Small Business Saturday 2015 – Support Kool Badges

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Small Business Saturday 2015 – Kool Badges

It’s the 7th December 2015, it’s a Saturday & all around the UK today it’s Small Business Saturday. The hope is that today, you will choose to shop with small businesses and support them in the run up to Christmas. So today, buy your coffee from an independent coffee shop, buy your lunch from a local bakery, deli or restaurant & buy your hand made presents & stocking fillers from Kool Badges Christmas Badges.

It gets harder & harder for small business to compete with large companies. We don’t have the money to float us through quiet periods like huge companies & we don’t have unlimited advertising budgets to take out glossy magazine adverts & TV spots. ... Continue Reading

Handmade Christmas Button Badges

I don’t know about you but we are starting to feel very festive here at Koolbadges – our Christmas Jumpers are out and we have been listening to Smooth Christmas. Lots of you have already ordered your Christmas Badges, so very organised! If you haven’t seen our festive selection then you are missing out, we have over 400 Christmas themed badges & Badges sets which are perfect for Christmas parties, Stocking fillers, Secret Santa’s and just generally spreading a little festive spirit (unless you buy our Anti Christmas Badges). ... Continue Reading

Moustache Badges for Movember – Perfect for November 2015 – Movember badges

Every year we support Movember here in the Kool Badges workshop. Whether that consists of Mr Koolbadges growing an ugly 70’s moustache or sponsoring all of our friends & family who become Mo-Bros for November, we really do try to get involved in this wonderful charity. This year is no exception.

Each year we donate the proceeds from each Moustache badge sold on the site in November to our friends & family who are raising money for Movember. We know a few people who where clean shaven 2 days back and have already started cultivating their Mo’s. ... Continue Reading

Halloween badges for a spooky October 31st 2015

Halloween badges are some of our most popular products here at koolbadges. Every year we seem to make more & more halloween badges for our regular customers. Many people don’t even think of badges when it comes to Halloween costume planning but they are great to pin to school uniforms & work clothes. It is much easier to wear a badge on your shirt than to sit at your desk dressed as a ghost or zombie!

Halloween badges also make great trick or treat gifts. Hand them out to the children who knock at your door along with sweets & chocolate as an extra special treat. ... Continue Reading

Kool Badges has Relocated back to Cornwall

Long time customers & followers of Kool Badges may remember a few years ago we lived down in Cornwall & operated Kool Badges from our workshop on the mid cornwall coast. We where forced to move away for a number of personal reasons but we are now happy to announce that we have returned to the same village we lived in a few years ago. The village hasn’t changed much & they still do a lot of filming here (the village is Charlestown, Cornwall). Last time we lived here they filmed Dr Who & a few hollywood movies. This time it seems that Poldark fever has taken over. We saw them filming just last week. ... Continue Reading

Small Business Saturday – December 6th 2014

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I’m not sure how many people are aware in the UK that December 6th 2014 is Small Business Saturday. This trend started in the USA and is a way of promoting small businesses on the run up to christmas. Many of us aim to find the cheapest places to buy our gifts at this time of year as money is understandably tight, however these discounts are normally provided by massive corporations who have immense buying power. Independent retailers and small businesses cannot dream of competing on price, but they can offer a much more personal service & you can be safe in the knowledge that you are directly supporting the economy. ... Continue Reading

Hand Made Christmas 2014 – Vélo Culture

Every day leading up to christmas we are going to try and feature a Hand Made product or seller right here on the badge makers blog. If you want to recommend someone to us please do get in touch.

First I’d like to introduce you to Vélo Culture run by Bev Blakeman from Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. We found Vélo Culture a few months back and ended up doing a hand made swap (badges for a wash bag) and this little wash bag has travelled the country & the world with us already. ... Continue Reading

August button badges

August has been a crazy month over at Kool Badges Button Badges. Understandably one of the quietest months of the year due to the fact that everyone is away on holidays, we have been surprisingly busy. There is always something to do when you run a small business, from administration stuff to writing emails, sitting & making badges, coming up with new designs & maintaining all of our social media accounts. Between a couple of people there is always something to be done.

We have been receiving so many amazing custom orders this month. Some of your artwork is amazing & always makes for an interesting badge making day. We are also gearing up for the annual Kool Badges summer break. At that time we close the workshop for a whole week (which for anyone who knows us, either personally or as a customer will realise is a long time as we are nearly always working & available). We really enjoy being in the workshop & working with all of our wonderful customers but we really need a holiday this year. 2014 has been our busiest year to date and as a result we are in the process of moving to new premises. Hopefully we will also be able to bring a few more people on board to help out with the work load & grow Kool Badges even more. This will include bringing more things in house, improving our array of printing gear & introducing some new presses into our fleet of badge machines. Don’t worry though, our epic customer service won’t change, our aim to respond to most emails within 20 minutes will remain our top priority & we will continue to hand make all of our button badges right here in the UK with locally sourced parts. We will also ensure that everything we can re-use or recycle will be reused and recycled. ... Continue Reading

July badges

July has been a busy month for Kool Badges. We are in the process of relocating our premises so we have been running a 65p badge sale to help with the cost of moving. July and august are quiet months anyway as everyone is out in the sun enjoying themselves & generally putting the holidays to good use. We can’t complain, we are doing the same. We will be closed for a week in August for our annual Kool Badges break. We are heading to Europe & spending a week in Amsterdam. It’s one of our favourite cities & is one of the most beautiful places we have ever been. We keep getting tempted back for another visit year after year. ... Continue Reading

I Love Badges

I Love Badges are so popular. We make loads of I love badges. Naturally we love badges, we spend all day designing & making them for you guys but did you know that you can make an I love badge say anything you like? If you Love dogs or football, cars or cycling. Whatever you love, you can enter your text in the box on our custom I love badge page and add it to your cart. You can do this as many times as you like to make loads of unique custom I love badges.

We already have a load of I Love badges but it’s impossible for us to list badges covering everything you love. So we came up with the custom I love badge maker. Give it a try. For a limited time only all of our badges are reduced to 65p each, including the custom I love badges so head on over, have a play & order some unique badges. ... Continue Reading