How much do custom medals cost in the UK?

Price depends on size, finish, thickness and quantity. Send us your event details and we come back with an itemised quote alongside a free design concept, so you can see exactly what you are paying for.

What is the minimum order for custom medals?

100 medals. That covers most club championships, galas, races and school competitions.

Do I have to pay for the design?

No. We design your medal for free and keep editing it until you are happy. You only pay once you approve the design and place the order.

How long do custom medals take to make?

Tell us your event date and we plan the design, approval and production schedule backwards from it. Most orders comfortably fit a four to six week window.

Can you make custom medals with our logo on them?

Yes. Your logo, crest or emblem is the starting point for the whole design, including the medal shape and the printed ribbon.

Custom Medals UK | Free Design Mock-ups

Built for your event

A medal designed around your club, not pulled from a catalogue.

Custom shapes, club colours and printed ribbons. Every detail is yours — and you see a free mock-up before you order.

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Range of custom medals designed by GoPodium for UK sports clubs and events

What makes a custom medal actually custom

A genuinely custom medal starts with the shape. If your club badge is a shark fin, a phoenix or a shield, that is the outline of the medal, not a circle with a sticker in it. From there we work on the relief depth, the enamel colour fills, the metal finish and the texture so the whole piece reads as yours from across a room.

The ribbon is designed at the same time, in your club colours, with your name printed through it. It is part of the medal, not an afterthought pulled from a stock reel.

See it before you spend anything

Send us your logo and a sentence about the event. We turn that into a visual medal concept and email it back to you, free, with no obligation and nothing to sign.

If the committee wants the shape changed, the colours swapped or the wording adjusted, we redraw it. As many times as it takes, at no extra cost.

Priced honestly for clubs

We work with volunteer-run clubs as well as large event organisers, so pricing is transparent and quantity-based. You get an itemised quote covering the medals, the ribbons and delivery, with no setup or artwork fees hidden underneath.

Ordering more brings the unit price down, and we will tell you where the price breaks fall so you can decide rather than guess.

Made for UK clubs, shipped worldwide

We supply swimming clubs, running events, gymnastics competitions, triathlons, football tournaments and school sports days across the UK, and we deliver internationally to organisers in Europe, the US and beyond.

One named contact handles your order from the first sketch to the boxes arriving, so you always know where things stand.

How to order medals without the usual stress

Most committees only order medals once or twice a year, so the process feels bigger than it is. Here is exactly how it runs, and where clubs usually trip up.

1. Work backwards from your event date

The only genuinely fixed date in the whole process is the day athletes need something round their neck. Start there, take off a week of contingency for delivery, and you have your production deadline.

Design and approval is the part that slips, because committees meet fortnightly and everyone has an opinion on the crest. Getting the first concept in front of people early is what keeps the schedule honest.

2. Send your logo in the best format you have

A vector file (AI, EPS, SVG or PDF) is ideal because it can be scaled and separated into layers for tooling. If all you have is a PNG from your website, send it anyway. We redraw artwork routinely and will tell you honestly if quality will limit the detail.

If your crest has fine text or thin lines, we will usually suggest simplifying it slightly for the metal. Detail that reads fine on a screen can disappear at 60mm.

3. Decide what the medal has to do

A participation medal for 400 juniors and a championship medal for eight finalists are different objects. Participation medals reward volume, colour and a great ribbon. Championship medals reward weight, relief depth and finish.

Plenty of clubs run both from one design, changing only the metal finish and the ribbon wording. It keeps everything visually consistent and keeps the order over the minimum in one go.

4. Get the concept, then be picky

We send a visual concept for free before any money changes hands. Circulate it to the committee, the coaches and, if you can, one or two athletes. They notice things adults do not.

Edits are unlimited and free. Changing the shape at concept stage costs nothing; changing it after tooling costs everyone time. Say what you actually think at this stage.

5. Approve, produce, deliver

Once you sign off the design we produce the tooling, run the medals, print the ribbons and pack them to your instructions, sorted by event or age group if that helps on the day.

One named contact stays with your order from first sketch to boxes arriving, and we ship worldwide, so overseas organisers get the same process without the timezone ping-pong.

Common mistakes worth avoiding

Ordering exactly the number of entries. Late entries, double entries and lost medals are guaranteed. A ten per cent buffer costs very little and saves an awkward presentation.

Putting the year on everything. If there is any chance of leftovers being useful next season, keep the year on the ribbon or the reverse engraving rather than the medal face.

Leaving the ribbon to the end. The ribbon is half of what people see when the medal is hanging. Designing it alongside the medal, in club colours, is what makes the set look properly bespoke.