Toast E-Card
Toast, with its artsy sensibility, timeless clothing collection and near-irresistible homewares, makes shopping a dreamy experience. Its e-gift cards come in values from £10 to £200 and would, without doubt, make your recipient very, very happy on Christmas morning.
Neptune E Gift Card
We covert almost everything that Neptune makes. If the person on your list feels the same, they will doubtless be delighted with an e-gift card in denominations ranging from £10 to £2,500.
Garden Trading Gift Card
Got someone green-fingered to buy for? Or, indeed, someone who just enjoys chic, simple home décor? Garden Trading’s voucher covers both crowds.
National Trust Gift Card
For those who like spending their Sundays poking around historic piles, a National Trust gift card makes a brilliant present. Available in denominations from £10 to £150, do note that only new memberships can be bought with the card (though anyone can use it across the NT shops).
National Book Tokens
If you have a bookworm on your list but you can’t be sure what tomes they’ve already devoured, a National Book Token is a great choice – they can spend it at bookshops across England, Ireland and online in retailers spanning Waterstones, WHSmith (excluding travel outlets), Blackwell's, Foyles, Easons, John Smith, and local independent bookshops. Easy as ABC.
John Lewis
You simply cannot go wrong with a John Lewis gift card. Whether your recipient wants to treat themselves to homeware, clothes or tech, dear old JL is classic for a reason.
Ottolenghi Gift Voucher
After the merry-go-round of roasts and pigs-in-blankets, why not give the gift of Middle Eastern-meets-Mediterranean food in the form of an Ottolenghi gift voucher? The lucky recipient will thus be able to start the year feasting on light, flavour-packed, deliciously textured salads and the like. From £25.
Borough Kitchen Digital Gift Card
Borough Market is one of our favourite destination shops for crockery and the most deliciously enticing of kitchen gadgets. You can give its e-card in denominations of £25 to £1000, or choose one of the company’s Cookery School gift cards.
Bamford
From restorative full spa days and tailored treatments to beauty, bath, body, home and clothing, Bamford gift cards can be redeemed against products and experiences at Bamford locations in London and the Cotswolds. What's not to love about this?
Astley Clarke
Got a jewellery lover to buy for? Astley Clarke is one of the most desirable online jewellers. And, with the magic that is online retail, you can have a natty little gift voucher pinging its way to your intended in two shakes of a lamb’s tail – ahhh and relax! Buy one here.
Cowshed
The brainchild of Nick Jones, this uber brand of cosmetics, toiletries and candles is made from only the finest natural ingredients with oils that disperse the most heavenly aromatic scents (lavender, Franckinsence, lemon to name but a few). We cannot emphasize enough how a room can be transformed with the simple addition of a Cowshed scented candle, or the delight of running your fingers through your hair after a squirt of their Softening Conditioner (one of our favourite products of all time here at The Guide). This really is the gift that will keep on giving, as the potent oils create heady scents that will last and last. Buy one here.
Urban Retreat
Oh how we lust after almost every product on the Urban retreat website, yes they are swiftly gaining ground on established players such as Space NK with their incredibly detailed approach to curating a collection of cult beauty brands that will make your heart melt. You can even put the vouchers towards treatments at the Urban Retreat centres across the UK. Buy one here.
Red Letter Days
Is it an experience you’re after? Something utterly unique that just cannot be replicated in a product? Then Red Letter Days is your source, from £20 -£1000 there’s sure to be something that no one else has thought of – and that’s what the best gifting is all about, no? Buy one here.
Agent Provocateur
‘The pleasure is all yours to give’ purrs the Agent Provocateur. And there’s no arguing with that. AP’s glorious – not to mention red hot – range of underwear is exactly the thing if you’ve got someone to impress, who also wants to impress you. Makes this your e-card destination domain. Buy one here.
The Gift Card Centre
Looking for a one-stop shop, full of a wide variety of amazing E-Gift Vouchers? Well look no further because at The Gift Card Centre you’ll be hard pushed not to find something that will delight, amaze and generally win you some much needed Brownie points. Whether it’s John Lewis, Mamas & Papas or a National Garden Gift Card you’re after, you’ll find it here under one roof. Buy one here.
Audible Gift Card
Who doesn’t love getting lost in a good audio book? An Audible gift card makes a truly thoughtful gift, allowing the recipient to escape into other worlds, whether at bedtime, or while they get on with other tasks. Buy one here.
Pong Cheese
Whether it’s for Christmas – or indeed any other time of year – give the gift of excellent cheese with Pong’s gift subscriptions boxes, from £24 per month. They say, ‘Choose 3, 6 or 12 months of these special selections and let the lucky recipient sit back, enjoy great seasonal flavour combinations and experience the best of our cheeses, from the UK and worldwide. Typically, each month, they’ll get 4 cheeses of approximately 50g to 200g each.’ Irresistible. Buy one here.
