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Community Event Registration Form
A community event registration form has to work for everyone in the community, which includes the resident on an old phone with almost no data and the one using a screen reader.
For councils, agencies and public-sector teams.
Accessible by construction, not by audit
Public events attract the widest possible range of devices and abilities. A form that needs JavaScript to draw a text box excludes people, and no amount of later remediation fixes a page that never rendered.
This form is ordinary HTML: real labels tied to real inputs, native controls that screen readers and keyboards already understand, fieldsets grouping related choices, and errors named next to the field they belong to. It works with scripting switched off entirely, because that's what accessible actually means.
Know who's coming, and what they need
A name is the easy half. The awkward half - dietary needs, accessibility, emergency contacts, sizes - is the half that ruins a day when it's missing, and the half nobody thinks to send you.
So the form asks. Once, at registration, when the person actually knows the answer.
Accessible to everyone, including the people without an app
A public form has to work for the resident on a six-year-old Android with 200 MB of data left, and for the one using a screen reader. That rules out most modern form builders, which need JavaScript to render a text box.
These pages are ordinary HTML with real labels and native controls: they work with assistive technology, keyboard only, and with scripting switched off entirely.
Everybody's details, exportable
One download gives you the whole list as a spreadsheet - for a check-in sheet, a name badge run, a caterer's headcount or a mail merge. No copying out of an inbox.
Make it yours in a minute
Change the wording, drop the questions you don't need, add the ones you do, put your own colour on it. Saving publishes it, and you get a link to paste into your website, your email signature or a message. Responses land in your dashboard and download as a spreadsheet whenever you want them.
What this template asks
- Your name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Postcode
- How many adults?
- How many children?
- Children's ages
- Which event?
- Do you need any of these?
- Do you need an interpreter?
- Which language?
- Do you need help getting there?
- Any dietary requirements, if food is provided
- Anything else we should know?
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Questions
Do residents have to accept cookies?
There are none to accept. No cookies, no analytics scripts, no IP logging - so there's nothing to consent to and no banner between a resident and a public service.
Can we take registrations on paper as well?
Yes, and a member of staff can enter them through the same form so you end up with one list. That's usually better than reconciling a spreadsheet with a clipboard.
Can I stop registrations when we're full?
Yes. Close the form and the link shows a short closed page, so nobody registers for a place that doesn't exist. Reopen it in one click if space frees up.
Can I collect one registration per person or per group?
Either. Many people ask for the group size and the names in one text box; others publish the link and ask everyone to fill it in individually.
Can I get the list as a spreadsheet?
Yes - one click exports every response as CSV, which opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.
Is it accessible, and does it track people?
Forms use semantic HTML, real labels, keyboard-navigable native controls and work without JavaScript. No cookies, no analytics scripts and no IP logging - so there's no consent banner between a resident and a public service.
Publish your community event registration form today
Start from this template and change anything you like. Free to begin.