Badges Plus

For nearly five decades, Badges Plus has turned emblems, names, and symbols of belonging into items people can wear, present, or keep. The company dates its beginnings to 1976, when a small family-run team worked on Albion Street in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. It expanded its production and facilities over time; since 2016, its base has been on Summer Lane, serving organizations across the United Kingdom.

Custom metal badges sit at the center of its catalog. The factory works with soft, hard, and vitreous enamel finishes, as well as die-struck, printed, three-dimensional, and button styles. Options also include pin backs, shield and bar shapes, car badges, and designs with details such as glitter. The range lets customers adapt shape, color, and finish to a school, sports club, association, or campaign emblem.

The offering also covers textile and identification products. Badges Plus makes embroidered, printed, and woven patches, along with name badges, ID badges, lanyards, and custom wristbands. For schools, the catalog includes academic, subject, house, prefect, student council, and sports team badges; for clubs and associations, it includes items that identify roles, teams, or activities.

Other products are designed as awards, keepsakes, or business gifts: medals, coins, plaques, key rings, leather key fobs, trolley tokens, and cufflinks. The company offers laser engraving on metal to personalize several of these items, including badges, key rings, cufflinks, ID products, medals, and coins. A single order can therefore combine an everyday badge with recognition pieces for a presentation or anniversary.

Customers can start with an idea or provide artwork that is already prepared. The company offers in-house design support and lets customers request a quote through its forms; the online store organizes products and finishes by type and collection. Design input can help an organization settle colors, wording, shape, and fastening before a production run. The site says it handles orders of different sizes without a general minimum order.

One practical distinction is that production takes place at the company’s own UK facilities. Its corporate information describes in-house pressing, enameling, metal finishing, packing, and distribution. That brings design guidance and several manufacturing stages together under one company, rather than limiting the business to selling finished promotional goods.

Badges Plus’s Birmingham history connects it with a craft that still serves everyday purposes: identifying members of a community and marking occasions worth remembering. Its range is relevant to schools, charities, sports teams, international organizations, and companies seeking badges, patches, or engraved pieces made around their own visual identity.