Every duty. One board
Eight questions about your venue and GigXchange builds your compliance checklist — fire, health & safety, licensing, insurance, Martyn's Law and more — ranked by what the law requires, every item linked to its official source.
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Last updated: 7 July 2026
How it works
From “what are we forgetting?” to a prioritised, sourced to-do list in minutes.
Eight quick answers
Venue type, capacity, alcohol, food, staff, premises control, data, events — that's everything the checklist needs to fit itself to you.
Law first
Items arrive ranked — required by law, strongly advised, best practice — with the outstanding legal count on the ring until it's zero.
Tick, source, sort
Each item links to the authority that owns it — HSE, gov.uk, ICO, ProtectUK, your council. Progress saves on your device.
Export the PDF
A branded PDF of the list — current ticks or a blank walk-round version — for the office wall or the duty manager's clipboard.
Everything on the board
Built so compliance is a checklist you work through, not a fog you worry about.
Your venue, not a generic list
Eight questions — venue type, capacity, alcohol, food, staff, premises control, data, events — build a checklist of only the items that apply to you.
Law first, always
Every item is ranked: required by law, strongly advised, or best practice. You see the legal must-haves before the nice-to-haves.
Ten compliance areas
Fire safety, health & safety, licensing, insurance, crowd & security, noise, food, data protection, accessibility and counter-terrorism — one board.
Martyn’s Law included
The checklist tracks newer duties like Martyn’s Law (Terrorism Protection of Premises) alongside the classics — with ProtectUK linked.
A ring you can show the boss
Tick items off and the compliance ring fills — with the count of outstanding legal must-haves in plain sight until it hits zero.
PDF for the office wall
Export your tailored checklist as a branded PDF — your current state or a blank version for a walk-round with the duty manager.
Every item sourced
Each line links to the authority that owns it — HSE, gov.uk, ICO, ProtectUK, your local council. Nothing to take on faith.
Picks up where you left off
Your answers and ticks are kept on your device, so the Friday walk-round continues Monday without starting over.
Compliance is a list, not a vibe
Most venues aren't non-compliant on purpose — they just don't have the map. This is the map.
The fog is the problem
Ask a venue manager if they're compliant and the honest answer is usually "…mostly?". The duties are scattered across a dozen authorities — HSE for health and safety, the fire service, the council for licensing and noise, the ICO for data, ProtectUK for terrorism preparedness — and no single official page lists what applies to your room. The checklist's job is exactly that assembly: eight answers in, one prioritised board out.
Tailoring is what makes it usable
Generic compliance lists fail because they're written for every venue at once — the 2,000-cap club items drown the ones your 150-cap pub actually owes. Answering eight questions filters the board to duties that genuinely apply: no kitchen, no food-registration item; hired hall, different fire responsibilities than a controlled premises. Shorter list, all signal.
Priority is a legal category, not an opinion
Every item carries one of three tags: required by law, strongly advised, or best practice. That's triage you can defend — the ring keeps the outstanding legal count in your face until it's zero, and the advisories wait their turn instead of competing for attention.
Newer duties don't announce themselves
Fire risk assessments are folklore by now; Martyn's Law isn't yet. The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act brings preparedness duties to public venues scaled by capacity, and it's precisely the kind of obligation that surfaces at licence-review time if you've never heard of it. The checklist includes it where your answers make it relevant, linked to the official ProtectUK guidance.
Make it a habit, not a panic
Progress persists on your device and exports as a branded PDF — current state for the file, a blank version for the quarterly walk-round. Pair it with the Licensing Checker for the music-specific licences, then get back to the fun part: filling the stage. More on the venue side: GigXchange for venues.
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