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
July 2026
MO
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FR
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- 3Pimlico 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
Wallace Collection LGBTQ+ Ball6:30 pm - 11:00 pmWallace Collection • W1U 3BN • £10-15. Sadie Lee’s annual queer shindig is always a hoot of historic proportions. , ... - 4Pride in London Family Area12:00 pm - 6:00 pmVictoria Embankment Gardens • WC2N 6DU • free. Open-air fun at London’s big LGBTQ+ day out. , ...QueerSwap 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 not accessible for disabled people, Toilets trans-accessible
Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ... - 5Rich 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
- 6Pride Connect6:00 pm - 11:00 pmWalthamstow Trades Hall • E17 4RQ • free. Business and artists networking event as part of Waltham Forest Pride. Venue accessibility info. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free
- 7
- 8Duckie Deep Divers6:00 pm - 9:00 pmWheatsheaf Hall • SW8 2UP • free. Find out more about joining Duckie’s new history project looking at queer Vauxhall from the ’70s to ’90s. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Wheelchair accessible toilet
- 9
- 10
- 11Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 12Rich 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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- 17Pimlico 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: July 17, 2026 - 11:00 pmEnd at: July 18, 2026 - 3:00 amShacklewell Arms • E8 2EB • free. The awesome DD gang team up with ace QTIPOC nightlife collective Internet Culture. Venue accessibility info. , ...- Accessibility No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 18Charing 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: July 17, 2026 - 11:00 pmEnd at: July 18, 2026 - 3:00 amShacklewell Arms • E8 2EB • free. The awesome DD gang team up with ace QTIPOC nightlife collective Internet Culture. Venue accessibility info. , ...
- Accessibility No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 19We Crip Film Festival11:30 am - 6:30 pmBFI Southbank • SE1 8XT • free. Get badging between the awesome weekend disability activism film programme. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Wheelchair accessible toilet
Rich 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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- 21
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- 23
- 24Pimlico 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
- 25Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 26Rich 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
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31Pimlico 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
- 1QueerSwap 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 not accessible for disabled people, Toilets trans-accessible
Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ... - 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
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
July 2026
MO
TU
WE
TH
FR
SA
SU
- 29
- 30
- 1
- 2
- 3Pimlico 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
Wallace Collection LGBTQ+ Ball6:30 pm - 11:00 pmWallace Collection • W1U 3BN • £10-15. Sadie Lee’s annual queer shindig is always a hoot of historic proportions. , ... - 4Pride in London Family Area12:00 pm - 6:00 pmVictoria Embankment Gardens • WC2N 6DU • free. Open-air fun at London’s big LGBTQ+ day out. , ...QueerSwap 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 not accessible for disabled people, Toilets trans-accessible
Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ... - 5Rich 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
- 6Pride Connect6:00 pm - 11:00 pmWalthamstow Trades Hall • E17 4RQ • free. Business and artists networking event as part of Waltham Forest Pride. Venue accessibility info. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free
- 7
- 8Duckie Deep Divers6:00 pm - 9:00 pmWheatsheaf Hall • SW8 2UP • free. Find out more about joining Duckie’s new history project looking at queer Vauxhall from the ’70s to ’90s. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Wheelchair accessible toilet
- 9
- 10
- 11Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 12Rich 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
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17Pimlico 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: July 17, 2026 - 11:00 pmEnd at: July 18, 2026 - 3:00 amShacklewell Arms • E8 2EB • free. The awesome DD gang team up with ace QTIPOC nightlife collective Internet Culture. Venue accessibility info. , ...- Accessibility No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 18Charing 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: July 17, 2026 - 11:00 pmEnd at: July 18, 2026 - 3:00 amShacklewell Arms • E8 2EB • free. The awesome DD gang team up with ace QTIPOC nightlife collective Internet Culture. Venue accessibility info. , ...
- Accessibility No wheelchair accessible toilet
- 19We Crip Film Festival11:30 am - 6:30 pmBFI Southbank • SE1 8XT • free. Get badging between the awesome weekend disability activism film programme. , ...
- Accessibility Venue access step-free, Wheelchair accessible toilet
Rich 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
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24Pimlico 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
- 25Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ...
- 26Rich 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
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31Pimlico 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
- 1QueerSwap 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 not accessible for disabled people, Toilets trans-accessible
Charing Cross Saturdays4:00 pm - 7:00 pmCharing Cross Library • WC2H 0HF • free. Join us as part of the community hub’s ongoing programme. , ... - 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
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