Your Martyn’s Law procedures, written for your venue
Answer 20 questions about your building and how it runs. We write your evacuation, invacuation, lockdown and communication procedures around your own doors, rooms and people, with a one-page staff briefing and your notification details set out for you.
- £295 including VAT per site, no subscription
- Ready within 2 working days of your completed form
- Full refund within 14 days of delivery
For pubs, village halls, churches, restaurants, shops and schools with 200 to 799 people. The checker is free and takes about two minutes.
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Get people out, away from danger inside
Steps- Pick the doors furthest from the danger. Normally the stage door E2 and the field door E3.
- Give the message out loud and on the stage microphone. Do not set off the fire alarm to start this.
- Tell people not to stop in the car park. Keep them moving and spread out.
“Everyone, please listen. We need you to leave the building now, through the doors we are pointing to.”
Check if Martyn’s Law applies to your venue
Three questions. You see the answer straight away, and you only need to leave an email if you want a copy.
We are a private company. We are not part of, or approved by, the Home Office or the SIA. The free government guidance is on GOV.UK.
What you get
A pack written for one site, from your answers, following the government’s statutory guidance. It comes as a PDF to print and keep. The sample runs to 17 A4 pages.
Evacuation
Getting people out through the doors furthest from the danger, without relying on the fire alarm or the usual assembly point.
Invacuation
Bringing people in from the garden, smoking area, pavement tables or queue, to the rooms that are safest to wait in.
Lockdown
Which doors lock and how, who holds the keys, the shutters and lights, and which doors must never be locked.
Communication
The exact words for the public and for staff, how the message goes out, who calls 999 and what they say, and who warns the neighbours.
Each procedure says when to use it, who decides and who stands in, and the steps in order, using the names of your own doors, rooms and roles. There is one of each and they are kept short, because staff need to act on them quickly.
Also in the pack
- Floor plan with exits and safer areas, drawn from your fire plan drawing if you send one
- Scope record with your headcount, how it was worked out, your tier and a review date
- Ruled-out record of anything you decided against and why, which the guidance expects you to keep
- Surroundings and neighbours covering outdoor seating, queues, the car park and the venues next door
- One-page staff briefing for the staff room wall, and a wallet card for each key holder
- Briefing register to record who was briefed and when, including new starters and the yearly refresh
- Hirer clause for halls, churches and any venue that is hired out
- Notification sheet with every detail the law asks you to give the regulator, ready for you to send yourself when its online service opens
- Grab bag checklist and links to the free government e-learning and action cards
- Adoption page with the steps from first read to yearly practice
What we don’t do
We don’t notify the regulator for you, visit your venue, or sell equipment or training. Whoever is responsible for the venue still adopts the procedures, briefs their staff or volunteers and sends the notification.
How it works
Order
Pay £295 including VAT by card. We email you the form straight away.
Fill in the form
20 questions about your building and how it runs, about 30 to 40 minutes. It saves as you go. Add your fire plan drawing if you have one.
We write your pack
Within 2 working days of your completed form. A person checks every pack before it is sent.
Check it and adopt it
If a door, room or name is wrong, tell us within 14 days and we correct it free. Then brief your staff or volunteers.
See a sample pack
Brackenford Village Hall is an invented 300-person hall with a bar hatch, a stage and a playing field behind it. Its pack is laid out exactly as yours would be.
In the sample
- The four procedures, one page each
- The staff briefing and a wallet card
- The hirer clause and briefing register
- A completed notification sheet
Wallet card, Brackenford Village Hall
Danger inside: out by E2/E3. Not the car park. Keep walking.
Danger outside: bring in via E1/E3, then lock.
Lockdown: E1 latch and bolts, E4 thumb-turn. Stage end, quiet.
The whole pack opens straight away, no email needed. All names, numbers and the address in it are made up.
Price
- Your four procedures and everything else listed above
- Ready within 2 working days of your completed form
- Free corrections for 14 days after delivery
- One free update to match the regulator’s templates or final guidance when they are published
- A full VAT invoice
One-off payment, no subscription. After you pay, we email you the form. If you have more than one site, order one pack for each. VAT-registered? Your invoice shows £49.17 VAT you can reclaim.
Card payment is handled by Stripe, so we never see your card number. Questions first? Email hello@venueprocedures.co.uk.
You don’t have to buy anything
The government guidance is free on GOV.UK, and the SIA plans to publish free, optional templates for the standard tier. Plenty of venues will write their own procedures.
If you would rather not spend the time, we write them for you from your answers, around your building, ready to brief your staff or volunteers.
Full refund within 14 days of delivery
If the pack isn’t right for you, tell us within 14 days of delivery and we’ll refund the full £295. No questions asked.
Questions
What is Martyn’s Law?
The short name for the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025. It asks whoever is responsible for a venue where 200 or more people gather to have procedures ready for a serious incident, and to make sure the people who would carry them out know their part.
When does it start?
Not yet. The government expects it to come into force in spring 2027. The date has not been confirmed.
Does it apply to my venue?
It covers premises mainly used for a listed purpose, such as a pub, shop, hall, place of worship or school, where 200 or more people can be expected at once. From 200 to 799 is the standard tier. Places of worship, childcare and schools stay in the standard tier at any size. Use the free checker for your own answer.
How do I count the number of people?
Use the most you can reasonably expect at once on your busiest planned days, including staff and volunteers. Your fire risk assessment occupancy figure, past attendance, seats plus staff, ticket numbers or licence limits all count as evidence. A one-off crowd nobody expected does not.
Who is responsible?
Whoever controls the premises for its main use. For a tenanted pub that is the tenant, not the brewery. A hall committee stays responsible when the hall is hired out, and passes its procedures on to each hirer.
Do we need training, equipment or building work?
No. The standard tier does not ask for building work, new equipment or paid training. Your staff or volunteers do need to know the procedures and their own part in them. The free ProtectUK e-learning is worth doing, but it is not required.
Do our procedures have to be written down?
The standard tier does not insist on a written plan. The government guidance says you should write your procedures down, because without that it is hard to show they exist and that staff know them.
Who is the regulator?
The Security Industry Authority. Venues will tell it about their premises through an online service, and it will check that venues are meeting the duty.
Do you notify the regulator for us?
No. Your pack includes a notification sheet with every detail the law asks for, set out for you to submit to the SIA yourself. That keeps you in control of what is sent in your name.
What if a venue does nothing?
The regulator’s draft guidance says it will usually start by pointing a venue to the published guidance. The maximum penalty for a standard tier venue is £10,000.
What happens when the regulator’s templates come out?
Your pack includes one free update to match them, or the regulator’s final guidance if that comes first. We email you when it is ready.
Who writes the pack?
We do, from your answers to the form, and a person checks every pack before it is sent. We don’t visit your venue, so the pack is only as accurate as what you tell us. That is why you get 14 days of free corrections.
We have more than one site
Each site needs its own procedures, so order one pack per site. Each one comes with its own form.
Who are you?
Venue Procedures is a trading name of Roam Digital Ltd, a private company registered in England and Wales since 2019. You can check our record on Companies House. We are not part of, or approved by, the Home Office or the SIA. More about us.
About us
Venue Procedures is run by Roam Digital Ltd, a small UK company. We do one thing: write Martyn’s Law procedures for venues from their own answers.
A registered UK company
Roam Digital Ltd has been registered in England and Wales since 2019, company number 12004081. You can check our record, our registered office and our filing history on Companies House.
A person checks every pack
We write your pack from your form answers and the government’s statutory guidance. A person reads every pack before it is sent, and you have 14 days to ask for free corrections.
We keep up with the guidance
We check GOV.UK and legislation.gov.uk every day for changes to the guidance and the start date. Your pack includes one free update when the regulator’s templates or final guidance arrive.
Ask us anything first
Email hello@venueprocedures.co.uk with any question before you order. A person replies, usually within one working day. No sales calls.
- Company
- Roam Digital Ltd, trading as Venue Procedures
- Company number
- 12004081, registered in England and Wales
- Registered office
- Silverstream House, 45 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 6EB
- VAT number
- GB479643830
- hello@venueprocedures.co.uk
- Payments
- By card through Stripe. Full refund within 14 days of delivery.