Every office has one. The cupboard where last year’s gifts went to retire. A mug with a competitor’s logo on it. Four unopened notebooks. A branded tote that has never once been to a shop.
Christmas hampers for staff sit in a different category, because food and drink has one enormous advantage over everything else on the merch shelf: it gets used. Nobody has ever put a bottle of Crémant in a drawer and forgotten about it. If you drink and you HAVE left it in a drawer and forgotten about it…we are questioning certain things…
The trick is picking a Christmas hamper for your staff that says something about your company beyond “we had budget in November”. Here’s our 2026 range of hampers, what’s inside each box, and the bit most gifting guides skip: what each one funds.
What separates a good staff hamper from a tin of biscuits
A good corporate Christmas hamper has three things: products people will finish, a price that scales to your headcount, and a dietary option so nobody on the team gets handed a box they can’t eat.
Our Christmas hampers are carefully selected by our staff who have a number of years experience in social enterprise and sustainability vetting. We’ve chosen these social enterprises for their individual stories, whether it’s pretzels that donate to schoolchildren in Ghana or ethical chocolate that gives back to the farmers growing them, there’s something for everyone here at every price range to boot.
In 2025, Social Supermarket customers collectively supported 200 social enterprises, planted 2,512 trees, and diverted 6,500kg of surplus food from waste.
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The 2026 Christmas hamper range: eight hampers, £20 to £100
Social Supermarket’s 2026 Christmas hamper range has eight curated boxes priced from £20 to £100 excluding VAT, with a minimum order of 100 units on made-to-order hampers.
| Hamper | Price (ex VAT) | Format | Items |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dinky Delights | £20 | Letterbox | 7 |
| For Choc’s Sake | £35 | Small box | 9 |
| The Good Pairing | £35 | Small box | 8 |
| Cork & Crunch | £40 | Large box | 7 |
| Two Wine or Not To Wine | £50 | Large box | 8 |
| Crème de la Crémant | £50 | Large box | 7 |
| Merry & Free (From) | £50 | Regular box, dietary | 8 |
| All the Trimmings | £100 | Rope basket | 11 |
Prices exclude shipping unless stated. Delivery is included on All the Trimmings.
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Dinky Delights, RRP £20: chocolate that hands farmers a share of the profits
Seven proper chocolate treats, small enough for a letterbox, which makes it the sensible pick when your team is spread across kitchen tables in six different postcodes.
Inside: Divine Chocolate dark bar, Forest Feast sour cherries, Island Bakery chocolate gingers and shortbread, Tony’s Chocolonely sharing bar, Blendsmiths house choc blend, Candy Kittens Smittens.
The good it does: Divine is the first farmer-owned Fairtrade chocolate brand, so more than 100,000 Ghanaian cocoa farmers hold a share of the profits. Blendsmiths sends 10% of every sachet to Mustard Tree, a homelessness charity on their doorstep.
For Choc’s Sake, £35: a chocolate box with a traceable supply chain
Nine items for the people who consider chocolate a food group. Salted caramel meringue, tiramisu dessert bar, chilli pretzels, Christmas pudding fudge, hot chocolate stirrer.
The good it does: Up-Up Chocolate is certified slave and child labour free, with a supply chain traced back to the plantation in Colombia. School Yard Kitchen works with farmers in Ghana and puts every bit of surplus towards preventing child labour.
The Good Pairing, £35: wine that funds UK conservation
Eight items covering everything a good cheese secretly wishes it came with. Two small bottles from The Uncommon, sea salt thins, caramelised onion marmalade, sticky fig relish, mochi rice bites, chilli pretzels, green olives.
The good it does: The Uncommon is the UK’s first B Corp certified wine company, growing its grapes in the Southeast and putting 5% of revenue into UK conservation projects. Tracklements is a B Corp making condiments by hand on 100% renewable electricity with its own on-site water treatment.
Cork & Crunch, £40: beer brewed from rescued bread
Seven items. Wine, ale, crisps, olives, chutney, biscuits, chocolate. Pour, crunch, repeat.
The good it does: Toast Brewing has brewed craft beer using surplus bakery bread instead of malted barley since 2016, saving over 4 million slices from waste and donating 100% of distributable profits to environmental charities. Fruits of the Forage makes its preserves from forgotten hedgerows, abandoned orchards and surplus local crops.
Two Wine or Not To Wine, £50: two bottles that fund ocean conservation
Eight items, two bottles, no dilemma. A Sea Change red and rosé, plus piccalilli, pink olives, tapas crisps, salted caramel chocolate, Eton Mess sweets and butterscotch popcorn.
The good it does: Sea Change donates to marine conservation charities with every plastic-free bottle sold, and has raised over €750,000 to date.
Crème de la Crémant, £50: fizz that funds art workshops
Seven items built around a bottle of Sea Change Crémant de Limoux, with seeded sourdough crackers, double cheese biscuits, vegan vanilla fudge, shortbread, sour cherries and dark chocolate buttons.
The good it does: Arthouse Unlimited is a charity whose chocolate revenue funds art workshops for adults living with complex neuro-diverse and physical support needs.
Merry & Free (From), £50: the hamper nobody has to opt out of
Eight items, vegan and gluten friendly, free from the usual suspects. Lemongrass and ginger tea, vegan sweet shop box, double chocolate chip cookies, onion marmalade, white choc blend, free-from savoury biscuits, salted caramel crispies, orange caramel bar.
This is the one that saves you from the “sorry, can you eat any of this?” email thread in mid-December.
The good it does: Sweet Lounge makes award-winning vegan sweets in the UK’s only fully compostable retail packaging, sparing over 350,000 pieces of single-use plastic from oceans and landfill. NEMI Teas brews organic Fairtrade blends that fund employment and hospitality training for refugees. Harry Specters handcrafts its chocolate in Cambridgeshire while creating paid employment for autistic people.
All the Trimmings: eleven indulgent items that give back – something for everyone!
The showstopper. Crémant, Grenache red, pale ale, olive snacks, mochi bites, pretzel thins, tiramisu chocolate, a giant chocolate coin, meringue bar, hot chocolate stirrer and a festive chocolate cracker. Delivery included.
The good it does: Coco Chocolatier is a certified B Corp running an “Impact Trade” model that manufactures chocolate at origin in Colombia, keeping wealth and skilled jobs inside local farming communities.
Christmas hampers for clients: when the box needs to do some talking
Client Christmas hampers work best when the products carry a story the recipient will repeat, which is why impact labelling matters more on client gifts than on staff gifts.
Staff already know what your company stands for. Clients are still deciding. A hamper where every item has a founder and a reason behind it gives your account manager something to say on the follow-up call that isn’t “did you get the wine”.
For key contacts, made-to-order Sea Change wine gift boxes come in ones, twos or sixes, with a choice of Crémant, Syrah Rosé, Grenache Red, Prosecco or Pinot Grigio. Every bottle donates to ocean conservation. Packaging can be branded with your logo and colours, so your brand does the talking before the cork is out. Minimum order 50.
Build your own, if none of the eight quite fits
Social Supermarket’s build-your-own hamper tool lets you pick a box, choose the products, add branding and see the cumulative impact as you build, with a minimum of 100 units per order.
Browse by category, filter by colour, tap the leaf on any product to see the good it does. Add what you want, adjust quantities, then download a PDF of your custom hamper and send it over. You’ll hear back within 12 hours.
Company Christmas hampers at scale, without the spreadsheet
Corporate hamper orders in the thousands are handled through warehousing across the UK and Europe, with live stock levels, delivery tracking, cXML catalogues, SSO and finance and CRM integration.
Equans needed 13,000 Christmas gifts worth keeping. The result was an eleven-item hamper of hand-picked food and drink, each item with a social-impact backstory, in seeded packaging that grows into flowers. The carbon from production to doorstep was crunched and offset through a UN-certified project.
Eight tonnes of Fairtrade chocolate. Ten tonnes of carbon offset. Thirteen thousand parcels, delivered on time.
Delivering over 13,000 parcels across the UK can be a challenge, but this was the smoothest delivery experience we have had to date.” – Karolina Mikolajczyk, Procurement Manager
If addresses are the problem rather than the products, the Team Gifting Platform sends one branded link and lets recipients choose their own gift and enter their own address. No postcode chasing, no dietary guesswork.
Christmas hamper order deadlines for 2026
Made-to-order hampers close on 15 September 2026. Curated range orders should be placed by 15 October for early delivery, or 15 November for Christmas delivery.
- 15 September: deadline for made-to-order and build-your-own hampers, minimum 100 units per hamper
- 15 October: order the curated range for early delivery
- 15 November: final deadline for Christmas delivery
Hamper prices include standard 48-hour delivery to UK mainland. Next day and named day are available on request. EU and non-mainland shipping is quoted on request. Gift messages up to 240 characters are included with every order.
FAQs
How much should a company spend on a Christmas hamper for staff? Most UK companies budget £20 to £50 per head for staff Christmas hampers. £20 covers a letterbox chocolate box, £35 to £40 covers a full food and drink spread, and £50 covers a two-bottle or dietary-inclusive hamper.
What is the minimum order for corporate Christmas hampers? The curated range of eight hampers has no minimum. Made-to-order and build-your-own hampers have a minimum of 100 units per hamper.
Can Christmas hampers be branded with our logo? Yes. Packaging on made-to-order gifts and wine boxes can be branded with your logo and company colours on request.
Are there alcohol-free and gluten-free corporate hampers? Yes. Merry & Free (From) is vegan and gluten friendly, and alcohol-free options are available across the range. Hampers containing alcohol can only be ordered by customers aged 18 or over.
Can you deliver Christmas hampers to individual home addresses? Yes. Bulk address upload handles multiple destinations, and the Team Gifting Platform lets recipients enter their own address instead.
Can you ship corporate Christmas hampers internationally? Yes. Social Supermarket ships to the EU and beyond from warehouses in the UK and Europe, quoted on request.
What counts as a sustainable corporate Christmas hamper? A sustainable hamper uses recyclable or compostable packaging and sources from producers with verifiable social or environmental outcomes, such as Fairtrade certification, B Corp status or social enterprise status.
Ready to sort Christmas before October arrives
Disposable gifting has had its day. Ditch it with us.
Book a call with the team and we’ll show you the eight hampers, the price points that fit your headcount, and the impact report you’ll be able to hand upstairs in January.
