Relax, create, connect
Badge Cafe helps people relax, create and connect by coming together to make unique badges out of reused books and magazines.
Our workshops – or ‘crafty utopian hangouts’, as we call them – are easy, welcoming and fun. They’re for everyone, including people who are LGBTQ+, disabled, neurodivergent, global majority and/or have low incomes. Based in London, we run our own badge making events and bring badge making to a wide range of organisations and events too.
We’d love to make badges together soon!
(We are not an actual cafe – we don’t have our own location or serve food and drink.)
“My favourite activity in London and possibly the world”
– Badge Cafe regular
Make Badges
Details on how to join badge-making workshops in Shoreditch and many more locations.
Let’s Collab
Find out how we help partner organisations and events of all kinds in London and around the UK.
About Us
Learn about our unique format, its origins, its impact and the peer-reviewed research behind it.
Hang out with us
EVERY FRIDAY
PIMLICO FRIDAYS
PIMLICO
2-5 PM
FREE
EVERY SATURDAY
CHARING CROSS SATURDAYS
Leicester square
4-7 PM
FREE
EVERY SUNDAY
RICH MIX SUNDAYS
shoreditch
2-5 PM
pay what you like
EVERY FIRST SATURDAY
QUEERSWAP SATURDAYS
vauxhall
1-4 PM
PAY what you like
August 2026
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- WE
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- FR
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- 2Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Rich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. Our June theme is Pride. , ...- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Toilets accessible for disabled people
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- 6Reimagining Emma Cons GardensAll DayEmma Cons Gardens • SE1 8LN • free. Open-air badgemaking opposite the Old Vic as part of this pocket park’s revamp. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free
- 7Pimlico Fridays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRampayne St Community Hub • SW1V 2PU • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 8Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 9Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. Our June theme is Pride. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Toilets accessible for disabled people
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- 14Pimlico Fridays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRampayne St Community Hub • SW1V 2PU • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 15Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 16Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. Our June theme is Pride. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Toilets accessible for disabled people
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- 21Pimlico Fridays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRampayne St Community Hub • SW1V 2PU • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 22Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 23Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. Our June theme is Pride. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Toilets accessible for disabled people
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- 28Pimlico Fridays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRampayne St Community Hub • SW1V 2PU • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 29Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 30Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. Our June theme is Pride. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Toilets accessible for disabled people
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- 4Pimlico Fridays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRampayne St Community Hub • SW1V 2PU • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 5Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 6Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. Our June theme is Pride. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Toilets accessible for disabled people
Relax, create, connect
Badge Cafe helps people relax, create and connect by coming together to make unique badges out of reused books and magazines.
Our workshops – or ‘crafty utopian hangouts’, as we call them – are easy, welcoming and fun. They’re for everyone, including people who are LGBTQ+, disabled, neurodivergent, global majority and/or have low incomes. Based in London, we run our own badge making events and bring badge making to a wide range of organisations and events too.
We’d love to make badges together soon!
(We are not an actual cafe – we don’t have our own location or serve food and drink.)
“My favourite activity in London and possibly the world”
– Badge Cafe regular
Make Badges
Details on how to join badge-making workshops in Shoreditch and many more locations.
Let’s Collab
Find out how we help partner organisations and events of all kinds in London and around the UK.
About Us
Learn about our unique format, its origins, its impact and the peer-reviewed research behind it.
Hang out with us
EVERY FRIDAY
PIMLICO FRIDAYS
PIMLICO
2-5 PM
FREE
EVERY SATURDAY
CHARING CROSS SATURDAYS
Leicester square
4-7 PM
FREE
EVERY SUNDAY
RICH MIX SUNDAYS
shoreditch
2-5 PM
pay what you like
EVERY FIRST SATURDAY
QUEERSWAP SATURDAYS
vauxhall
1-4 PM
PAY what you like
August 2026
- MO
- TU
- WE
- TH
- FR
- SA
- SU
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- 1
- 2Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. Our June theme is Pride. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Toilets accessible for disabled people
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6Reimagining Emma Cons GardensAll DayEmma Cons Gardens • SE1 8LN • free. Open-air badgemaking opposite the Old Vic as part of this pocket park’s revamp. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free
- 7Pimlico Fridays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRampayne St Community Hub • SW1V 2PU • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 8Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 9Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. Our June theme is Pride. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Toilets accessible for disabled people
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- 11
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- 14Pimlico Fridays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRampayne St Community Hub • SW1V 2PU • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 15Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 16Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. Our June theme is Pride. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Toilets accessible for disabled people
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- 21Pimlico Fridays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRampayne St Community Hub • SW1V 2PU • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 22Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 23Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. Our June theme is Pride. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Toilets accessible for disabled people
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- 25
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- 28Pimlico Fridays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRampayne St Community Hub • SW1V 2PU • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 29Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 30Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. Our June theme is Pride. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Toilets accessible for disabled people
- 31
- 1
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- 4Pimlico Fridays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRampayne St Community Hub • SW1V 2PU • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 5Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 6Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. Our June theme is Pride. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Toilets accessible for disabled people
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