Work card / gift etiquette

[poloroidpoltergeist]

Help please!

I'm part of an organisation that has a large team of remote associates, and a smaller core team of about 10 staff members - admin, leadership etc. I'm part of the core leadership team. One of our admin staff has a milestone birthday, and I've organised a card on behalf of the organisation, which I'll circulate for the core team to sign.

I'm also planning to buy a gift, and told core team colleagues that they were welcome to contribute to this as a group gift if they wanted to. 3 have chosen to do this.

Should I include this joint gift (printed voucher) with the 'whole organisation' card? Or should I put it in a second card from the smaller group who contributed to it?

(There's no precedent - we're a new organisation and this sort of thing hasn't happened before).

This possibly seems an non-dilemma to people who get social niceties, but they don't come easily to me so please share your wisdom.

At my work, the gift would be in a separate envelope from those who had contributed.

Those who had chosen not to contribute may have sorted their own present for the birthday person, so this alleviates confusion our end.

Thank you @Stephisaur, this is really helpful.

Yep, we only sign the gift from those that contribute

We normally give them together but we can have over 100 people signing a card and a gift voucher of 100s. So we don’t show exactly who contributed to the gift or not.