What validation is enforced on contact and newsletter forms?

How submissions are validated and protected from spam.

Email

Validated for proper format on submit. Empty or malformed emails are rejected before reaching the database.

Optional. Accepts any reasonable format, UK or international. Stored exactly as entered.

Required on the contact form, with a sensible character limit. HTML is stripped to prevent injection.

Server-side validation runs on every submission. Suspicious patterns are rejected silently so bots don't learn what to avoid.

Download all submissions as a two-tab Excel file.

How duplicate-email handling works for newsletter forms.

Set up the signup section, find subscriber exports and understand why no email arrives.