One developer, in Glasgow.

Martyn’s Law reaches about 154,600 standard-tier premises on the Home Office’s central estimate. Overwhelmingly they are parish churches, primary schools, community halls and leisure centres, run by people who already have another job and who did not ask for a new piece of legislation.

Almost everything being sold into that market is either far too heavy for it or is quietly overclaiming. Muster is an attempt at the opposite: a small tool that does the administrative half of standard tier properly, is honest about what the law actually requires, and comes with a free guide that will get you there without paying for anything.

What we will not say

We will never tell you that we made you compliant. There is currently no such thing as Martyn’s Law compliant, and Figen Murray, whose campaigning got the Act passed after her son Martyn Hett was murdered at the Manchester Arena, has said so in those words. No government body endorses any third-party product for this legislation, including this one.

We will also not tell you that standard tier requires you to document anything, because it does not. That duty belongs to enhanced tier. Records are worth keeping for practical reasons, and those reasons are good enough on their own.

Where your data lives

In the UK. Muster holds the names of your staff and volunteers and what they have been briefed on, which makes you the data controller and us the processor. There is a data processing agreement you can hand to a board, a published list of the sub-processors we use, and a full export in open formats available at any time, including after you cancel.

We target WCAG 2.2 AA. Our buyers include councils, schools and leisure trusts who are right to ask about that, and volunteers who are not all using a new laptop with perfect eyesight.

Get in touch

If something here is wrong, or you think we have overstated anything, we would genuinely rather know. Email [email protected].