Token gifts for my work team

[Becles]

Looking for ideas for what to give my team for Christmas.

I have a budget of about £5-10 per head and obviously the lower end the better!

I've tended to get Christmas ornaments with their initials from Oliver Bonas and such, and last year for a few who'd pretty much carried us, I added bottles of their favourite spirits. This year I'm completely out of ideas any suggestions appreciated 💡

I have 11 people:

Female: 50s 2x, 40s 2x, 30s 1x
Male: 50s 1x, 40s 1x, 30s 2x, 20s 2x

Hotel chocolat selector boxes always go down well. They’re usually on a 3 for £15 offer

A scratchcard and a little chocolate, with a personal note of thanks to each? It’s difficult to find something that will work for such a range of people imo.

I got a honey spoon once. I still have it 20 years later and comes in very handy. Random piece of cutlery that hardly anyone owns.

My manager does a lucky dip each year.

She spends about £5 on each gift, wraps them up and puts them on the staffroom table for everyone to take one.

I look forward to it every year and save it to open on Christmas morning

Could you do similar but divide them into male/female gifts if keeping them generic is too difficult?

Looked it up on Amazon, bit pricey. Honey spoon

Classic book each?

Last year I gave my team one of those small hotel chocolat boxes. I take them out for lunch, so always put something small at each place setting. Sometimes it’s a £5 scratch card.

Sounds like hard work. Suggest a secret Santa.

I did personalised fridge magnets one year, went in the christmas card, so didn't even need to wrap them!

A few years ago a colleague got us all a personalised glass Christmas bauble, it still gets put on my tree every year.

If it's an office team, what about something for their desks like a personalised mouse mat? Lots of places do them.

Small box of booja booja chocs
Miniature
Coffee shop voucher
Jar of local honey/jam/chutney
Mini truckle of cheese
Tiny pot plant (ikea or similar)

All consumable I know but I tend to think that's good. I actually like the lucky dip idea above if you can be sure of enough decent quality ideas.

I’ve done

• a paperback book chosen to match their interests
• a Christmas pudding
• posh chocolate
• good coffee

previously and all have been well received. I try to avoid alcohol just in case anyone has a religious or addiction issue with this.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, please keep them coming.

I REALLY like the idea of a honey spoon (for half a decade, my go to wedding present was 6 grapefruit/kiwi spoons, so very up my street.) but it's more spendy than my bank manager would be happy with.

Annoyingly chocolate is out for about 40% of the team. This is my gift to them, so not a secret santa vibe, although we may end up doing one anyway in addition to my gift to them if someone suggests it.

I'm loving the baubles and magnets, but may need to put in time to design one...

Supermarket gift cards

You could go with a honey dipper (with a ridged end rather than a spoon - various wooden ones on Amazon from £1 to £2.50 each, cheap enough to add a jar of honey!

This year I'm going for personalised socks from Shein ... about £3 each ... will have a pic of them, our team, their cat etc on depending on the person.

Small voucher each for local nice coffee shop/Costa? I love a treat coffee!

@thesnailandthewhale would you mind sharing the link please?

Please not Shein, you may offend your colleagues, ethically Shein have such a poor reputation.

I'd honestly prefer not to have a gift if this were offered.

I think of this when I hear honey spoons and at this price you could give a jar of honey too
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dexam-17740155-Honey-Dipper-Beech/dp/B0000BVECJ/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=2B34RIUZTZTZ1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.udwcyOwR5CpwYtPIZphmZw_L1wxc-aSDMN3JssGjAMFrQQmCabAX40iWPNgLhldwdSbyvvH39QiuUrCfmFKqi-qh87f5ply-b8bQmXT2vYCrPIQuy7D5tSA5qnfd0fYubOX1bNHE6W3zv-0uuOscMEqYhJ7ft1V877BhXe0OA74v70KZcj7K0MOIOCZxw5xaucJNnby47ZXi0FwWjzY72A.FnqTUHqGIYnOr8KZrg9kL3ZZ8coLAapFC55JrlDp_qU&dib_tag=se&keywords=honey+spoon&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1730051212&sprefix=honey+%2Caps%2C297&sr=8-4

These are so cute
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1053278566/fused-glass-penguin-christmas-decoration

Agreed. I’m amazed people are still recommending that company.

I’m sure the sweat shop slaves will appreciate your business. 🙄

Coffee shop voucher
Book shop voucher

My staff always prefer vouchers