Martyn's Law Learning

The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, widely known as Martyn's Law, introduces a new legal duty for a huge range of UK venues and events, from independent shops and hospitality businesses through to large-scale event organisers. For many premises operators, this is unfamiliar territory: a legal requirement with real consequences for getting it wrong, but very little clear, practical guidance on how to actually meet it. Martyn's Law Learning was set up to close that gap.

What sets this training apart is who's behind it. Rather than a generic compliance provider bolting a new subject onto an existing course catalogue, Martyn's Law Learning is built and delivered by people who have spent their careers in counter-terrorism policing and protective security. That includes former police counter-terrorism specialists and experienced risk consultants who understand not just what the legislation says, but why it exists and what it's actually trying to prevent. The result is training grounded in real operational knowledge rather than a script written purely to satisfy a legal checkbox.

The Act itself splits requirements into two tiers depending on the size and nature of a premises, and Martyn's Law Learning's courses are structured around exactly that distinction. Standard Tier training covers the baseline procedures and awareness that smaller and lower-footfall premises need in place — practical steps that staff can realistically follow without turning day-to-day operations upside down. Enhanced Tier training goes further, addressing the more detailed planning and preparedness expected of larger or higher-risk venues. In both cases, the training is pitched to match the actual premises it's for, rather than delivering a one-size-fits-all course and leaving venues to work out which parts apply to them.

Because determining which tier applies isn't always obvious from the legislation alone, Martyn's Law Learning has also built a free online compliance calculator. It takes a venue through a short series of questions about capacity and use and returns a clear answer on which tier they fall under, so there's no need to commit to training before understanding what's actually required. It's a small tool, but a genuinely useful starting point for anyone unsure where they stand.

Delivery is kept deliberately straightforward. There's no dense legal language, no vague generalities, and no pressure to sign up to more than a venue actually needs — just practical training that explains what the law requires and how to put it into practice. Contracts and terms are set out clearly from the outset, so there are no surprises further down the line. This matters particularly for smaller operators who may not have in-house legal or compliance teams to interpret the legislation for them; the whole point of the training is to make that interpretation unnecessary.

Martyn's Law Learning works with venues and event organisers across the whole of the UK, whether that's a single independent premises trying to get compliant for the first time, or an organisation managing several sites with different risk profiles across each one. The training scales to fit — a small operator gets a course that respects their time and resources, while a multi-site organisation gets consistent, comparable training across every venue they're responsible for.

With the enforcement deadline for the Act now approaching, venues that haven't yet looked into what's required of them are running out of runway to do so comfortably. Getting ahead of it now, with training built on genuine security and counter-terrorism expertise rather than recycled generic content, is a far more manageable position than scrambling to catch up once enforcement begins. Anyone unsure which tier applies to their premises, or simply wanting to understand what Martyn's Law actually requires in practice, is welcome to get in touch to discuss their specific situation.