Gift Guide: Grown Ups

Cute things from small brands 🎁

We are not fans of gifting for the sake of it, so we’ve put together a small collection of gifts that are useful, beautiful, and fund small businesses - not billionaires.

We hope you find something for a special person in your life - or maybe something to add to your own list!

For readers

These gifts will delight the avid reader in your life 📚

1. Dear Reader: £11.95, Hive

2. Book Worm Fingerless Gloves: £40, Black & Beech

3. You are Home: £20.55, Hive

4. Verse Preloved Book Subscription: from £30, Verse

For scatterbrains

For those in your life who need something to make planning and organisation fun ✍️

5. Life Designer Journal: £36, Papersmiths

6. Family Wall Planner: £18, Good Tuesday

7. Lunch Bag: £29.95, Kind Bag

8. 2026 Bingo Card: £12.99, Silly Little Star Charts

For throwing a fit

Foundations and finishing touches for that friend who always looks on point 💃🏻

9. THEA Teardrop Necklace: £40, Initialled

10. Original Knicker Four Pack: £35, Buy Women Built x Stripe & Stare

11. Cotton Oversized Scrunchie: £16.15, TBCo

12. Clover Nightdress: £105, If Only If

For homebodies

For the people who love a slow Sunday 🏠

13. Sensory Selection Pack: £65, Garden on a Roll

14. Lotus Green Block Printed Cotton Napkins: £34, Napkins

15. Salt Soap Trio: £30, Dook Soap

16. Bodum x Moma Caffetiere, £50, Wolf & Badger

For Foodies:

For people whose eyes are bigger than their belly 😋

Featured Brand: Different Kind

When we put a call out for this gift guide, we knew that we needed to include Different Kind as soon as they landed in our inbox. Their products are beautiful, and their ethos is magical. They stock goods that do good, from the very best ethical and socially-minded producers, and are motivated by social outcomes such as employing refugees, hiring ex-offenders, buying coffee from women farmers or training neurodivergent young people for fulfilling jobs. From their Palestinian olive oil that supports marginalised farming communities to their

17. Crisis Coffee: £9, Volcano Coffee

18. Extra Virgin Olive Oil: £12, Zaytoun

19. Winter Warmer Hamper: £65, Different Kind

20. Sweet Orange Chocolate Bar: £4.75, Up Up

For unproblematic men

Making men less hard to buy for 👨🏻

21. Metro Folio Kit: £65, Monos

22. The Shower Pack: £15, BOB

23. The Slipper: £85, Bedfolk

24. Gilley Umbrella: £36.90, Gilley

We hope you found something sweet - and remember, by shopping small, you are helping to redirect money from Bezos to small biz.