Breakfast clubs

Names loud enough for coffee noise.

Reviewed by Daniel Cluderay, director of ONDRAFT LTD · Published 2026-09-05

Breakfast clubs meet early, talk over coffee noise, and expect you to remember someone’s firm three tables away. Paper tents lose. We ship programmable e-ink badges with first-name giant or member layouts — 250×122, three inks, read across the room. Hire from £6 per badge per day plus £20 postage.

Pick a layout for the room

First-name giant when the room is wide and loud. Member and host templates when you run structured intros with firm and role lines. QR optional for LinkedIn or booking links.

Ten badges for two meetings is £140 including postage — a sensible trial size before you scale to twenty-five for a full room.

Programme faces in Cleckheaton before the first coffee — not at the table with a label printer.

Standing setup routine

Badges arrive charged from Cleckheaton. Greeter matches names on the face, clips, done. No printer warm-up, no misaligned inserts.

Visitors mid-season? Add faces in the designer and include them in your next hire quantity — or update during an active hire window.

Same three inks as every other layout — first-name giant in black with a red bar reads further than a tent folded on the table.

Cadence and cost

Weekly or fortnightly meetings make reuse matter. Compare one hire window against repeated print runs over a quarter — especially when two new members join every month.

If you meet every Tuesday for a year, read buy versus hire before you default to repeat bookings.

Hire is £6 per badge per day plus £20 postage — ten badges for two breakfast mornings stays £140 including that postage.

Same £6 per day hire rate whether you meet at 7am or 7pm — calendar days, not hours in the room.

Not only BNI

We feature BNI because we wear the kit in a chapter — not an official BNI International partnership. The same hardware serves generic breakfast clubs, referral groups, and chamber mornings with different marks and bars.

Seasonal rhythm

Many clubs pause over summer and restart in September — hire for the relaunch window instead of storing paper inserts that went out of date. Faces update when membership changes without a print run.

Greeter role fits one person: box on the welcome table, names visible on bezels, collect at the end if you reuse the same kit next week within the hire dates.

Programme from Cleckheaton the same way we do for our own table — charged, labelled, three inks only.

Paper tents fold; e-paper faces stay flat on the lanyard all morning.