Martyn's Law, handled. In an afternoon, not a year.
If your hall, church or community venue can hold 200 people or more, you now have duties under Martyn's Law. Standfast tells you plainly whether you're in scope — then writes the four procedures, the volunteer briefing and the evidence file for you, built around your building.
Takes two minutes. No account, no card, no follow-up calls.
Written to the Act. Follows the standard-tier duties in the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025.
Plain English throughout. Written to be read aloud to a committee, not filed away unread.
One afternoon, one payment. £149 once. No subscription, no renewals, no upsell.
What the law actually asks of you
Four procedures. One notification. That's the whole of it.
Standard tier is deliberately light-touch. There's no requirement to buy equipment, hire security or fortify the building. The duty is to think it through in advance — and to be able to show you did.
Evacuation
Getting everybody out of the building safely, and knowing where they go once they're out.
Invacuation
Bringing people inside and away from the danger, when out is more dangerous than in.
Lockdown
Securing doors and windows, stopping anyone else entering, keeping people quiet and low.
Communication
How the alert is raised, who tells whom, and what is said — with no PA system needed.
Notify the SIA. The Security Industry Authority is the regulator. You register your premises and name a responsible person. We walk you through the form, field by field.
Make sure people know. Staff and volunteers need to know what to do. We give you a one-page briefing sheet to hand out and a sign-off sheet for your binder.
How Standfast works
You describe your building. We do the thinking.
Two-minute scope check
A handful of questions about your premises and how many people you expect. You get a straight answer: in scope, and at which tier — or not in scope at all, in which case we tell you so and you owe us nothing.
Start the free checkerTwenty-minute venue profile
Friendly questions, one screen at a time, with your progress always visible. Your layout, your exits, your assembly point, your typical Saturday. If you don't know an answer, you can skip it and come back — nothing is lost.
Your pack, written for your venue
Four procedures naming your actual doors, your actual car park, your actual key-holders. A step-by-step SIA notification walkthrough. A volunteer briefing sheet. An evidence binder cover page, dated and ready to sign.
Read a complete example pack“We're eleven trustees and a booking secretary. Nobody on the committee has ever written a security procedure in their life. This asked us what we already knew about our own hall and turned it into something we could actually put on the wall.”
“I was braced for scaremongering and a monthly fee. Instead it told me quite calmly that our Tuesday coffee morning was never in scope, and that the Christmas fair was. That honesty is why I paid.”
Illustrative of the venues Standfast is built for. Prototype — not real customers.
Pricing
One price. Paid once. That's the end of it.
Scope Checker
Find out in two minutes whether Martyn's Law applies to your premises, and at which tier. No email required.
- The real statutory tests, asked plainly
- Standard tier, enhanced tier, or out of scope
- An explanation of why you got that answer
- Printable summary for your committee minutes
Readiness Pack
Everything a standard-tier venue needs to be ready, tailored to your building from a twenty-minute questionnaire.
- Four procedure documents — evacuation, invacuation, lockdown, communication — written around your exits, your rooms, your people
- SIA notification walkthrough — the regulator's form, field by field, with your answers already worked out
- Volunteer briefing sheet — one page, plain English, designed to be read out in ten minutes at the start of a shift
- Evidence binder cover page — dated, signed, and ready to put at the front of the file
- Free re-generation for 12 months — change your exits or your committee, regenerate the pack
Prototype: payment screen is a mock. No card is charged.
Straight answers
Questions committees actually ask
Including the awkward one, which we've put first because you deserve to know it before you spend anything.
Is any of this paperwork actually required by law?
No — and we'd rather tell you that ourselves. At standard tier, Martyn's Law requires you to have public protection procedures in place and to notify the SIA. It does not require you to write those procedures down, and it does not mandate a documented risk assessment. That's a real difference from the enhanced tier.
So why buy this? Because “having procedures in place” still means somebody has to decide what happens on the night — which door, which field, who calls 999, who counts the children. Somebody has to work that out, get the committee to agree it, and make sure the volunteer on the tea urn knows it too. That is the work. Standfast does that work for you, and hands you the evidence that you did it — which is exactly what you'll want in front of you if an inspector, an insurer or a coroner ever asks.
If you'd rather do the thinking yourself and write nothing down, that is lawful, and we won't pretend otherwise.
What counts as “200 people”? We never sell 200 tickets.
It isn't tickets sold, and it isn't your fire capacity certificate. The test is whether it is reasonable to expect that 200 or more people may be present at the same time — and that includes staff, volunteers, performers and helpers, not just the audience.
So the question to ask is: on your very busiest day of the year — the Christmas fair, the pantomime, the wedding reception, the polling station — how many people are in that building at once? If the honest answer is 200 or more, you're in scope, even if it only happens twice a year.
Our church only gets 60 people on a Sunday. Are we really in scope?
Almost certainly not — and you may have been told otherwise. The 200-person threshold applies to churches exactly as it applies to a village hall. If fewer than 200 people are ever reasonably expected in your building at one time, Martyn's Law places no duties on you at all. A chapel with a congregation of twelve is out of scope.
Places of worship are treated differently, but only at the top end: a church expecting 800 or more people stays in the standard tier instead of being pushed up into the much heavier enhanced tier. That top-end protection is the whole of the special treatment. It does not pull small churches into scope. The same is true of schools and childcare settings.
One caution worth taking seriously: the test is your busiest realistic moment, not an ordinary Sunday. A carol service, a wedding or a large funeral can fill a church far past 200. Run the free checker with that day in mind, not with a quiet week in mind.
Who is the SIA and what happens when I notify them?
The Security Industry Authority is the regulator for Martyn's Law. Notifying is a registration, not an application — you're telling them the premises exists, who is responsible for it, and how to contact that person. You're not asking permission, and nobody inspects you as a result of notifying.
Your pack includes a walkthrough of the notification with each field explained and your answers already worked out from your venue profile, so it becomes a copying exercise.
We're volunteers. Is this going to be technical?
No. Standfast is built for parish clerks, church wardens and committee members, not for security professionals. Every question is in plain English and asks you only about things you already know — where your doors are, where people park, who holds the keys.
The finished procedures are written to be read aloud at a committee meeting and understood first time. No acronyms, no threat jargon, no scare stories.
What if we're in the enhanced tier?
If you expect 800 or more people, you're in the enhanced tier, which carries genuinely heavier duties — a documented assessment, additional public protection measures, and a designated senior individual. Standfast is not built for that, and we will tell you so rather than sell you something inadequate. The checker will say plainly that you need specialist help, and won't take your money.
One important exception. Places of worship, schools and childcare settings do not get escalated to the enhanced tier, however many people they expect. A cathedral with a thousand-strong congregation remains a standard-tier premises — and Standfast is the right tool for it. If that's you, the checker will say so.
Is Standfast legal advice?
No. Standfast is a tool that applies published statutory tests to the information you give us, and produces documents you review, amend and adopt yourself. The scope result is indicative, not a legal determination. If your situation is unusual — shared premises, a building that is sometimes a school and sometimes a polling station, mixed ownership — take advice.
Start with the free check. Owe us nothing if you're not in scope.
Two minutes, seven questions, a clear answer at the end.