Presentation Quilt Volunteer of the Year Badge

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A Volunteer of the Year digital badge drawn as one red Sawtooth Star quilt block, with the award year in the star's centre for each year's winner to share.

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Round badge, readable at profile-picture size
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Each badge links to a verified record
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Updated 12 November 2026 · Designed by the Hyperstack studio

See it where it lives

Drawn to read at small sizes

A badge is mostly seen small. These are its real sizes on screen.

On a profile

120 px

In a list of badges

64 px

In an email signature

40 px

What is on it

A badge people are proud to show

You write once

The same for everyone. Keep the template’s words or change them.

Badge words: Volunteer

Filled in for each person

Hyperstack fills these from your list when you send.

The recipient’s name and the award, in the badge’s verified record
The issue date and a credential ID
A link anyone can click to verify it

Specifications

Sizes, fonts and colours

Sizes

Badge: 470 × 470 px, round · Reads at 120 px on a profile

Fonts

Libre Caslon Text: Title
Figtree: Text, Labels

Google Fonts, free for commercial use.

Colours

Paper#f8f3e6
Ink#1f2a44
Accent#a53a2b
Second accent#7a2e25
Muted text#685f52

Change any colour in the studio.

Design notes

The badge is a single Sawtooth Star block, the kind a community once pieced into a presentation quilt for someone it wanted to thank. A wide Turkey red border with muslin corner squares carries VOLUNTEER along the top and OF THE YEAR along the bottom, and the award year sits in the red centre of the star as editable text, so the same badge serves next year's winner. The square shape and strong contrast keep the star and the year clear even at small sizes on a phone screen.

About

Volunteer of the Year Badge Template, Star Quilt Block

The Volunteer of the Year is the one annual award a volunteer program gives to a single person, and a digital badge lets the winner carry it beyond the night of the ceremony. Volunteer centres, charities, hospitals, schools and service clubs issue it alongside the printed certificate, so the recipient can add it to a professional profile, a CV or an email signature and show which year they earned it.

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Words that go with it

The email and the post, written for you

Email to send with it

Subject: Congratulations, name: you are our Volunteer of the Year

Dear name,

It is our great pleasure to tell you that you have been chosen as our Volunteer of the Year. Your name came up again and again in the nominations from staff and fellow volunteers, and it is easy to see why: your time, your steadiness and the way you welcome everyone made a real difference this year.

Your award certificate and badge are ready. Open them to download and print the certificate, and share the badge on your profile so the people around you can celebrate with you.

With heartfelt thanks from all of us.

Hyperstack fills in each person’s name and link when it sends.

Post for the recipient to share

I am honoured to have been named Volunteer of the Year. I started helping out on Saturday mornings without expecting anything, and this year became one of the best of my life thanks to the people I served and the volunteers beside me. Thank you to everyone who nominated me. If you have been thinking about volunteering, start this week. #Volunteering #VolunteerOfTheYear #Community

Recipients share it with one click from their credential page, with the badge attached.

Certificate or badge?

Send both. They do different jobs.

Certificate

A full record: name, statement, skills, dates and signatures
Printed and framed, or kept as a PDF
Opens to a page anyone can verify

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Digital badge

A small image people put on LinkedIn and in email signatures
Carries the verified details inside it (Open Badges 2.0)
One click shows who earned it and who issued it

How to send it

From template to everyone’s inbox

01
Make it yours
Open the template, add your logo and change any colour or word.
02
Add your people
Upload a spreadsheet, or connect your LMS, HR tool or form.
03
Send it
Each person gets an email and their own credential page, in one go.
04
They share it
Recipients add it to LinkedIn; anyone can verify it from the QR code.