About us

Who we are and what we've done


Who we are

The Badge Collectors Circle is run by Frank Setchfield. Its aims are simple to discover as much as possible about non-uniformed British badges and connect like minded people. Frank started the BCC as a club in 1980, for thirty one years, through one hundred and eighty six newsletters and many Swapmeets the BCC strived to meet that simple edict. In 2011 it was decided that an improved website would be better suited to achieving these targets. We hope that you will agree and join in the fun.


What we do

We aim to record the social history of British badges through a simple archive. This may mean referring you to another site which details a particular area of badges. We hope to discover provenance for the origins of badges and produce articles along the way. We want to solve your badge questions-there are countless numbers of badges which simply contain letters of images and often their meaning is lost over time-we hope to record these little devils!

We want you to join in – send in your queries, solve some of our queries, write an article or simply contribute to the archive. It is all free and we hope you will find it a useful place to develop your part of the amazing hobby of badge collecting.

So even if you are not a collector but have found a badge in the attic, metal detecting or at a boot sale and want some help identifying it we hope to be able to help you.


Our History