegate it to.
The responsible person carries personal liability: unlimited fines and up to two years in prison for serious breaches. Not a pleasant sentence to read. Worth knowing before you put it off.
What the tool actually does.
You answer questions about your venue — capacity, layout, who's responsible, who works there. It turns your answers into the documents the SIA will ask for and keeps them up to date.
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Works out whether you're in scope, and at what tier
A short set of questions covers capacity, entrances, opening hours, and how public and staff areas overlap. You get a clear answer — Standard, Enhanced, or not in scope — and a record of how that conclusion was reached.
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Drafts your procedures so you don't have to
Evacuation, invacuation, lockdown and communication procedures are pre-written for your venue type and then filled in with your entrances, assembly points, and nearest safe area. You get a wall poster, a pocket card for staff, and a full policy document — all editable.
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Tracks who the responsible person is
Name, contact, role, and training status are recorded. If they leave, the tool prompts you to appoint and notify a replacement. The SIA notification is produced for you.
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Keeps a clean training record for every staff member
Import your staff list, assign training, track completion, re-train on a schedule. Certificates are issued per person. Volunteers count.
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Produces the evidence pack, when you need it
One click gathers everything — tier decision, procedures, training records, responsible-person appointment, review history — into a dated PDF. This is the thing you hand an inspector.
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Reminds you to review it once a year
Eleven months after you finish, the tool asks what's changed: new staff, new manager, refurbishment, different capacity. Affected documents are regenerated and the review is logged.
Who it's built for.
Small UK venues without a compliance department — which is most of them. If you've just realised the law applies to you and you've no idea where to start, this is for you.
Where the work is right now.
This isn't ready yet. Here's the plan, honestly laid out.
Interviews, not code
Thirty conversations with people who actually run venues. No software has been written.
Private beta
Twenty founding members try the MVP for free. Their feedback shapes the first release.
Open to everyone
Founding-member pricing for the first hundred venues. £149/year afterwards.
Enforcement begins
Customers who signed up early already have a complete, up-to-date evidence pack.
Small venues deserve a tool that doesn't cost four figures or require a consultant. Before writing any code, we want to hear from the people who actually run these places — village-hall trustees, church wardens, pub landlords, gym owners. Tell us what you're up against, and we'll build something that actually helps. Founding members get it free, for good.
— the team
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