Find out in two minutes whether the new rules apply to your church. If they do, we turn the official guidance into a plan for your building, worked around your volunteers, and keep you ready for inspection.
Four steps, and we do most of the work: find out whether the rules apply to you, build a plan for your building, get your welcomers and stewards trained, and stay ready for inspection.
Many churches stay under the 200-person limit week to week, but a Christmas or Easter service, a big wedding or a funeral can take you well past it. Our quick, no-email checker walks you through the official tests to give you a straight answer, and a printable record of your status, in just two minutes.
We give you a brief questionnaire that any churchwarden or administrator can answer, no security expertise needed. The result is a full plan that pulls in the government guidance but is written for your church: who interrupts a service, where the congregation moves if the danger is outside, and which doors secure from inside.
Churches run on volunteers who change with the rota. We generate printable cue-cards with the exact scripts for your welcomers, sidespeople and stewards to read and sign. Every read-confirmation is logged and matched to your latest safety plan, so compliance stays effortless.
We keep your whole compliance record in one place: your recorded standard tier, your finished procedures, and your prepared regulator notifications. And we nudge you when the official guidance changes or an annual review is due, so nothing slips.
Not sure any of this applies to you yet? Whether your church is in scope comes down to one thing: how many people are in on your busiest service.
It depends on your busiest realistic service, not an average Sunday. If you'd reasonably expect 200 or more people at once (congregation, clergy, choir and volunteers) at least from time to time, your church is in the Act's standard tier. Many smaller churches stay under that; festival services, weddings and funerals often don't.
Places of worship stay in the standard tier whatever their size (para 4.28). Even a cathedral or large mosque holding well over 800 never faces the enhanced duties, only the four standard-tier procedures.
What the standard tier means →A quiet weekly congregation doesn't save you. Christmas and Easter services, weddings and funerals that predictably pass 200 put you in scope, because "from time to time" is the legal test.
The "from time to time" rule explained →The duty sits with the responsible body, the PCC, trustees or management committee, but in practice one named person owns the task. The service is built for that person, no security background assumed.
Check your church in 2 minutes →Before you spend anything, with us or anyone else, here's what the Act and statutory guidance actually say about the standard tier:
Your denomination may already offer advice, and the Church of England and Ecclesiastical Insurance have published guidance worth reading. What we add is certainty: a plan you know matches the official guidance, written for your building, with proof your volunteers were made aware.
No. Places of worship are a named category in the Act. If 200 or more people are ever expected at once, your church is in scope, in the standard tier. If your biggest realistic service still stays under 200 including clergy, choir and volunteers, you're out of scope. Either way, keep a dated note of how you counted (para 4.25), and the checker gives you exactly that.
No. Places of worship stay in the standard tier whatever their capacity (para 4.28). Even a cathedral or large mosque that regularly holds well over 800 never moves up to the enhanced duties. You only ever need the four standard-tier procedures.
The duty falls on whoever controls the premises, which for most churches is the responsible body itself, the PCC, trustees or management committee. In practice one named person, often a churchwarden or administrator, owns the task day to day. The service is built for exactly that person: no security background assumed.
No, because the law doesn't. The standard tier requires procedures, not equipment or personnel, and the guidance states it is not mandatory to use third-party products or services to comply (para 6.7). Nothing here asks a church to spend on kit it doesn't have.
Want the full legal detail? Read our guide to the standard tier or the whole-Act FAQ.
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Written by the Martyn's Law Plan team, based on the statutory guidance published under the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025. Last reviewed: . General information, not legal advice.