Registering with MakingContact.org

There are now three grades of membership at MakingContact.org :

• Bronze - this is the most basic membership and permits you only to post messages to the forums. Bronze membership is free of charge and requires your name and e-mail address.
• Silver - in addition to the Bronze membership benefits, this allows you to post your story onto the site and assign it to conditions which in turn lets others find and contact you. When they do contact you, you will receive an e-mail in your regular e-mail inbox which you can reply to. Your e-mail address will not be revealed to the other member unless you do it yourself. Silver membership is free of charge and was formerly called Basic membership.
• Gold - in addition to the Silver membership benefits, this allows you to contact Silver or Gold members securely and without revealing your e-mail address. You are able to start a conversation with five different members each day. Gold membership costs £5 per year and was formerly called Enhanced membership. To become a Gold member, sign up as a Silver member and upgrade yourself once registered.

The minimum we require is your name and e-mail address. Neither will be revealed as all MakingContact.org members use unique usernames. If you want to just use the forums go for Bronze membership. To allow others to find you on this site go for Silver.

For now, simply fill in the form below and click 'Register'.

To save room on the page we use the term disabled to indicate those with disabilities, special need or a medical condition.

About you

Membership grade : Bronze (just forums) Silver (let others find me)

* Username :
This will be how you are known within MakingContact.org. Your real name will be hidden so all other members will see you listed by this username. It must be between 6 and 12 characters. We advise you don't use your real name as this will be visible to any site visitor.

* Password :
Must be between 6 and 12 characters and contain at least one number. We recommend you do not use names of people or places.

* Confirm Password :
Please enter your chosen password again. An e-mail will be sent to your registered address confirming it.

* Real Name :
This will only ever be visible to Contact a Family staff and then only for administration purposes.

* Your e-mail address :
We need a valid e-mail address, this will not be given out to anyone unless you do it. This address will be the one through which people will contact you from this site. Also any password reminders etc. will be sent here. We will never give,sell or reveal this address to anybody. Other members sending you messages will not know the address they are sending to unless you reveal it.

Silver membership

The following information is required if you want Silver membership

You can leave out or indicate that you don't want to give any of these fields but remember that the more information you give the better and easier it will be for others to find you. For example if you are a single parent and you want to be contacted by other single parents then you should show that here and others won't have to guess.

Your gender : Rather not say female male

Your location : Rather not say England Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham Essex Falkland Islands Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Lond.Bor. Barking and Dagenham Lond.Bor. Barnet Lond.Bor. Bexley Lond.Bor. Brent Lond.Bor. Bromley Lond.Bor. Camden Lond.Bor. Croydon Lond.Bor. Ealing Lond.Bor. Enfield Lond.Bor. Greenwich Lond.Bor. Hackney Lond.Bor. Hammersmith and Fulham Lond.Bor. Haringey Lond.Bor. Harrow Lond.Bor. Havering Lond.Bor. Hillingdon Lond.Bor. Hounslow Lond.Bor. Islington Lond.Bor. Kensington and Chelsea Lond.Bor. Kingston Lond.Bor. Lambeth Lond.Bor. Lewisham Lond.Bor. Merton Lond.Bor. Newham Lond.Bor. Redbridge Lond.Bor. Richmond Lond.Bor. Southwark Lond.Bor. Sutton Lond.Bor. Tower Hamlets Lond.Bor. Waltham Forest Lond.Bor. Wandsworth London (City of) London (City of Westminster) Middlesex Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwickshire Westmorland Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire (East Riding of) Yorkshire (North) Yorkshire (North Riding of) Yorkshire (South) Yorkshire (West) Yorkshire (West Riding of) Northern Ireland Antrim Armagh Down Fermanagh Londonderry Tyrone Scotland Aberdeenshire Angus Argyllshire Ayrshire Banffshire Berwickshire Buteshire Caithness Clackmannanshire Cromartyshire Dumfriesshire Dunbartonshire East Lothian Fife Inverness-shire Kincardineshire Kinross-shire Kirkcudbrightshire Lanarkshire Midlothian Morayshire Nairnshire Orkney Peeblesshire Perthshire Renfrewshire Ross-shire Roxburghshire Selkirkshire Shetland Stirlingshire Sutherland West Lothian Wigtownshire Wales Anglesey Brecknockshire Caernarfonshire Cardiganshire Carmarthenshire Denbighshire Flintshire Glamorgan Merioneth Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Pembrokeshire Radnorshire Rest of Europe Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland (Republic of) Italy Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Africa Botswana Egypt Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Morocco Nigeria Senegal South Africa Uganda Americas Argentina Brazil Canada Ecuador Falkland Islands Mexico United States of America Venezuela Asia Bangladesh China Hong Kong India Japan Malaysia Nepal Pakistan Singapore Sri Lanka Taiwan Australasia Australia Indonesia New Zealand Middle East Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Palestine Saudi Arabia Sudan Syria United Arab Emirates  
You don't have to provide a location but it will make it easier for others to find you if you do. We have found that most people using this site are searching for people in their area first.

Which language would you prefer to use? : العربية English فارس 中文 Soomaali

What other languages can you converse in? :

About the disabled person

This person may be your child, grandchild, friend or even yourself. The details listed here will be what people search on, so as much info as you can provide will help.

Their date of birth :
Their date of birth will enable users to locate people with similar aged children. Their exact date of birth will not be revealed, instead we will show only the year of their birth on public screens.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 4 digit years. Sorry this system only supports Gregorian calendar dates

Their gender : Rather not say female male

Your relationship to them : Rather not say parent grandparent brother/sister friend family member affected adult the same person

About their family

Family type : Rather not say one parent family two parent family

Number of brothers/sisters :

How many of these are disabled :

Summary and Story

Brief summary
The Summary is a brief description of your and the disabled person (i.e. your child). You can use a maximum of 256 characters here.
Please ensure any text here does not include anything contrary to our terms of use. Specifically no web links, html code, e-mail addresses or other contact info. To preserve your anonymity we advise you to not include the real name of any person or organisation.

Full story
The Full Story is where you get to say a bit more about yourself and the disabled person (i.e. your child). You can use any number of characters here.
Please ensure any text here does not include anything contrary to our terms of use. Specifically no web links, html code, e-mail addresses or other contact info. To preserve your anonymity we advise you to not include the real name of any person or organisation.