Christmas is the single biggest corporate gifting event of the year in the UK - and the one businesses most reliably leave too late. Between staff gifts, client thank yous and everything in between, December gifting can turn into a scramble unless it's planned well before the tinsel goes up. Here's how to do it properly.
Why Christmas Gifting Deserves Its Own Plan
Unlike a birthday or a one-off thank you, Christmas gifting usually needs to happen for everyone at once - your whole team, your key clients, sometimes both - on a fixed deadline that doesn't move. That combination of volume and a hard date is exactly why it needs planning earlier than most businesses think.
Staff Gifts vs Client Gifts
These two lists deserve different treatment. Staff Christmas gifts tend to work best kept warm and personal - a candle with a name or a short message from the team feels considered without being extravagant. Client gifts carry more weight commercially, and this is where a slightly more premium personalised gift, sent with genuine thanks for the year's work together, tends to land best.
When to Order
Personalised and bespoke gifts take longer to produce than anything off-the-shelf, and December is, unsurprisingly, our busiest month. If you want your order guaranteed for early-to-mid December delivery, get your brief to us in November at the latest - earlier if your list runs into the hundreds or needs to be split across multiple offices or home addresses.
Keeping It Feeling Personal at Volume
The trap with Christmas gifting is that as numbers grow, gifts tend to get more generic to keep things simple. It doesn't have to be that way - every candle we send out can still carry an individual name, even across a company-wide order, which is what keeps a Christmas gift from feeling like it came from a warehouse rather than from your business.
Corporate Christmas Gifting at Kindred Fires
We hand-pour and personalise every candle to order, whether it's a handful of client gifts or Christmas gifts for an entire company. Start your order through our corporate gifting page, or browse our Christmas gift collection for ideas. For the wider picture on planning your gifting calendar, read our Ultimate Guide to Corporate Gifting in the UK.