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We're a UK based badge and merchandise company. Badges not badgers, although we love them too. bestbadges.co.uk. We help Charities and Clubs / Guiding and Scouting / Bands and Creatives / Businesses and Brands / Individual requests welcome!

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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 15h
From grassroots all the way up to the top of the pyramid, we take pride in our badges! ⚽ www.bestbadges.co.uk/shop/footbal...
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Sew on or Iron on badges for your Football Club - Best Badges
Patches for your football club! Every order is custom made - just email your logo, crest or design idea and we will do the rest.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 26/08/2026
These silver metallic button badges are so shiny, see how they sparkle! Perfect if you want to make someone feel really special. www.bestbadges.co.uk/shop/metalli...
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Metallic Button Badges - Best Badges
Create premium Metallic Button Badges with a unique metal effect. Printed on clear acetate to reveal the polished metal beneath.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 28/07/2026
Pudsey Bear, alongside skipper Jonathan Brewin and a crew of friends, has been navigating 2200 miles sailing around the entire UK, visiting towns along the way. This weekend Pudsey will reach Ipswich. Come and meet him on Sat 1st Aug at the Waterfront. You might even walk away wearing the badge!
Pudsey Bear waves ahead of his Big Bear Voyage around the UK in 2026. In the background is the yacht "Big Bear" that he will sail.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 15/07/2026
Just posted: The Definitive Guide to Enamel and Metal Pin Badges. Covers everything you could possibly need to know before ordering your own bespoke pin badges! www.bestbadges.co.uk/product-guid...
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The Definitive Guide to Enamel & Metal Pin Badges - Best Badges
Learn everything you need to know about custom enamel pin badges, including hard vs soft enamel, metal finishes, artwork, fittings and how to choose the perfect badge.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 13/07/2026
Thanks Alex! Good luck at the Fringe :) Out of Character podcast is highly recommended, a great listen! shows.acast.com/out-of-chara...
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Out Of Character with Alex Lynch: Conversations with Sketch and Character Comedians
Award-winning writer Alex Lynch interviews some of the top writers and performers from the world of sketch and character comedy.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 19/05/2026
Your designs look amazing in the final items, thank you so much @creaturecave.co.uk 😍 Really pleased you like them, we thought they were beautiful!
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 18/03/2025
A beloved childhood badge collection! Proof that your badges can carry their messages for years to come. #badgememories #badgecollecting #spiceupyourlife
Photograph of a childhood badge collection, prominently featuring the Spice Girls, Thunderbirds, Train safety, and Rollerskating.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 01/04/2026
Thank you for your badge order 🙏
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 16/01/2026
Embroidery, weaving, printing - all ways to make a patch, but which is the right choice for your design? Our blog post investigates everything you could possibly need to know in the world of fabric patches.
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Embroidered & Woven Badges: The Ultimate Guide to Fabric Patches - Best Badges
There’s something timeless about a fabric badge, a small piece of craftsmanship that carries a big impact. Both embroidered and woven badges are durable and versatile, with the intricacy of an embroid...
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 09/09/2025
Our new blog post sees the badge experts explain all when it comes to ironing on badges. Never again suffer from a peeling patch or a heat damaged hoodie!
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Top Tips for Ironing on Badges - Best Badges
At Best Badges, our badge experts have put together a list of tips to help improve the longevity of your iron on badges and how to protect the garment you are applying it to.  Here are some helpful ti...
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 22/07/2025
It can be tricky to visualise exactly how big each of our button badge sizes will be in real life. To help we have created this handy guide! www.bestbadges.co.uk/blog/2025/07...
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Button Badge Sizes: A Visual Guide
There are many different sizes of button badges at Best Badges, ranging from 25mm all the way up to 77mm. But how do you know which size you’ll need? In this blog post we’ll take you through the main ...
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 29/05/2025
Our team have been working hard to ensure that as an Official Licensee for Rotary products we keep our badge range up to date with products that are of the highest quality and also 100% compliant with current branding requirements. We hope that you like them! bestbadges.co.uk/rotary #Rotary
A new range of Rotary merchandise, including cufflinks, tie-pins and brooches.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 29/05/2025
We love these speedo badges ❤️ Thank you for trusting us with with the printing of your designs ‪@stefzinemaker.bsky.social 🙏 #illustration #speedos #badgeaddicts
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 23/05/2025
Very happy to help @songsotpeople.bsky.social 😊 #songsofthepeople #ECHR75
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katie @hopeboos.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
sooo happy my smtown london freebies were brought to life even better than i expected by @bestbadges.co.uk and so excited to give them out next month!
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 02/05/2025
A huge Thank You to the Suffolk FA for hosting the Best Badges Sunday Cup Finals last weekend! Also Thank You to Needham Market FC who hosted the finals, as well as the players, officials, and of course the fans who enjoyed some great entertainment. #athrivinglocalgame
The photo shows Richard Maydell (left) of Best Badges Interim is pictured being presented with his ball by Suffolk FA Interim CEO Phil Lawler (right) at the 'Suffolk Super Sunday' when three of the finals were held at Needham Market FC last Sunday. An amateurly applied Photoshop effect shows the ball flying towards the camera.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 16/04/2025
Fun with Flags! We have just launched a range of fully embroidered flag patches. These are durable and machine washable, perfect for martial arts uniforms, bags or jackets. No signs of flagging here 🫡 #badgeaddicts
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Flag Stock Badges
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 25/03/2025
New product! Just £2 for a sample pack of each of the different enamel badge types that are possible!
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Enamel Badge Sample Pack
Purchase this Sample Pack of our Enamel Badges and receive a package of samples showing you the different variations of enamel badges Best Badges can supply.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 21/03/2025
Badge of the Day today is a woven badge for book-lovers and badge-lovers alike! #badgeoftheday #books #badgeaddicts
A woven badge featuring a stack of books with the sentence "Reading is dreaming with your eyes wide open" around the circumference.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 20/03/2025
Long live the embroidered badge! The detail is not as precise as a woven badge, but the feel is tactile and traditional. #girlguiding #badgeaddicts
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Embroidered Badges - Custom Patches
Embroidered badges are made by stitching a design onto a base cloth and have a textured feel. An overlocked border is added, or a heat cut border to allow for complex shapes. The badges are ready to ...
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 18/03/2025
A beloved childhood badge collection! Proof that your badges can carry their messages for years to come. #badgememories #badgecollecting #spiceupyourlife
Photograph of a childhood badge collection, prominently featuring the Spice Girls, Thunderbirds, Train safety, and Rollerskating.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 12/03/2025
The advantages and disadvantages of seven popular types of keyring - (we all know that keyrings are really badges with a split ring added, right?) www.bestbadges.co.uk/blog/2025/02...
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Seven keyring types to help spread your message
The features of seven types of keyring listed and explained
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 03/03/2025
Badge of the day: Cat on Books! #badgeoftheday #cats #books
A badge with a lovely watercolour style illustration of a cat laying on top of two books.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 26/02/2025
Lovely to be visited by St Elizbeth Hospice as part of the immense Thank-a-Thon yesterday! 70% of funds for the Hospice are raised by fundraising every year, reflecting amazing efforts from thousands of people. www.facebook.com/Stelizabethh...
Chloe Lock, Community Fundraiser for St Elizabeth Hospice, visits Best Badges as part of the immense Thank-a-thon in February 2025.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 25/02/2025
The complete joy of receiving a hand written letter is unmatched! Thank you so much @letterappsoc.bsky.social ❤️❤️
A hand written letter received from The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society! Beautiful envelope and postcard with a personal message.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 19/02/2025
Animals always make the cutest pin badges! #enamelpins
A selection of soft enamel pin badges of cartoon animals, showcasing the fun and creativity of enamel pins.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 14/02/2025
Reward, recognise, or celebrate! We all need a bit of appreciation sometimes 😊
A selection of recognition pin badges, from a 100% Attendance badge in the foreground to Tropy and Rosette badges in the background. All are stamped metal badges, in bronze, silver or gold variants.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 13/02/2025
Badge of the Day is a bespoke soft enamel pin badge! Any shape is possible with enamel badges, the only limit is your imagination 💭💭 #badgeoftheday
A soft enamel pin badge in the shape of a stack of three books. The letters CRA are on the front cover of the top badge.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 12/02/2025
Badge of the Day today is a friendly looking orca whale rendered in flexible soft PVC. The perfect material for fun designs and tactile badges. #badgeoftheday #badgeaddicts
A soft PVC badge in the shape of a cartoon orca whale, using black, white, pink and pale blue PVC colours.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 10/02/2025
What is the difference between woven and embroidered badges? www.bestbadges.co.uk/blog/2025/01...
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What are the differences between woven and embroidered badges?
Learn the advantages and disadvantages of woven and embroidered badges.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 06/02/2025
We have recently updated an article which over the last decade has been one of the most read explanations of the different types of enamel badges! Hopefully the article retains its clarity, and can be helpful for another ten years. www.bestbadges.co.uk/blog/2025/01...
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Best Badges - explaining the differences between hard and soft enamel
The advantages and disadvantages of hard and soft enamel.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 05/02/2025
Today we have an enamel pin for Badge of the Day! The shape of enamel badges is completely bespoke to every order, so you can really let your imagination flow. This badge is highly successful because while the shape is unusual the design itself is simple and striking in white enamel and silver.
Blues, Rhythm & Rock Festival pin badge. The badge is in the shape of a blues guitar, with the lettering arranged to fill the silhouette space.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 04/02/2025
Badge of the day today showcases the beauty of embroidery, with thickly stitched concentric circles of colour. The inside blue circle is actually the background fabric, and the outer red circle is the overlocked border. Great message and a great badge! #badgeoftheday #nevernotlearning
Colourful embroidered badge featuring the slogan "Never Not Learning" stitched with a background of concentric circles in different colours.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 31/01/2025
The Best Badges offices feature a mural painted by the amazing artist Mr Millerchip (also our dear friend!) Even on a grey late January day the mural inspires our creativity. Find Joel on Instagram: www.instagram.com/joel_millerc...
Image show a part of the mural that decorates Best Badges offices. The section shows a bearded figure operating a badge machine with a small dog by his side.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 30/01/2025
If you are choosing between woven and embroidered as the type of badge to order, one key consideration is the text on your badge. Embroidery may require smaller lettering to be enlarged or changed to a blocky font. If you need your lettering small and true to the original font, then choose woven.
Graphic showing the difference in font rendering possible with embroidered versus woven badges. Woven allows for finer detail at smaller sizes, so complicated fonts are possible at smaller sizes than can be achieved with embroidery.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 28/01/2025
Badge of the day is an antique - not certain of the exact date of manufacture, but was gifted to us as part of a blanket collection from 1973! A wonderful pin! #badgeoftheday #girlguiding
A Girlguiding pin badge from 1973. The badge features the trefoil shape in blue with a gold surround.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 24/01/2025
Hmm, to epoxy or not to epoxy my soft enamel badge, that is the question! Without the epoxy: a tactile badge with raised metal lines and colour at a lower level. Feels nice to the touch. With the epoxy: a smooth surface finish with protection for the enamel. Feels very polished. 🤷
Two soft enamel badges are pictured with details of them picked out and magnified. The left side badge has no epoxy coating applied while the right side badge does have the coating. Without the coating you can see the ridges of metal and the enamel recessed at a lower level. With the coating the surface is smooth and very slightly convex.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 23/01/2025
Badge of the day today is this superbly detailed enamel pin badge promoting school safety! #badgeoftheday #enamelpins
A soft enamel pin badge promoting School Safety. The design features a scene of a small school with trees behind, and in front a school crossing sign. The words SAFER SCHOOL appear large at the base of the badge.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 22/01/2025
The fascinating world of fabric badges and the borders they can have! If you are thinking about ordering patches but find the terminology of merrow borders and laser cut borders slightly baffling, then this guide should make everything clear!
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What types of border can embroidered or woven badges have?
What is the difference between an overlocked and a heat cut border?
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 21/01/2025
Rotarians can be assured in purchasing that we are a licensed supplier of Rotary merchandise. We have a PDF brochure for download on the page linked below.
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Rotary - Licensed Rotary Merchandise
Buy from a licensed supplier of Rotary merchandise.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 20/01/2025
Get your skates on! 🛼 #badgeoftheday #girlguiding
An embroidered badge for 1st St Helens Auckland Rainbows and Brownies. The design features a rollerskate with the words "Get you skates on" stitched over.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 17/01/2025
Huge thank you to everyone working in customer service roles today! Our team here are genuinely amazing! #customerservice #itsnicetobenice
A black and white photo shows a pin badge fixed to clothing. The badge is the logo of "best badges" in white, with the badge being cut to shape following the contours of the letters.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 17/01/2025
If you are involved in the music industry and operate in or around Suffolk, this new resource could be invaluable. Anything you might need from touring support to room hire. And it's free to use, with no adverts, no forced sign-ups, no paid promotions, nothing sneaky - just a really good thing!
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Home - suffolkmusicindustry.com
Suffolk has a strong network of music industry professionals and services. This directory will show you what is on your doorstep and that you don’t need to go to London or another big city. This direc...
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 16/01/2025
Today's badge is one for the book lovers! #badgeoftheday #booksky
A bookworm enamel pin badge. Design is an open book with a cartoon worm, and the lettering BOOK WORM.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 15/01/2025
Badge of the day today is a square button badge! I think of it as the unruly young intruder within the civilised world of button badges, what with its new fangled corners and angles and such. #badgeoftheday #hiptobesquare
Photo of two square button badges, with a third in the background upside down to show the safety pin fitting. The artwork on the two foreground badges is in red and white, with block capital letters spelling "BRING IT ON" and "35% BONUS DISCOUNT" respectively.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 14/01/2025
Badge of the day is this embroidered badge for football club Saffron Dynamo! #athrivinglocalgame #badgeoftheday
An embroidered badge for football club Saffron Dynamo. The badge features a black and white football with a bright yellow lightning bolt jagging through the centre, and the words SAFFRON DYNAMO EST. 1963 around the edge.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 13/01/2025
Enamel badges are really fun items, because every order is completely unique. The size, shape, and colours are all flexible so the designer has huge freedom to create something special. This guide runs through everything you might need to know:
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Information for designing enamel badges
We explain all of the requirements of design for enamel badges, examining the possibilities as well as the limitations.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 10/01/2025
Need promotional items that work for your charity and achieve fundraising goals? Download our guide here: www.bestbadges.co.uk/portal/web/2...
Thumbnail of PDF brochure showing fundraising and charity products including lanyards, badges, and medals. Full brochure downloadable from here: https://www.bestbadges.co.uk/portal/web/296/content/downloads/BestBadgesLtd-Charities-Fundraising-Catalogue.pdf
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 07/01/2025
A gorgeous hard enamel badge is badge of the day! This one was made for charity Cara-Friend, and shows off the bright colours and polished surface possible in hard enamel. #badgeoftheday #pinbadges
An enamelled pin badge featuring the multi-coloured logo of charity "Cara-Friend". The badge is pictured sat on a yellow background. The badge is cut to the shape of the logo, which is curved in an abstract shape.
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Best Badges @bestbadges.co.uk · 06/01/2025
Today's badge of the day is also a badge of yesterday... This is one of the first we ever made, back in the days when advertising your fax number was a cool thing to do. It's lasted quite well considering the decades that have gone by. #badgeofyesterday
A rather old button badge featuring a cartoon rendering of a face with blond hair and big smile with accompanying text giving details of bestbadges.co.uk website and fax details.
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