Social Supermarket’s 2026 client Christmas hampers bring together 30 makers, from farmer-owned Divine Chocolate to bread-rescuing Toast Brewing, in eight hampers priced £20 to £100 ex VAT. Order by 15 October for early delivery, or by 15 November for delivery before Christmas.
Little test for you – name the corporate gift you got last Christmas. Take your time. Most people land on “a mug, possibly?” and change the subject. The promo industry has spent decades perfecting the forgettable present, and it shows.
Now picture a bar of chocolate co-owned by 100,000 cocoa farmers in Ghana. Your client opens it, reads the wrapper and walks into the next team lunch with a story. Guess which gift they’ll remember, and who sent it.
This guide introduces the people behind our 2026 range: brewers rescuing bread, winemakers funding the ocean, chocolatiers changing who gets paid. Pick by budget, pick by cause, or pick the one with the best snacks. We won’t tell.
The boring bit, delivered quickly: prices are ex VAT, and shipping, handling and a printed gift note add £5.99 per hamper to UK mainland addresses. All the Trimmings includes delivery, because at £100 it felt rude not to.
Client Christmas hampers at a glance (for the skim readers)
Eight lead makers headline Social Supermarket’s 2026 client hampers, one per hamper, with alcohol-free, vegan and letterbox options from £20 ex VAT.
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Lead maker |
What your order funds |
Find them in |
Price (ex VAT) |
Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Divine Chocolate |
A profit share for 100,000+ Ghanaian cocoa farmers |
Dinky Delights (letterbox) |
£20 |
Long client lists, people working from home |
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Up-Up Chocolate |
Slave and child labour free cocoa, traced to the plantation in Colombia |
For Choc’s Sake |
£35 |
Alcohol-free sends |
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We Are The Uncommon |
5% of revenue to UK conservation projects |
The Good Pairing |
£35 |
Clients who host |
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Toast Brewing |
100% of distributable profits to environmental charities |
Cork & Crunch |
£40 |
The client who prefers a pint |
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Sea Change |
Donations to marine conservation with every bottle |
Two Wine or Not To Wine |
£50 |
Client teams who share |
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Arthouse Unlimited |
Art workshops for adults with complex support needs |
Crème de la Crémant |
£50 |
Celebrating a closed deal |
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Harry Specters |
Paid jobs and work experience for autistic people |
Merry & Free (From) |
£50 |
Vegan, unknown dietary needs |
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COCO Chocolatier |
Chocolate made at origin in Colombia, keeping jobs local |
All the Trimmings |
£100, delivery included |
Your top accounts |
Why your client hamper needs a backstory
A named maker with a specific cause gives your client a story to repeat, and gives your team proof the budget did some good.
Ask a promo supplier about a product and you’ll hear the unit price, the print method and the lead time. Ask who made it and you’ll hear hold music. That’s how a tote with bleeding print ends up in a client’s cupboard, next to a hamper padded with crackers nobody would choose on purpose.
Then December arrives with its usual surprises. The Paris office can’t receive food from the UK. Half the client list in the spreadsheet left their jobs in July. Forty boxes spend Christmas in a customs depot, having a lovely time without anyone.
Know your makers and most of that never happens. You know what’s in the box, who it helps, what it’s free from and whether it can cross a border, weeks before anything leaves the warehouse.
Meet the makers (and the client Christmas hampers they fill)
Each entry covers one lead maker: who they are, what your order funds, and the hamper you’ll find them in.
Divine Chocolate: co-owned by 100,000 Ghanaian cocoa farmers
Divine Chocolate, the first farmer-owned Fairtrade chocolate brand, features in Dinky Delights, Social Supermarket’s £20 letterbox client Christmas hamper.
More than 100,000 cocoa farmers in Ghana co-own Divine and take a share of its profits. They get paid for the beans, then paid again when the bar sells. Most chocolate supply chains stop at step one.
Find them in: Dinky Delights | £20 ex VAT | Letterbox, 7 items
Small enough for the letterbox, so nobody has to sign for it, and nobody finds it in January in an office that shut for the holidays. Also in the box: Blendsmiths, which sends 10% of every hot chocolate sachet to Mustard Tree, a homelessness charity on its own doorstep.
Inside: Divine dark chocolate bar (35g), Forest Feast dark chocolate sour cherries (40g), Island Bakery chocolate gingers and shortbread, Tony’s Chocolonely milk chocolate sharing bar (180g), Blendsmiths House Choc Blend (20g), Candy Kittens Smittens Blueberry Edit (130g).
Up-Up Chocolate: no slave or child labour, traced to the plantation
Up-Up Chocolate holds slave and child labour free certification and features in For Choc’s Sake, a £35 alcohol-free chocolate hamper for clients.
Up-Up can name the plantation in Colombia its cocoa comes from, and its slave and child labour free certification backs that up. Ask the average chocolate bar where its cocoa grew and you’ll get a shrug in foil.
Find them in: For Choc’s Sake | £35 ex VAT | Small box, 9 items
For the client who files chocolate under “food groups”. Also in the box: School Yard Kitchen, a social enterprise working with farmers in Ghana that puts every bit of surplus towards preventing child labour, and Cotswold Fudge Co, which hand-makes Fairtrade-certified fudge in Oxfordshire. Including Christmas pudding fudge. You’re welcome.
Inside: Candy Kittens Treets Crunchy Corn (120g), Flower & White salted caramel meringue bar (20g), Up-Up milk chocolate bar (60g), Island Bakery chocolate gingers and shortbread, School Yard Kitchen dark chocolate chilli pretzels (37g), Divine tiramisu dessert bar (180g), Cotswold Fudge Co Christmas pudding fudge (150g), Gnaw caramel hot chocolate stirrer.
The Uncommon: the UK’s first B Corp wine company
The Uncommon, the UK’s first B Corp certified wine company, features in The Good Pairing, a £35 cheese board hamper for clients.
The Uncommon grows its grapes in the South East of England and puts 5% of its revenue into UK conservation projects. English wine, B Corp certified, in a size small enough to justify on a Tuesday.
Find them in: The Good Pairing | £35 ex VAT | Small box, 8 items
Everything a cheese board needs except the cheese, which leaves your client exactly one job. Also in the box: Tracklements, a Wiltshire B Corp that has handmade condiments for over 50 years on 100% renewable electricity, and treats its own waste water on site.
Inside: The Uncommon still rosé and bubbly white (187ml each), Popti Cornish Bakehouse sea salt thins, Tracklements caramelised onion marmalade (210g) and sticky fig relish (110g), Mr Filbert’s black pepper mochi rice bites (40g), School Yard Kitchen dark chocolate chilli pretzels (37g), Olly’s garlic and basil green olives (50g).
Toast Brewing: beer brewed from 4 million slices of rescued bread
Toast Brewing, a London B Corp brewery, has brewed with surplus bakery bread since 2016 and features in Cork & Crunch, a £40 wine and beer hamper for clients.
Toast Brewing makes beer from the bread bakeries would otherwise bin, and has kept over 4 million slices out of the skip since 2016. Then it gives 100% of distributable profits to environmental charities, so the second round does some good too.
Find them in: Cork & Crunch | £40 ex VAT | Large box, 7 items
For the client who’d swap a petit four for a pint without blinking. Wine, beer and a savoury-to-sweet spread. Pour, crunch, repeat. Also in the box: Fruits of the Forage, which turns forgotten hedgerows, abandoned orchards and surplus local crops into chutney.
Inside: Sea Change Grenache Rouge, Mr Filbert’s chorizo Spanish tapas crisps, Fruits of the Forage cider and onion chutney (200g), Up-Up original milk chocolate bar (60g), Olly’s green olives (50g), Toast Grassroots Ale, Good Guys cheddar biscuits.
Sea Change: wine that has raised £750,000 for the ocean
Sea Change, a family-owned wine brand that donates to marine conservation with every bottle, supplies both wines in Two Wine or Not To Wine, a £50 client hamper.
Every bottle of Sea Change sends money to marine conservation charities, and the running total has passed £750,000. The packaging skips plastic altogether: lightweight glass, natural corks and labels made partly from grape waste. Cheers to that, says the ocean.
Find them in: Two Wine or Not To Wine | £50 ex VAT | Large box, 8 items
A red, a rosé and enough crisps, olives and sweets to see them off. Built for sharing round the client’s office, or for hiding in a desk drawer. We’ll leave that call to them. Sea Change also turns up in Cork & Crunch, Crème de la Crémant and All the Trimmings, because good wine gets around.
Inside: Sea Change Grenache red and Syrah rosé, Mr Filbert’s chorizo Spanish tapas crisps (125g), Tracklements Particularly British Piccalilli (230g), Olly’s chilli and rosemary pink olives (50g), Up-Up salted caramel chocolate bar (60g), Candy Kittens Eton Mess (140g), Popcorn Shed butterscotch snack pack (24g).
Arthouse Unlimited: chocolate that funds art workshops
Arthouse Unlimited, a charity that funds art workshops for adults with complex support needs, makes the chocolate buttons in Crème de la Crémant, a £50 client hamper.
Every bag of Arthouse Unlimited buttons helps pay for art workshops for adults living with complex neurodiverse and physical support needs. Your client gets dark chocolate. The artists get studio time. Everyone wins, apart from the client’s January resolutions.
Find them in: Crème de la Crémant | £50 ex VAT | Large box, 7 items
A bottle worth popping and a board worth building around it. Save this one for the week a deal closes, when “thanks” over email feels a bit thin. Also in the box: Sea Change Crémant de Limoux and Cotswold Fudge Co vegan vanilla fudge, made with Fairtrade ingredients.
Inside: Sea Change Crémant de Limoux, Forest Feast dark chocolate sour cherries (40g), Island Bakery shortbread, Cotswold Fudge Co vegan vanilla fudge (140g), Ffionagh’s seeded sourdough crackers, Yellow Submarine double cheese biscuits (66g), Arthouse Unlimited dark chocolate buttons.
Harry Specters: chocolatiers creating jobs for autistic people
Harry Specters, a Cambridgeshire social enterprise employing autistic people, makes the orange caramel bar in Merry & Free (From), a £50 vegan Christmas hamper for clients with mixed dietary needs.
Harry Specters handcrafts award-winning chocolate in Cambridgeshire and creates paid jobs and work experience for autistic people. Its vegan orange caramel bar anchors a hamper built so nobody on the client list gets the sad box.
Find them in: Merry & Free (From) | £50 ex VAT | Regular box, 8 items, vegan and gluten friendly
For the client list where nobody can remember who’s vegan, who’s off gluten and who started Dry January in November. Also in the box: NEMI Teas, whose organic Fairtrade blends fund employment and hospitality training for refugees, and Sweet Lounge, whose vegan sweets come in the UK’s only fully compostable retail packaging, sparing over 350,000 pieces of single-use plastic.
Inside: NEMI lemongrass and ginger tea (15 bags), Sweet Lounge mini sweet shop gift box (195g), Island Bakery Sweet FA double chocolate chip cookies, Tracklements caramelised onion marmalade (210g), Blendsmiths white choc blend (20g), Angelic free-from savoury biscuits (150g), Lazy Day salted caramel crispies (150g), Harry Specters orange caramel bar (100g).
COCO Chocolatier: chocolate made in Colombia
COCO Chocolatier, a B Corp that makes its chocolate at origin in Colombia, features in All the Trimmings, Social Supermarket’s £100 premium client Christmas hamper.
Most chocolate gets grown in one country and made in another, and the money tends to follow the factory. COCO Chocolatier’s Impact Trade model keeps the whole job in Colombia, bean to bar, so the wealth and the skilled jobs stay with the farming communities.
Find them in: All the Trimmings | £100 ex VAT, delivery included | Rope basket, 11 items
For the accounts you’d hate to explain losing. Bubbly, red, ale, chocolate and a rope basket that outlives the snacks by years. Also in the basket: Sea Change crémant and red, Toast Brewing pale ale and two Divine Chocolate bars.
Inside: Sea Change Crémant de Limoux and Grenache red, Mr Filbert’s lemon and oregano olive snack (50g) and black pepper mochi rice bites (40g), Olly’s sour cream pretzel thins (35g), Divine tiramisu and coffee bean chocolate (180g) and giant chocolate coin (58g), Toast Brewing Grassroots Pale Ale (330ml), Flower & White chocolate crunch meringue bar (20g), Gnaw caramel hot chocolate stirrer, COCO Chocolatier festive cracker milk chocolate (80g).
Not a hamper person? Single gifts from more makers
Harry Specters, Miss Macaroon, Cotswold Fudge Co and Sea Change also sell individual client gifts through Social Supermarket, from £7.50 fudge boxes to branded wine boxes made to order.
Luxury chocolates that create jobs for autistic people
Harry Specters boxes and hampers run from £30 to £95 ex VAT. Pick the Plant-Powered Christmas House Selection (16 chocolates, £30) for a wide list, or the Christmas Ultimate Indulgence hamper (£95) for the client who signed the big renewal.
Macarons that train care leavers and ex-offenders
Pastry chef Rosie Ginday MBE founded Miss Macaroon in Birmingham in 2011. It trains and employs disadvantaged young people, ex-offenders and care leavers, and reinvests 100% of profits into that work. Hampers run from £30 to £70, including a Sea Change Rosé Prosecco pairing and an alcohol-free chocolate lovers’ hamper with halal macarons.
Fairtrade fudge made with sustainably sourced palm oil
Cotswold Fudge Co hand-makes Fairtrade-certified fudge in Oxfordshire. Gift boxes of 250g cost £7.50, bag hampers run from £18 to £26, and the large vegan hamper costs £26. Nut-free and alcohol-free combinations come on request. Small, sweet and suspiciously easy to finish in one sitting.
Branded wine boxes that fund ocean conservation
Sea Change wine comes made to order in ones, twos or sixes, with a minimum order of 50. Choose from Crémant, Syrah rosé, Grenache red, Prosecco and Pinot Grigio, then put your logo on a wooden single, double or six-bottle box, or a cardboard carrier. Your logo on the box, ocean conservation in the bottle. Email info@socialsupermarket.org for prices.
How to choose a client Christmas hamper without a spreadsheet meltdown
Match the gift to the client’s diet, location and drinking habits first, then to the size of the account.
- Tier your list. A simple split: a £20 letterbox box for the wider list, a £50 hamper to key contacts and All the Trimmings to the handful of accounts that keep the lights on. Or pick by cause: Divine or Up-Up for fair cocoa, Sea Change for the ocean, Merry & Free (From) for refugee and autistic employment.
- Don’t know their diet? Send Merry & Free (From), or let them choose. Our Team Gifting Platform sends each client one link: they pick a gift from the range you approve and add the address they want it sent to. Nothing gets paid for until they accept.
- Some clients don’t drink. Dinky Delights, For Choc’s Sake and Merry & Free (From) contain no alcohol. Gifts containing alcohol can only go to recipients aged 18 or over.
- Half the list works from home. Dinky Delights fits through a letterbox, so nobody has to sign for it or collect it from the depot.
- Clients abroad. We ship to the EU and beyond on quote. For food restrictions and duties, we can set up separate UK and international gift pages, so nobody receives a hamper that can’t clear customs.
- Make it look like yours. All packaging can carry your logo and colours on request, and every order includes a printed message of up to 240 characters.
- Prove the spend. Each gift comes with impact labels and reporting, so you can show leadership what the budget funded in jobs, waste and carbon.
Short on time? It’s Q4, so of course you are. Send us your client list and budget, and your account manager will come back with a recommendation for each tier. You approve it, we pack it.
When to order client Christmas hampers in 2026 (spoiler: soon)
Order Social Supermarket’s Christmas hampers by 15 October for early delivery, or by 15 November for delivery before Christmas.
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Deadline |
What it gets you |
|---|---|
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15 October 2026 |
Early delivery, so gifts land before the December rush and before offices empty out |
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15 November 2026 |
Delivery before Christmas |
Standard delivery takes 48 hours to the UK mainland, with next day and named day delivery on request. If you need several hundred hampers sent to several hundred addresses, tell us now. Your account manager will plan the most efficient route, whether that means one central drop or a delivery to every client’s door.
Client Christmas hampers: FAQs
Who makes Social Supermarket’s Christmas hampers for clients?
Thirty makers supply the 2026 Christmas hampers. They include Divine Chocolate, Up-Up Chocolate, School Yard Kitchen, Harry Specters, COCO Chocolatier, Arthouse Unlimited, Sea Change, We Are The Uncommon, Toast Brewing, Tracklements, Fruits of the Forage, NEMI Teas, Sweet Lounge, Blendsmiths, Cotswold Fudge Co, Tony’s Chocolonely and Island Bakery.
Which client gifts support specific causes?
For cocoa farmers, choose Divine Chocolate (Dinky Delights, For Choc’s Sake, All the Trimmings) or COCO Chocolatier (All the Trimmings). For the ocean, choose Sea Change wine (Cork & Crunch, Two Wine or Not To Wine, Crème de la Crémant, All the Trimmings). For food waste, choose Toast Brewing (Cork & Crunch, All the Trimmings). For refugee and autistic employment, choose Merry & Free (From), with NEMI Teas and Harry Specters. For homelessness, Blendsmiths features in Dinky Delights and Merry & Free (From).
What should go in a client Christmas hamper?
A client Christmas hamper works best with a mix of something to drink, something savoury and something sweet, from makers your client can look up. Social Supermarket’s 2026 range offers eight, from a £20 letterbox chocolate box to a £100 rope basket with crémant, red wine and craft ale, made by 30 makers including farmer-owned Divine Chocolate, B Corp Tracklements and social enterprise Harry Specters.
How much does a client Christmas hamper cost?
The 2026 range costs £20 to £100 ex VAT, which lets you send a letterbox gift to a wide list, a £35 to £50 hamper to key contacts and a £100 hamper to your largest accounts.
Do you have vegan or alcohol-free Christmas hampers for clients?
Yes. Merry & Free (From) holds eight vegan, gluten-friendly treats for £50 ex VAT. Dinky Delights (£20), For Choc’s Sake (£35) and Merry & Free (From) contain no alcohol.
Can I send client Christmas hampers outside the UK?
Yes. Social Supermarket ships to the EU and beyond on quote. For clients in several countries, we can split UK and international gift pages so each recipient only sees gifts that can reach them.
Can I add my company logo or a message?
Yes. Packaging can carry your logo and brand colours on request, and every order includes a printed gift message of up to 240 characters.
When is the deadline for client Christmas hampers in 2026?
Order by 15 October 2026 for early delivery and by 15 November 2026 for delivery before Christmas. Standard delivery takes 48 hours to the UK mainland.
How do I show the impact of our client gifts?
Every gift comes with impact labels and reporting that show what your order funded, such as jobs for refugees or surplus food saved from waste. In 2025, Social Supermarket customers supported 200 social enterprises, planted 2,512 trees and saved 6,500kg of surplus food from going to waste.
Send the list, we’ll handle the rest
You bring the client list and the budget. We bring 30 makers, the hampers, the branding, the delivery plan and a report your finance team can read in under a minute. Fifteen minutes on a call and your Christmas gifting is sorted before the November panic sets in.
Book a call with the team or email info@socialsupermarket.org.
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