Is Four Drills for you?
Two questions come up more than any others: whether the Act applies to a venue under 200, and how this works for somebody looking after several places. Both are answered below.
Safety doesn't start at 200 people.
No duty applies to you
If your venue holds fewer than 200 people, the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 does not apply to it. There is nothing to register, nothing to notify, and no deadline. We'll confirm that free, in writing, and that record is yours to keep.
The question the law doesn't ask you
If something happened in your building tomorrow, whether a fire, a threat, or a situation outside your front door, would the person on shift know what to do? Would they know which exit to use, which room to move people into, whether to get everyone out or keep everyone in?
That question doesn't change at 200 people. The law draws its line for good administrative reasons; buildings don't work that way. Plenty of smaller venues put the same procedures in place voluntarily, because the value was never the compliance. It was the staff knowing the drill.
What a voluntary pack gives you
- Four procedures written for your building. Your exits by the names your staff use, your safer rooms, your assembly point. Not a template with someone else's fire doors in it.
- Staff and volunteers who can explain them. Everyone reads the procedures on their own phone and confirms they understand. No app, no password, five minutes each.
- A printed summary card for the wall. One page by the till: the four actions, your real assembly point, your real phrases.
- A dated record that stays true. Versioned, prompted for review once a year, and ready if your capacity ever grows past 200.
Voluntary pack
£79 /year, per venue
The same site-specific procedures and staff attestation as our Standard Tier product, adopted by choice. Prices exclude VAT.
The legal position, in small print
A voluntary pack does not place your venue under the Act and does not create a legal duty. Your pack says so on its face. Nothing here makes your venue "compliant". Compliance is a state of a building, not a property of a document. What you get is procedures that fit your premises and a record that your people have read them.
If your venue grows
If your venue grows, through a bigger licence, an extension or a busier format, your scope check re-runs in two minutes. If you cross 200, your existing answers become your Standard Tier pack. You'd be ready before the law noticed you.
Twelve village halls. Five pubs. One church and a cricket pavilion. One screen.
If you're a parish or town council, a pub group, a multi-academy trust, a diocese, or a community-buildings charity, your Martyn's Law problem isn't writing one plan. It's knowing, on any given Tuesday, which of your buildings is covered, which staff haven't confirmed, and which reviews are overdue.
- Per-site status at a glance. Scope, pack version, attestation coverage, review due date. Green means defensible; amber means click it.
- Every building assessed properly. Each site gets its own walkthrough and its own pack. No copy-pasting one hall's fire exits into another's.
- Board-ready evidence. One export per site or a portfolio summary for trustees, insurers and internal audit.
- Mixed portfolios welcome. In-scope sites on Standard, smaller ones on Voluntary, all in the same view.
Coming Staff attestation launches before duties commence in spring 2027; it's included in your price from day one.
What the dashboard shows, per site
| Scope | Standard Tier, voluntary, or out of scope, with the dated capacity assessment record behind it. |
|---|---|
| Pack version | The current version number and generation date. Every earlier version stays on record. |
| Attestation coverage | The share of that site's roster who have confirmed they've read the current version, and who hasn't. |
| Review due | The next annual review date, and whether it's approaching or overdue. |
| Notification status | Prepared, or submitted and confirmed by you. We never mark a site as notified on your behalf. |
Where we're more expensive, and why
Some competitors sell one flat account stretched across up to ten venues, and at full utilisation that's cheaper than ours. What it isn't is a real per-site assessment. We walk each building and write each pack from that building's own answers, because the regulator's test is whether the procedures make sense for the specific premises. At three or four sites we're cheaper anyway; at a dozen we're premium, and that's the reason.
What it costs across several venues
Your first two venues are each their normal price: £199 for a venue in scope, £79 for a small one. From your third venue onwards each new venue is £149 a year, and the first two stay at the price you bought them for. A small venue is always £79 wherever it comes in the order, and it still counts toward your three.
Above six venues we stop selling by the card. Write to us instead and we will come back with a figure and set them up with you.
Or write to hello@fourdrills.co.uk with how many sites you look after and we will come back with a figure.