Martha Brook’s Ultimate Small Business Gift Guide 2025 is here! And this year’s edition is our biggest and best one yet. With over 600 small businesses submitting their products (thank you!). It was super hard to whittle them down, but we’ve curated 10 inspiring gift categories packed with almost 100 incredible finds from independent brands across the UK.

Thoughtful, beautifully made, sustainable, heartfelt – the products in the Ultimate Small Business Gift Guide 2025 celebrate everything we love about shopping small. So whether you’re shopping for someone special or treating yourself, we hope this guide helps you discover some truly unique and wonderful gifts. Grab a cuppa and get ready to browse! Let’s do this…

The Ultimate Small Business Gift Guide 2025

Bold & Brilliant Gifts

For the colour-lovers and statement-makers! This edit is bursting with gifts that dare to be different. Think joyful pops of colour, clever ideas and standout designs. Obsessed.

1. Electric Eye Apparel – Where Love Lives Women’s Sweatshirt

2. Amelia Scott – Amelia Bow Ring Emerald, Blush Pink & Gold

3. By Antonia Illustration – In-the-Pink Personalised Gilded Letter Print, A4

4. House of Disaster – Small Talk Going Out-Out Purse

5. Laura Danby – Green Shooting Star Earrings

6. Mood Made – Live Laugh Leave by 9pm Cap

7. Tikkled Pink – Christmas Dogs Tea Towel

8. Talking Tables – Blue Fabric ‘The More the Merrier’ Framed Sign

9. Rock on Ruby – Christmas Tree Bow Sweatshirt

Cottagecore Gifts

These gifts are for the cottagecore soul – someone who finds joy in simple pleasures and a little rustic charm. Whimsical and nostalgic, these gifts feel like they belong in a cosy countryside kitchen, and we’re here for it.

1. Haiku Lane – Ribbons & Reverie Necklace

2. Martha Brook – Personalised Woodland Hardback Notebook

3. Parsley & Twine – Evergreen Cow Parsley Scarf

4. Trisha Patel – Ascending Beauty Print

5. Iris & Lolli – Gold Baby Oak Earrings

6. Lucy Miller – 2026 Year Wall Planner, Pressed White Florals on Black

7. The Indian Block Print Co. – Embroidery Collaboration Kit – The Cottage Garden

8. Knots of Pine – Personalised Bookshop

9. Ved Cooks – Sprouts Doorbow

10. Woolly Dachshund – Hand Knitted Dachshund Jumper Striped

Gifts for Cosy Days

Get ready to hunker down! This collection is made for slow mornings and snuggly evenings. Filled with comforting finds to help them have a moment of much-needed calm.

1. Martha Brook – Personalised Wellness Journal

2. Genevieve Sweeney – Salpaka Merino Alpaca Marl Stripe Socks Pink

3. Yonder – Women’s Pyjama Set Whirly Fern

4. Spill – Starter Set Teabags

5. Harth – Cinnamon Hot Chocolate

6. Chloe Haywood London – Special Mini Cashmere Hot Water Bottle

7. Mister Peebles – I can barely reach 500 piece jigsaw puzzle

8. Whist – Old Solstice Refillable Candle

9. Sea Bramble Ceramics – Daisy Match Striker

Personalised Family Gifts

Heartfelt and meaningful, these personalised picks celebrate the people (and pets!) who matter most. The perfect way to capture memories or make loved ones feel truly special.

1. Peggy & Kate – Pet Portrait Bauble – Hand Painted

2. Martha Ratcliff Illustration – Personalised Baby Portrait Print with stars and border

3. The Cardi Chronicles – Personalised Hand-knitted Rainbow Baby Cardigan

4. Pupsentials – The Crewneck

5. Chateau Mathilde – Personalised Hand Embroidered Skinny Name Headband

6. Aria & Avery – Matching Mummy & Mini Necklaces

7. Rock on Ruby – Embroidered Personalised Bow Initial Scarf

8. Blossom & Bramble Embroidery – Space Theme Hand Embroidered Cushion

9. Tiramisew – Personalised Embroidered Scrunchie – Custom Icon and Text

10. Natalie Cass Art – Personalised Recipe Art Print

Gifts for Adventurers

From weekend wanderers to outdoor explorers, this edit is packed with gifts designed for the curious at heart. Inspire their next adventure with this gorgeous edit.

1. Martha Brook – Personalised Luggage Tag

2. Louisa Elizabeth – Personalised Original World Pin Board Map

3. Made By Mrs Jones – Personalised Map Puzzle Piece Art

4. Odd Goose – A Doodle a Day Notepad

5. Fieldtrip Adventure Supply – Waxed Cotton Cutlery & Utensil Tool Roll

6. Bosky Store – Wool Felt Adventure Pennant Flag

7. Louise Levine – ‘End of the Day Serenity’ Original Seascape

8. Ramble Guides – Peak District by Athena Mellor

9. Finest Imaginary – Reluctant Walkers Club Patch

10. Scorch Lasercraft – I Owe You Voucher

The Merry Host

For the ones who make every gathering magical, or perhaps a gift for yourself for Christmas?! These gifts will help you set the scene and be the most-talked-about items round the table!

1. The Primitive Home – Velvet Bow

2. Spicer & Wood – Pink Champagne Glass

3. Yonder – Christmas Stocking

4. Zoe’s Blooms – Traditional style fresh Christmas wreath

5. Livava Home – Set of 4 Beaded Party Coasters

6. Modo – Giant Wooden Letter / Word Bunting

7. eco-able – Pullable reusable crackers

8. Martha Brook – Personalised Christmas Planner

9. Heather Evelyn – Pair of Candles – Let’s be Merry and Bright

Gifts for Food Lovers

Deliciously good ideas for the kitchen dwellers and enthusiastic snackers! These unique additions to our Ultimate Small Business Gift Guide 2025 are sure to go down a treat.

1. Proper Good – Morning Coffee Print

2. Nikki McWilliams – Chocolate Malted Milk Printed Cushion

3. Pump Street Chocolate – Sourdough & Sea Salt 66%

4. Ruffles & Riot – ‘Olives Forever’ Jewellery Dish

5. Nephthys Illustrated – Cheese Lover Print

6. Katy Kirkham Designs – Christmas Croissant Decoration

7. Wick Guru – Buttery Croissant Candle

8. Sarah Nolloth Studio – Personalised Porcelain Decorative Plate

Gifts for Little Ones

Utterly charming gifts to bring delight to tiny humans and the grown-ups who love them. Full of imagination-sparking treasures and cosy knits to bring a little bit of wonder, you simply can’t get on the high street.

1. Clarkes Farm – Mouse Hole Farmhouse Dollhouse

2. Little Novice – The Varsity Shirt

3. Minibeau – Animals of the World Height Chart

4. Toys from the Woods – Wooden Pull Along Animal

5. Sew Aneira – Red Children’s Pixie wool hand knitted bonnet

6. Mouse & Meg – From Tiny Acorns Print

7. Paper Jewels Co – Transport Boys Nursery Prints

8. Barney & Bella – Louie Lion Muslin Comforter

9. Bluebell’s Burrow – Maileg Winter Bunny

Gifts for Gardeners

For the green-fingered and garden lovers! This edit is brimming with gifts that celebrate the joy of nature and the quiet joy of growing something for yourself.

1. Eve Print Studio – Dahlia Flower Risograph Print

2. Martha Brook – Personalised Leather Effect Gardening Journal

3. Britches – Women’s Overalls in ‘Warming Eucalyptus’ green

4. Hot Dot Laser – Personalised Fork and Trowel Gardening Tools

5. Lyonette – This is our Happy Place Print

6. Glass Lore – Stained Glass Nuthatch Bird Decoration

7. Herboo – Sweet Pea ‘Little Sweetheart’ Seeds

8. Ferne Creative – Hedgehog Charity Enamel Pin

9. Little Garden Shop – Ceramic Garden Markers

10. Toyo – Camber-top Toolbox

Christmas Magic

Keep the magic alive for tiny believers with these truly special finds. From letters from Santa to cosy festive surprises, these gifts are sprinkled with pure Christmas wonder.

1. Inch Blue – Rudolf Red Stripe

2. Maisie Moo Makes – Christmas Traditions Santa Please Stop Here Sign

3. Made by Leah – ‘Christmas at The Toy Shop’ Children’s Book

4. Bokuno Shop – Little Elf Doll

5. Charlotte’s Craft Nook – Personalised First Christmas New Home Bauble

6. Clara & Macy – Personalised Dear Santa Letter Handmade Christmas Envelope

7. Stanley and Solly – Personalised Christmas Mulled Wine Mug

8. Styled to Sparkle – Red Stripe Christmas Stocking

We hope you love this Ultimate Small Business Gift Guide 2025 and thank you for helping us shop small and make a real difference to independent brands this Christmas. Do go discover some lovely small businesses to support this weekend and beyond, and come let us know in the comments – which gift have you got your eye on?!

P.S. If you’d like to buy something from our small business, you can get 15% off everything until Sunday using the code SMALLJOYS – thank you!