Find out in two minutes whether the new rules apply to your clubhouse. If they do, we turn the official guidance into a plan for your venue 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 clubhouse, get your staff and stewards trained, and stay ready for inspection.
Plenty of clubs stay under the 200-person limit day to day, but a busy function room, a packed terrace or a captain's day can tip you over. Our quick, no-email checker walks you through the official tests, including the members-only and grounds questions, 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 secretary or manager can answer, no security expertise needed. The result is a full plan that pulls in the government guidance but is written for your club: who moves members off the terrace, where people go if the danger is outside, and which doors secure from inside.
Bar staff, stewards, greenkeepers and weekend casuals all need to know their part. We generate printable cue-cards with the exact scripts for your team 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 capacity 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 club is even in scope comes down to one thing: how many people are in on your busiest day.
It depends on your busiest realistic day, not your average one. If you'd reasonably expect 200 or more people at once (members, guests and staff, terrace included) at least from time to time, your club is in the Act's standard tier. Many clubs stay under that day to day; plenty of function-hosting and event clubs don't.
The 200 includes your staff, and the whole clubhouse counts, terrace and function room included. Controlled grounds where you check people in can count too. Add up your busiest day, not a quiet round.
Check your numbers in 2 minutes →Controlling access by membership or payment doesn't put you outside the rules, the guidance says so directly (para 4.7). It also means you can't rely on the open-air sports-ground exclusion, which needs genuinely uncontrolled access.
What the standard tier means →Quiet weekdays don't save you. Weddings, captain's days and match-day crowds that predictably pass 200 put you in scope all year, because "from time to time" is the legal test.
The "from time to time" rule explained →Before you spend anything, with us or anyone else, here's what the Act and statutory guidance actually say about the standard tier:
What we sell is certainty: a plan you know matches the guidance, written for your clubhouse, with proof your staff were made aware, instead of a generic template you hope is right.
Then you don't need the service, and we'll say so. The checker is free, takes two minutes and asks for no email. If your clubhouse stays under 200 including staff even on your busiest realistic day, keep a dated note of how you counted (the guidance asks that your basis could satisfy the SIA, para 4.25) and you're done.
No. The guidance is explicit that controlling access by membership or payment does not stop premises being publicly accessible (para 4.7). A members' club that checks membership at the gate is treated like any other venue, and it also loses the open-air sports-ground exclusion, which only applies where access is genuinely uncontrolled. Your scope question comes down to the numbers in the clubhouse and any controlled grounds.
Probably, because recurring peaks count. If function hire, captain's day or a match-day crowd predictably takes you past 200 including staff, your club is in scope even if a normal Tuesday is quiet. The service builds your plan around those peak days, on the staffing you actually have, not an imaginary security team.
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). If your plan needs kit you don't have, it's the wrong plan.
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.