To be a Guardian and ‘wise counsel’ for all members.
To help protect everyone working on and attending venues and events through an agile, informed, and connected community.
Preparedness / empowerment / resilience / security
The Decision Support Centre (DSC) is a national initiative designed to support venues and events in meeting their safety and security responsibilities, particularly in light of Martyn’s Law. Our mission is to help organisations take reasonable and practical steps to protect the public, by offering clear, accessible and operationally useful resources.
At the heart of the DSC is a commitment to preparedness, compliance, and resilience. We provide a growing suite of tools including the Events & Venues Toolkit, Incident Response Playbook and, soon to come, a Responsible Persons Training programme, developed in alignment with national guidance and practical operational insight.
The DSC also manages the National Events Database, offering a strategic picture of UK event activity, and is developing a Monitoring Service to deliver real-time intelligence and risk alerts.
Our ambition is simple but vital: to help organisations of all sizes make better decisions under pressure, improve their protective posture and ultimately strengthen public safety. Whether you’re organising a local fete or managing a city-wide event, the DSC exists to ensure you’re not alone in that responsibility.
We are a team of industry experts backed up by a national and strategic monitoring system.
We maintain the National Events Database of venues and events – recording:
Once included on the database you will receive updates and intelligence periodically throughout the year.
We will act as a centralised information sharing portal between the Authorities, Insurers and organisers, providing a directory of events and venues, acting as a secure record keeper for critical information, such as site plans, training records, policies and procedures and incident reporting.
We provide a range of resources to help support compliance. See the Resources page for more information.
Coming soon:
An affordable subscription to the DSC will provide monitoring, in real-time, of event ecosystems during the build, run and breakdown phases of an event (down to and including last mile) providing a national, strategic, overwatch. Such as: Threat levels, Transportation, Networks, Public Health (including drugs and substances), Meteorology, Drones and Airspace. Keep an eye on this website for updates.
