honour boards logo designed by streetwiseUK Honour Boards title shown as incised lettering into an oak veneer and finished in gold leaf This displays honor boards made to any size, shape or color

Bespoke Honour Boards
to Acknowledge Special Achievements, Merit & Distinction
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  Coat of Arms & Symbols
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Board Shapes

The shapes shown below are some of many shapes available, they are just suggestions, you can have an honours board in any shape or size that you would like.

These are the basic shapes of honour boards available but remember that you can have any shape or size that you can think of

Board Colours
You can have any colour that you can imagine. We can try and colour match new boards to harmonise with any existing honour boards that you currently display. You can have an honour board in blue with a green border to match school colours. Wood dye colours are all transluscent and will show and emphasise the grain of the wood beautifully, unlike paint which will hide the wood.

Woodstain & Dye Colours

Just some of the colours available for your honours board
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There are no limitations to the shape, size or colour of honour board that you can have,
You can have any size, any shape, font style, framing or colour that you would like.

School Honours Boards

Sports Club Honours Boards

Local Goverment &
Town Council
This is an oak veneered honour board produced for Cathedral School in Cardiff A light oak Golf Captains honour board framed in solid oak Produced in silica acrylic with gold lettering this board records the names of town clerks in Yate since 1834
We produced seven captains honours boards for the Cathedral School in Llandaff, Cardiff. Each board lists the team captains of the seven different sports that the school competes in.
Please go the school honour board section for examples displaying the names of
Head Boys and Head Girls		 Waterton Park Golf Club in Wakefield, Yorkshire chose a light oak finish framed with solid oak timber and the names displayed in a dark chocolate brown. There were 10 boards in total, all of the same height but varying in width from 600mm to 2440mm. The largest can display the winners of eight different golf tournaments. Yate Town Council chose to display the names of past and present Town Clerks on a 10mm thick silica acrylic honours board. Silica acrylic is much like Perspex but simulates the look of glass more effectively than plain old clear acrylic. It's main advantage over glass is that it is much lighter and can be fixed to partition walls safely. This board is fixed to the wall with polished brass stand-off fixings.

Choosing an Honours Board

Honour boards may have a bit of a stuffy reputation, dark and ancient with 100 year old names fading but in reality they often tell a tale of a fascinating history and most importantly serve the function of encouragement in all aspects of work, endeavour and life.
To reflect this, we take great care and effort to produce honour boards that are special, distinctive and worthy of the names placed upon them.

There are no limitations to shape, size or colour of the honour board that you can have.
You can have any size, any shape, font style, framing or colour that you would like.

Everything that we produce is tailormade to your requirements, which means that you can ask us to produce anything that you can think of and we should be able to produce it.

Over to you. . . . All of the images shown here are just examples that may help you to assess your requirements.

In order to offer you any costs, suggestions and/or scale drawings we need a certain amount of information from you.
To find out what this is and how to get the ball rolling please click on this link to find out what information we need from you.

Company Honour Boards

Associations
Institutions
& Societies

Masonic Honours Boards
Selex Galileo commissioned this wave shaped honour board in golden oak to acknowlwdge excellence in mathematics A portable honours board made from 10mm thick toughened glass and aluminium with gold lettering and logo An ornate refurbished masonic honours board to present the names of past and current lodge masters
Selex Galileo chose a contemporary honour board design to encourage and acknowledge skills in mathematics at a school. Two aspects are recognised on the honours board; commitment and achievement. The board will also create awareness of Selex and the opportunities it may offer to aspiring young mathematicians. This portable honour board lists the Presidents of The Local Land Charges Institute. It is made from 10mm thick toughened glass which is held in an upright position by a heavy duty anodised aluminium base. Although the board is portable the 10mm X 1000mm X 700mm sheet of toughened glass weighs a lot, silica acrylic may have been a better choice for portability but glass is much more scratch resistant. This Masononic honour board lists the founders of Sawbridgeworth Lodge and its past and present masters. The board is made from a combination of veneered mahogany panels and solid mahogany mouldings.
The board was originally produced in the 1950's and had no space left for new names. Our job was to remove all lettering, re-finish the board and apply new lettering slightly smaller that would allow space for new names for the next 30 years or so.
We produce new reproduction boards like this in any timber that you choose.
Other boards, produced from scratch and in a simlar style are shown in this section.

Armed Services &
Military Honour Boards

Logos, Badges, Crests &
Coats of Arms

Acknowledgement, Thanks & Donar Boards
An apex shaped oak board produced for the Ministry of Defence to record the names of Chiefs of Staff of the Joint Medical Command The crests, logos and hand painted coat of arms used in the header sections of three honour boards A framed donars board made fron ash with a natural wood finish
Joint Medical Command chose an apex shape for two oak veneered honour boards to display the names of Commanding Officers.
We spent many hours redrawing the regimental crest to create a vector version which could be cut and reproduced at any size from 100mm high to 100 metres or could be coloured for print reproduction.
A larger version of the crest can be seen in the image on the immediate right.		 An emblem, logo, badge, crest or coat of arms often features on an honour board and can be reproduced in many ways, amongst them are:
1. Dye Sublimation Prints We can print your design using dye sublimation which is a vastly superior method when compared to any other method in that the colours should not fade for 50 years or so.
2. Hand painted. This is usually the most expensive method as it takes a long time but is also the only method that offers even greater colour stability than dye sublimation printing. Colours should still be strong after 100 years.
3. Vector graphics Many types of logo that involve areas of flat colour can be produced by cutting self adhesive materials to the shape of your design using a vector file that you supply or we can produce from your image. 		This framed donar board in ash was commissioned to acknowledge the names of people who have helped the Queen Alexandra Hospital Home maintain its services by donating legacies.

Ecclesiastical,
Rectors & Curates
The Church in Wales

Shields
Commemorative Plaques
& Crests

Glasgow
Racecourse Winners Board
Gold lettering records the names of rectors and curates since the 1300's for this church in Wales This image shows commemorative plaques and shield with gold lettering and coloured emblems horse racing winners name board near Glasgow, Scotland
This honours board in quarter cut oak veneer records the names of rectors and curates who have presided at this church in Wales for the last 800 years. The board was commissioned and donated to the church by an appreciative parishioner. Arnold House School were delighted that their pupils had won the "Kids' Lit Prize" in 2008 and recognised their achievement with this shield shaped plaque showing their names. It's all about encouragement.

The lower image shows a typical commemorative plaque of about A4 size.		 The winners names of this annual horse race are recorded on this framed honours board. A lot of work goes into framing a curved shape, costs rise accordingly.

Annual Prize Winners
Medical & Institutions
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

Types of Framing & Finishes

Fire Brigades, Police & Public Services
Close up of an oak moulding to cap a prize winners board produced for Heartland Hospital in Birmingham Four methods of framing your honours board Roll of honour at Eastbourne Fire Brigade and names of chief fire officers
An oak honour board with decorative top moulding shown here before any lettering was applied. Sometimes we can use standard mouldings, other times we have to produce them ourselves which can take a long time and increase the cost. This board had to match existing boards and the only way to produce a moulding of the matching size and shape was to make it in-house. The board with lettering can be seen in the enlargement if you click on the image. For more info on frames and framing of honours boards please click on the link or image above.
Top left
shows the honours board framed with a simple border line.

Top right
shows a board with a border line and a contrasting edge and margin colour.

Bottom left
A simple 30mm X 12mm oak architrave is used to form an elegant and traditional style frame.
The timber moulding is available to us off the shelf and is a relatively low cost option from your point of view.
More expensive? See below!

Bottomright
This board uses complex mouldings, all made by hand and not available off the shelf
which means the cost rises considerably.
This type of framing is typically used to produce a very traditional and substantial feel.
We produced a series of three boards for the East Sussex Fire Brigade headquarters based in Eastbourne. They all have a bevelled edge and are stained to a medium red mahogany colour.
The logos are produced by dye sublimation printing which are then hand cut with a scalpel and then adhered to the boards.

We have also produced boards for the West Midlands Police and HMP Stocken


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