Simple, honest pricing
The check is free. Procedures are £99 a year.
No hidden fees, no per-user charges, no consultancy markup. Pay once a year and your venue is covered — procedures, staff records and review reminders included.
The Home Office's own estimate
£330
a year for a standard tier venue, almost all of it time spent by your staff. We do the paperwork for less than a third of that.
Always free
Scope checker
£0
Find out where you stand
- Full scope checker — 7 questions, instant result
- Know your tier (standard, enhanced, or out of scope)
- Written scope assessment emailed as PDF
- Plain-English summary of your legal duties
- Written public protection procedures — not included
- Staff awareness records — not included
- Annual review reminders — not included
- SIA notification assistant — not included
For one venue
Standard
£99a venue, a year
About £8.25 a month, paid yearly. Everything you need to comply.
- Everything in the free tier
- Guided wizard tailored to your venue type
- All four written procedures (evacuation, invacuation, lockdown, communication)
- A full document pack as PDF, Word and large print, with the source behind every paragraph
- Action cards for each role, wall posters, door cards, a briefing script and a notice for hirers
- Your floor plan and emergency contacts, built into the pack
- Staff & volunteer awareness log with digital sign-off
- A yearly reminder to look at your procedures again
- SIA notification assistant when the portal opens (spring 2027)
- Alerts if the statutory guidance changes
Five venues or more
Multi-site
From £49a venue
Portfolio compliance in one place
- Everything in Standard, for every venue
- Central portfolio dashboard (red/amber/green per site)
- Site manager accounts — each venue runs its own wizard
- Bulk staff awareness records across the portfolio
- Consolidated compliance report for your board or trustees
- Named account contact for onboarding and questions
- Volume pricing from 5 venues; bespoke pricing for 20+
£99 is the total — we are not VAT registered, so no VAT is added. Annual billing. If it is not what you expected, tell us within 30 days and we refund it in full. Cancel any time — your documents remain yours.
What the Standard plan actually gives you
Built around what the SIA will look for — not a generic compliance checklist.
Venue-specific procedures wizard
Answer questions about your specific building — its layout, your staff setup, your usual audience — and we generate four written procedures that reflect how your venue actually works. A village hall gets different procedures to a theatre.
SIA-inspection-ready document pack
Your four procedures come as a designed, dated document of 25 pages or so, in PDF, Word and large print, with every paragraph traced to the Act or the statutory guidance. With them come action cards for each role, posters, door cards, a briefing to read aloud, a notice for hirers, your emergency contacts and your marked floor plan. You can see your own pack before you pay.
Staff awareness log
The Act requires your staff to knowthe procedures — a document nobody's read doesn't count. Each person is emailed a link of their own. They read your procedures on their phone, answer a few questions about your building and sign by typing their name, in about ten minutes and without an account. Anyone who has not replied is reminded, and every sign-off is recorded against the exact version they read.
Annual reviews and guidance alerts
The law sets no review date. The statutory guidance suggests looking at your procedures from time to time, for example once a year, and whenever the venue changes significantly. We remind you after a year, and you can add the date to your own calendar. If the statutory guidance changes, we alert you and flag what's changed — so you're never caught unaware.
Questions we get asked
Do I really need to pay for this? Can't I just do it myself?
Yes — the Home Office is clear that the law is designed so venues can comply without paying consultants. The free scope checker tells you exactly where you stand, and ProtectUK's guidance explains what's required. What VenueCompliant adds is the time saved, the venue-specific tailoring, and the staff awareness records that prove you followed through. If you'd rather write the procedures yourself from the statutory guidance, that's entirely reasonable.
What if the guidance changes after I've generated my procedures?
We watch the statutory guidance, and what the SIA publishes, and will alert you to any material changes. Your subscription includes one review per year — if the guidance changes mid-year in a way that affects your procedures, we'll flag it and let you re-run the relevant sections at no extra charge.
Is this legal advice?
No. VenueCompliant is an independent guidance tool based on the statutory guidance published by the Home Office and ProtectUK. It is not legal advice and is not affiliated with the SIA, the Home Office or ProtectUK. For complex situations — shared premises, very unusual layouts, or venues uncertain about their tier — we recommend reading the statutory guidance directly or taking independent legal advice.
Can I cancel? What happens to my documents?
You can cancel any time, and if it is not what you expected, email us within 30days of your first payment for a full refund — no reason needed. Your generated procedures and staff awareness records remain available to download for 12 months after cancellation — your compliance paper trail is yours. We don't delete documents the moment a subscription lapses.
The SIA is publishing its own template. Why would I pay?
You may not need to. The SIA has said it will publish an optional template for standard tier premises, and nothing in the law requires you to use ours or anyone else's. A template is a document for you to fill in. VenueCompliant writes the four procedures from your answers about your building, keeps a dated record of who has read them, and reminds you when they are due a review — the part that still has to be true a year from now, after the committee has changed.
My venue is enhanced tier — can you help?
Enhanced tier requirements are more complex: they include a documented vulnerability assessment, a nominated senior individual, and potentially physical security measures. We're building enhanced tier support. Run the scope checker and we'll be in touch as it develops — we may be able to point you to the right resources in the meantime.