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
September 2026
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- 4Pimlico Fridays2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Rampayne 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
- 5Rambert Feel This Free1:00 pm - 4:00 pmRambert • SE1 9PP • free Join the fun at the dance company’s outdoor family festival , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Wheelchair accessible toilet
Charing 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. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free
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- 11Pimlico 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
- 12Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 13Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free
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- 18Pimlico 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
Diva DungeonStart from: September 18, 2026 - 11:00 pmEnd at: September 19, 2026 - 3:00 amShacklewell Arms • E8 2EB • free. House, disco, ballroom, dub, donk… and badges. Venue accessibility info. , ...- Accessibility No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 19Let’s Go Emo! with LSFF3:00 pm - 5:00 pmRio Cinema • London E8 2PB • from £9.50 Shorts programme on early digital youth culture followed by badgemaking. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Wheelchair accessible toilet
Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...Diva DungeonStart from: September 18, 2026 - 11:00 pmEnd at: September 19, 2026 - 3:00 amShacklewell Arms • E8 2EB • free. House, disco, ballroom, dub, donk… and badges. Venue accessibility info. , ...- Accessibility No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 20Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free
Duckie Salutes Shirley Bassey5:00 pm - 10:00 pmSouthbank Centre • SE1 8XX • from £16 Duckie (birthplace of Badge Cafe) pay homage to the girl from Tiger Bay. , ...- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Wheelchair accessible toilet
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- 22Badge Cafe at Gut Level6:00 pm - 10:00 pmGut Level • Sheffield S1 2PD • free Our first Sheffield gig at this gorge LGBTQ+ space , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Wheelchair accessible toilet
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- 25Pimlico 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
- 26Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 27Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free
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- 3QueerSwap Saturdays1:00 pm - 4:00 pmQueerSwap Studio • SE1 7TP • pay what you like. Join us first Saturday of the month at the LGBTQ+ crafts hub. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Toilets trans-accessible
- 4Common Press Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmThe Common Press Dalston • N16 8BX • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our regular weekly hangout – now at this new Dalston venue. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, No wheelchair accessible toilet
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
September 2026
- MO
- TU
- WE
- TH
- FR
- SA
- SU
- 31
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 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
- 5Rambert Feel This Free1:00 pm - 4:00 pmRambert • SE1 9PP • free Join the fun at the dance company’s outdoor family festival , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Wheelchair accessible toilet
Charing 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. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free
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- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11Pimlico 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
- 12Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 13Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18Pimlico 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
Diva DungeonStart from: September 18, 2026 - 11:00 pmEnd at: September 19, 2026 - 3:00 amShacklewell Arms • E8 2EB • free. House, disco, ballroom, dub, donk… and badges. Venue accessibility info. , ...- Accessibility No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 19Let’s Go Emo! with LSFF3:00 pm - 5:00 pmRio Cinema • London E8 2PB • from £9.50 Shorts programme on early digital youth culture followed by badgemaking. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Wheelchair accessible toilet
Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...Diva DungeonStart from: September 18, 2026 - 11:00 pmEnd at: September 19, 2026 - 3:00 amShacklewell Arms • E8 2EB • free. House, disco, ballroom, dub, donk… and badges. Venue accessibility info. , ...- Accessibility No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 20Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free
Duckie Salutes Shirley Bassey5:00 pm - 10:00 pmSouthbank Centre • SE1 8XX • from £16 Duckie (birthplace of Badge Cafe) pay homage to the girl from Tiger Bay. , ...- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Wheelchair accessible toilet
- 21
- 22Badge Cafe at Gut Level6:00 pm - 10:00 pmGut Level • Sheffield S1 2PD • free Our first Sheffield gig at this gorge LGBTQ+ space , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Wheelchair accessible toilet
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- 24
- 25Pimlico 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
- 26Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 27Rich Mix Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRich Mix • E1 6LA • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our longest-running hangout. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 1
- 2
- 3QueerSwap Saturdays1:00 pm - 4:00 pmQueerSwap Studio • SE1 7TP • pay what you like. Join us first Saturday of the month at the LGBTQ+ crafts hub. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Toilets trans-accessible
- 4Common Press Sundays2:00 pm - 5:00 pmThe Common Press Dalston • N16 8BX • pay what you like. Join us every Sunday for our regular weekly hangout – now at this new Dalston venue. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, No wheelchair accessible toilet
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