[quote TFSRM]Zoo and museum shops often have lovely things and they need all the income they can get with lockdown 2 and having to shut again. London Zoo have 20,000 animals they need to feed and look after.
shop.zsl.org/collections/london-zoo-gift-shop
www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/
shop.sciencemuseum.org.uk/
www.nhmshop.co.uk/
shop.ashmolean.org/[/quote]
Seconding the museum shops - well worth a look because they’ve got some fantastic reasonably priced stocking fillers and to plug the hole in their finances. I’ve just ordered 2 T-shirts, a mug, and a piece of jewellery from the Science Museum for various family members.
To PP’s list I would add the V&A, the British Library, The British Museum, Kew Gardens and the South Bank Centre shop which is less obvious but has particularly lovely prints.
I’d also second a pp’s mention of
www.myadventurekit.co.uk/ which makes great presents for children with gardens - though possibly not well timed for Christmas.
Other independent suggestions:
www.highlandstoneware.com/ for rustic but classy hand painted china - where I got my favourite ever mug, and where I bought a replacement when I broke it twenty years later.
www.6oclockgin.com also do some great unusual gins and liqueurs which make good gifts for hard to please foodies.
There are lots of independent shops selling board games as well. High quality board games like Ticket To Ride, Carcassonne, or Pandemic are the sort of thing which you might automatically think of Amazon for, but if you google your local games shop they’ll probably do you a click and collect - and IME at the same price as Amazon or cheaper. Waterstones also stocks many good board games if you don’t have a local independent - at least it’s not Amazon.