Get ready for Martyn's Lawfrom £1.33 a week.
Procedures, staff training and sign-off, drill logs and an evidence pack, all in one place. Plain English, built for pubs, halls, churches and small teams.
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- Four procedures drafted for your venue
- Staff QR training and sign-off
- Quizzes and drill logs
- Dated evidence pack
- Reminders and calendar
- Photos and incident log
- Event and hirer checklists
- Shareable preparedness record
Smallprint helps you prepare and keep records. It does not make anyone compliant, and the person responsible for the premises stays responsible. Terms apply.
Built for pubs and the rooms people hire.
A busy bar, a function room upstairs and a small stage all need different plans. Smallprint drafts your procedures around your own layout and your own team.
Hundreds of thousands of venues will need to show their working.
Sources: Home Office impact assessment and the statutory guidance published April 2026. Enforcement dates and details may change.
Your team reads their part on their phone. You keep the proof.
Each person gets their own QR code. They read what to do in an emergency, take a two-minute quiz and sign off. No app, no account, no training day. You get a dated record for every one of them.
- Works for bar staff, volunteers and casual shifts
- Translated cards for staff who read better in another language
- Reminders when someone is due a refresher
From "where do we start?" to a record you can show.
Check
Find out which tier you are in with the free checker, and who counts as the responsible person.
Build
Answer questions about your building. Smallprint drafts your four procedures, with message scripts for WhatsApp and PA announcements.
Brief
Send staff and volunteers their procedures. They read, take a short quiz and sign off. You see who is outstanding.
Prove
Log drills with photos, set annual reviews, and export one evidence pack whenever someone asks.
The whole job, not just a template.
Templates are a start. Smallprint adds the part regulators and insurers actually ask about: proof that people were briefed and procedures were practised.
Procedure builder
Evacuation, invacuation, lockdown and communication, generated from a short questionnaire about your building and shaped to your roles, exits and safer areas.
Staff sign-off and quiz
Timestamped acknowledgement, a short quiz and completion tracking for every person.
Drill log with photos
Record what you practised, who took part and what you learned, with dated photos.
Review reminders
Annual reviews, plus prompts when your layout, capacity or events change.
Inspector-ready evidence pack
One PDF with your procedures, sign-offs, drills, reviews and a full version history. Export it in a click when an inspector, insurer or trustee asks.
Many venues, one view
A dashboard across all your venues, with one consolidated pack. Extra venues are £39 a year or £4 a month each.
Security and incident logs
Keep your own record of checks you carry out and anything that happens.
Signage and QR posters
Printable notices for exits and safer areas that link to the right procedure.
Hirer briefing sheets
Give anyone hiring your hall a short sheet to read and sign before their event.
Regulator notification tracker
Records and reminders for notifying the SIA, updated as the regulator publishes its process.
Flat prices a village hall committee can approve in one meeting.
No setup fees. No per-user charges. Cancel monthly plans any time.
Founding members: the first 100 venues pay £69 a year for the Venue plan, locked in for life.
Claim a founding placeVenue
One venue, 200 to 799 people.
- Four procedures, built for your venue
- Unlimited staff, sign-off and quiz
- Drill log with photo evidence
- Review reminders
- Evidence pack PDF export
- Security log, incident log, signage, hirer sheets
Extra venues
Add each further venue to your account.
- Everything in Venue, for every site
- Each venue has its own plan, staff and records
- Annual: £39 a year each (founding £27)
- Add or remove venues any time
Enhanced
Venues of 800 or more. Coming soon.
- Everything in Venue
- Risk assessment templates
- Security plan builder
- Physical measures log
- Named senior individual record
We publish our prices. And theirs.
Every Martyn's Law platform we could find with a published price, checked between 22 October and 3 November 2026. Each name links to the provider's own page, so you can check for yourself.
| Provider | Published price | What the price covers | Check it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smallprint | £99 a year (founding £69), or £9 a month | One venue, unlimited staff. Each extra venue £39 a year (founding £27) or £4 a month. | This page |
| Martyn's Law Software | Starter £19 a month, Standard £29 a month, Chain £79 a month | Starter and Standard cover one venue each. Chain covers 2 to 10 venues. Annual billing is 20% less. | Their pricing |
| Standard Tier | £18 a month (listed as usually £38) | One venue, unlimited staff and volunteers. Extra venues £18 a month. 30-day free trial. | Their site |
| Vigil | Not published | Compliance software for venues. Pricing on request. | Their site |
| SIM Martyn's Law Manager | £50 to £5,000 per licence per month | Enterprise risk and compliance system, listed on the government's G-Cloud marketplace. | G-Cloud listing |
| Martyn's Law Learning | £92 + VAT per learner | Training courses, not a records platform. Charged per person. | Their site |
| Free government resources | Free | Home Office template and free ProtectUK training. No sign-off tracking, drill log or evidence pack. | ProtectUK |
Prices checked between 22 October and 3 November 2026 from each provider's public pages, and they may have changed. We cannot see prices that providers do not publish. This compares price only, and features differ between products. Smallprint prices are launch prices.
No per-person fees and no add-on modules. Unlimited staff and volunteers on every plan.
Procedures, sign-off, drill log, review reminders and an evidence pack, not just a document.
Regulation help that fits a small business budget. Extra venues are just £39 a year or £4 a month each.
Written for volunteer treasurers and hall committees, not security professionals.
Never claims you are compliant, and says so on every page.
Documents carry a version history and are updated when the guidance changes.
What Smallprint is. And what it is not.
You should know exactly what you are buying.
What it is
- A preparation and record-keeping tool built around the Home Office statutory guidance.
- Plain-English procedures that you adapt to your building and your people.
- Dated records that show what you did, who knew, and when you last reviewed it.
What it is not
- Legal advice. Speak to a solicitor about your own situation.
- A promise that you comply. The responsible person stays responsible.
- Endorsed by the Home Office, the SIA or the Martyn's Law campaign.
Answers before you ask.
If your venue or event can hold 200 people or more at once, the Act applies and you will need four procedures in place and to notify the Security Industry Authority. Use the free checker above, and read the Home Office statutory guidance for how capacity is measured.
No. Smallprint is a preparation and record-keeping tool. It does not give legal advice and does not make anyone compliant. The responsible person stays responsible for meeting their duties.
Enforcement is expected from spring 2027. Dates can change, and we update the product and tell customers when the regulator publishes anything new.
It is designed for people who give a few hours a month. You answer a short questionnaire, send briefings, and log drills. Everything is in plain English.
In the UK. Floor plans and security details are sensitive, so access is controlled, every edit is logged, and we provide a data processing agreement.
Monthly plans can be cancelled at any time. Smallprint is free until 1 March 2027. You add a card to secure your place, nothing is taken before then, and you can cancel before it. If you go straight to a yearly plan without using the free period, you get a 30-day money-back guarantee. You can export your records before you leave.
Be the venue that has it sorted.
Set up your first venue in about 15 minutes. Free until 1 March 2027, and the founding price is yours for life.
Or check whether the law applies first. Larger venue (800+)? Register below and we will point you to the right help.