There are a lot of people with hidden health conditions travelling everyday in the busy tubes of London. Not many recognise these disabilities and offer them a seat!

Transport for London has come up with an idea to offer “Please offer me a seat” badges in an attempt to help ease their suffering on the busy transport system. This is the first of it’s kind in Europe!

Previously, the Transport for London (TfL) has achieved tremendous success with it’s “Baby on board” badge for pregnant women. TfL has recruited 1,000 people to wear the blue badges from September.

According to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan these badges give confidence to people who find it difficult to stand on the transport.

“Cancer on Board” Badge by James McNaught

45 Year old James McNaught had already started making his own “Cancer on Board” badges to alert fellow passengers to their condition. Radiotherapy on his throat left him unable to speak to ask for a seat, and the morphine made him appear drunk. He has now joined hands in hands with TfL on this badge trial.

James Mcnaught designed his own badge to raise awareness at tubes

There are a lot of people like James who struggle to express their disability. We hope these badges act as their voice to raise awareness and make the commute more comfortable for everyone.

If you are looking for custom Badges, look no further!

We, at i4c Publicity Ltd is one of the leading providers of high quality promotional merchandise such as custom badges, ties, key chains, medals, trolley coins, cufflinks, tie slides, embroidered badges, scarfs, pennants, fridge magnets, wristbands, shields, plaques, umbrellas and more!

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Source: BBC News UK

How do you reward your pupils?

One of the biggest challenges that face teachers, heads and education professionals is producing ways of rewarding pupils and when to offer these rewards.

Finding the right balance between rewarding too often and not rewarding at all can be a difficult task.

One way of acknowledging greatness in a classroom environment is to reward pupils with badges.

A similar alternative is stickers, but the disposable nature of these rewards means they don’t leave as lasting of an impression as badges.

These badges give the child a heightened sense of achievement as this is something they can keep for a long time and is aesthetically more pleasing to the eye than stickers that get creased and crumpled.

When should you give out these badges?

Here are some suggestions:

• Achieving 100% attendance throughout the school year
• Producing an exemplary piece of creative work
• Awarded to mentors or prefects who show consistent leadership qualities
• Consistently showing teamwork qualities in PE and other classroom-based environments

Instead of giving out these types of reward on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, it gives them more value if they are awarded on an end of term or end of year basis.

Having a ceremony or assembly that brings together the school, and maybe even parents and governors, to give out these rewards will increase the level of pride for the child and give the badge more sentimental value in the future.

We have seen a huge increase in schools contacting us recently for award badges and have a system in place where we can offer the pin badges in a gold, silver, bronze & platinum finish. With our ability to manufacture any shape or size we encourage schools to break away from the traditional rectangle or shield shape badges and be creative by incorporating their school logo onto the pin badge.

If you are interested in using badges as a reward for your pupils, then check out or range of badges here –https://i4cpublicity.co.uk/product/award-badges/ they come in any shape, size or design that you desire!

Health and safety is becoming tighter in all walks of life.

The latest health and safety clampdown is at school level and is seeing the strong emergence of the clip-on-tie.  Traditional school ties are becoming rare, as headmasters up and down the country in both state and public schools seem to be opting for the safer clipped alternative.

With subjects like design and technology that require pupils to operate machinery in workshops, schools are deeming the traditional school tie to be a safety hazard with fears of these ties getting caught in machines.  Schools are becoming so passionate about the issues that there has been cases in the national media where pupils have been excluded for not following these tie guidelines.

With the growing number of academies up and down the country, they promote a smart, traditional image, with other schools promoting a corporate look that will make pupils more at ease in their working lives later on.  Another growing trend in schools is a return to the ‘house’ system, where school uniform ties now have to be matching with the colour of that house so pupils can be differentiated.

At i4c Publicity we have recognised these changing trends in schools and acknowledge that each school has different needs.

We offer all of our ties with the option of standard or clip-on-ties as well as Velcro or elasticated ties too.

We can manufacture a wide range of designs incorporating your school name, logo and design that meet your individual specification.

You can find out more information about our school ties on our website.

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i4c Publicity Team

One of the best ways to advertise your charity is through your very own personalised Charity badge.

Charities have very distinctive logos and are easily recognisable by most of the general public. They can be given to donators and ambassadors who can raise awareness at all times by wearing their badge.

There are many benefits of a Charity having their own badges, both tangible and intangible.

• It gives the person wearing the badge a sense of pride that they have donated and it can make them appear generous to people around them as they will know they have carried out a charitable act.
• Badges that carry aesthetically pleasing designs means that people are more likely to wear them repeatedly and raise more awareness for your Charity. If you get the design right, people will pay good money for the right charity pin badge and can add a real fashion value.
• Badges also carry very sentimental value – if the person wearing it feels very strongly about their chosen charity then badges are even less likely to be disposed of and can be passed down between generations.

The beauty of advertising for charities is that you are totally exempt from VAT when raising awareness for your cause.

 HMRC state that ‘The supply of advertising to a charity is zero-rated. The zero-rating covers advertisements on any subject, including staff recruitment. A charity can also purchase pre-printed collecting boxes, envelopes and appeal letters at the zero rate. Low cost lapel stickers, emblems and badges that a charity gives in acknowledgement of a donation can also be zero-rated.’

So taking all of the benefits into account – a badge is the ideal way of raising awareness for your Charity.

Here at i4c Publicity we make a wide range of Charity badges to suit your needs. We manufacture personalised badges at the shape, size, colour and texture that meet your individual needs.

Simply browse our website for more information on our Charity badges.

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i4c Publicity Team