Welcome to Adventure Shenanigans
Adventure Shenanigans is a joyful collection of sew-on badges celebrating open water swimming, outdoor adventures, and all the brave, silly, soulful moments in between.
Each badge is designed to mark a memory – from your first icy dip to your hundredth sunrise swim – and to honour the spirit of wild-hearted wanderers who find joy in nature, connection, and cold water.
Thoughtfully designed and lovingly made, these high-quality badges are perfect for swim robes, camp blankets, rucksacks, and gift bundles. Whether you’re celebrating a personal milestone or kitting out your swim crew, there’s a badge (or three!) to mark the moment.
Hello, I’m Helen – the creator behind Adventure Shenanigans.
My love of sew-on badges grew from being a brownie, guide and scout, and also all my swimming and lifesaving badges which my mum put on my sweatshirt. As an adult I became a Scout Leader and the camp blanket got retrieved from the deepest, darkest depths of the attic, dusted off and once more worn round the campfire. As you can imagine many more badges were added.
Then in October 2020, having always had a love affair with swimming in the sea, I started regularly swimming all year round the sea off Hayling Island. What started out as two people meeting for a dip quickly grew into a big, beautiful family of misfits, supporting each other through the lockdown and Swimble Shenanigans was born.
With so many successes to celebrate my mind turned to how to commemorate these achievements and of course the answer was badges! I designed a set of six high quality sew-on badges for my lovely group. Other people saw them and loved my designs so much that they asked if they could have them too. So, since then, my little badge business, Adventure Shenanigans, has blossomed and developed into something I am very proud of. I now have over 130 different designs!!!
Because I sell the badges directly to you myself I get to have a chat with you, find out your stories and hear all about your amazing achievements and successes. It makes me very happy to see your smiling faces when selling them directly to you at an open water swimming meet ups and events. I am very happy to travel to you to set up my stall at your own events in the UK – just send me your dates.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read my story. Happy swimbling!
Online shop coming soon!
In the meantime, you can see my current designs via my Facebook page and contact me to purchase or to commission a design – just click the button below.