Christmas Gifts

Twenty years of building Christmas Hampers has taught us one thing above all others: nobody is buying a hamper. They are buying the moment it gets opened — on a kitchen table, in an office at four o'clock on the last Friday, on a doorstep three hundred miles from the person who sent it.

So we build every hamper backwards from that moment. Our collection is organised across four dimensions — Types, Styles, Flavours and Price Points — and every single Christmas Hamper in it was designed with a particular family in mind. Not a demographic. A family. The one that opens everything at once before breakfast, the one that eats late and slowly, the one spread across three countries that will open the same hamper on a video call.

Find the family, and the hamper chooses itself.

Christmas Hampers, and Hampers for Christmas - The Difference

The most useful distinction we draw is one most people have never been offered, and it is worth thirty seconds of your time because it will halve your shortlist.

Christmas Hampers are the traditional ones. Rich fruitcake, hand-made chocolates, Christmas pudding, premium wine, the flavours that carry the whole weight of the season the moment they come out of the box. These are for the household that wants Christmas to taste the way Christmas has always tasted. Nothing to explain, nothing to be brave about. If the person you are sending to has strong opinions about how a Christmas cake should be, send them one of these.

Hampers for Christmas are the modern ones. Same occasion, same care, but the contents take a turn — imaginative flavours, small-producer preserves, something cured or smoked or fermented that the recipient has probably not met before. These are for the household that already has a favourite cheese shop and a strong view on chilli. They are also, quietly, the better corporate gift, because they give people something to talk about rather than something to politely thank you for.

Both are Christmas Hampers in the ordinary sense. The difference is whether the pleasure comes from recognition or from discovery.

How the Hamper Arrives, and What It Says - Our Types

The Type decides what goes in. The Style decides what it looks like when the lid comes off — and how loudly it speaks.

Traditional wicker is the classic: a lined basket that stays in the house long after the food has gone, and gets used for something else every year afterwards. It is the style that reads most clearly as a hamper.

Gift boxes are neater, stack better and travel harder. For office deliveries, apartment blocks and anywhere a large basket is more parcel than present, this is the sensible choice.

Wine and Cheese Hampers are their own style entirely — built around a pairing rather than a spread. A rich red against a vintage cheddar; a crisp white against something with a garlic tang. We introduced these because customers kept asking for a hamper that was a proper evening rather than a fortnight of grazing. They work at Christmas and they work in March, which is exactly why people keep buying them.

Corporate Hampers are built to be seen. If your gift is going to sit on a reception desk or be opened in front of a room, presentation is doing real work, and we design these accordingly — style and substance, in that visible order.

Family Hampers are built to be shared. Treats that children and young adults will actually reach for, in quantities that survive contact with a full house.

Flavours: Where the Real Choosing Happens

Type and Style narrow it down. Flavour is where you decide who this is really for.

Sweet — chocolate, biscuits, fudge, preserves, the fruitcake-and-pudding end of Christmas. The safest ground, and the reason it is safe is that it is genuinely loved.

Savoury — cheese, chutney, crackers, cured meats, olives, the things that get opened first and disappear fastest at a gathering.

Drinks-led — wine, port, prosecco and increasingly good alcohol-free options, alongside the tea, coffee and hot chocolate side of the season. A hamper built around what will be poured rather than what will be eaten.

Award-winning — our Great Taste Award range, where the flavour has been judged by people who taste for a living. We update this range every year, keeping the items that earned their place and adding the best of what our suppliers have launched since. It is the range to choose when you want the quality guaranteed by someone other than us.

Small producer and artisan — the unusual things. Items we first met through our Spring/Summer and Autumn collections and thought too good to keep out of Christmas. Choosing one of these supports a small food business through its most important trading month of the year, which is a second gift the recipient never sees.

Price Points: Straight Talk About What Things Cost

We would rather be honest about this than clever.

Food ingredient costs have risen hard over the last few years, and we have had to make small, gradual price increases to keep the quality where it is. That pushed some of our most popular hampers into higher brackets than the people who loved them expected. We did not think that was good enough.

So we built alternatives. Hampers that closely match the contents of our best-sellers from previous seasons, at price points reminiscent of Christmases past. Not cut-down versions — differently sourced, differently assembled, aimed squarely at holding a price we know people want to pay. Our economy range has been expanded again for 2026 for the same reason.

The originals are still here, with only modest adjustments. Between the two, the practical position is this: there is a hamper at the price you have in mind, and it is not the compromise you are bracing for.

Our range runs from around £55 for a smaller gift hamper that still lands properly, through to over £1,000 for our most substantial luxury Christmas Hampers. Whatever your budget, start there — filter by price first, then choose Type, Style and Flavour within it. It is a better route to a good decision than falling in love with something and then flinching.

Every Christmas Hamper Has a Family in Mind

This is the thread running through everything above.

The Wine and Cheese Hamper was designed for two people who like a slow evening. The Family Hamper was designed for a house with children in it and a floor covered in wrapping paper. The Corporate Hamper was designed for a team that will crowd round it at eleven in the morning. The economy alternatives were designed for someone who sends eight hampers every year and refuses to send seven this time.

When you are choosing, that is the question worth asking. Not what is the best hamper — there isn't one — but what does this family's Christmas actually look like? Answer that, and everything else on this page is just filtering.

Sending Christmas Hampers to the UK from Anywhere in the World

A large share of our customers do not live in the UK. They live in Australia, America, across Europe and Asia, and they are sending to people here — parents, children, old friends, colleagues.

We serve the whole of the United Kingdom, not the parts that are convenient. Every postcode, including the ones that make other carriers hesitate. Choose the hamper, choose the delivery date and address, and we take it from there. Each one is hand-packed with care and checked before it leaves us, so it arrives in the condition you imagined when you ordered it.

Christmas 2026 order deadlines: 22 December for the UK and Ireland, stock permitting. 15 December for Europe. Order earlier than that if you can — the hampers people want most are the ones that sell out first, and they rarely come back before January.

Small Christmas Hamper Company, Serious About Food

We are not the biggest Christmas Hamper company in the UK, and we have never tried to be. Scale, in this trade, is bought with the food. Every step up in volume is a step towards buying cheaper and hoping nobody notices.

We would rather stay the size where we can walk the tightrope properly — paying more for better ingredients, while protecting the value for people who trust us to send a gift that represents them. That means eco-friendly packaging because it is the right way to send a parcel, and small producers in the range because their food is good enough to earn the place.

Twenty years of returning customers suggests the trade-off is the right one.

Ready to Find the Perfect Xmas Gift?

Browse the full collection below. Filter by price to set your ground, then by Type, Style and Flavour to find the one built for your family.

If nothing is quite right, tell us — bespoke requests, personal messages and special adjustments are handled by a real person on our team, usually the same day.

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Christmas Hamper Questions, Answered

What actually is a Christmas Hamper?

A Christmas Hamper is a curated selection of festive food and drink, packed together in a wicker basket or gift box and sent as a single gift. The idea is that it arrives complete — nothing to add, nothing missing. A good one is chosen so the contents work together over the Christmas period rather than sitting as a pile of unrelated items.

What is the difference between a Christmas Hamper and a Hamper for Christmas?

It is our own distinction, and it is the most useful one we can give you. Christmas Hampers hold the traditional flavours — fruitcake, Christmas pudding, hand-made chocolates, premium wine. Hampers for Christmas hold modern and imaginative food that happens to be sent at Christmas — artisan preserves, cured and smoked items, unfamiliar flavours worth discovering. Traditional recognition, or modern discovery. Choose the one that matches the household.

Is a Christmas Hamper the same as a Christmas Gift Basket?

In practice, yes — the words are used interchangeably, and our customers use both. Hamper is the older British term and usually implies a lined wicker basket; gift basket is more common with our overseas customers. Whichever term you searched for, you are in the right place.

What is inside a typical Basketsgalore Xmas Hamper?

It depends entirely on the hamper, which is why we sort the collection by Type, Style, Flavour and Price. Every product page lists its full contents item by item, with weights, so you know exactly what is being sent. As a broad guide: sweeter hampers lean towards chocolate, biscuits and cake; savoury hampers towards cheese, chutney and crackers; drinks-led hampers are built around wine, port or prosecco with food chosen to match. Nearly all the hampers in our Christmas pages will contain the sort of seasonal fayre that you would expect in an Xmas hamper, but not during the rest of the year.  This is important because it means that our Christmas Catalogue is limited to first come first served, whilst our standard Hampers can be made to order, just as they are throughout the year subject to stock and availability.   

How much should I spend on a Christmas Hamper?

The most frequent purchases are in the £100-£120 range.  However that range spans from around £55 to over £2500, and the honest answer is that we sell just as many sub £100 Christmas Hampers and just as many above £120.   It is incredibly labour intensive, so to be as efficient as we possibly can, we structure availability according to demand.  There is a genuine hamper at every point on the scale, not a stripped-down version of a better one.

When is the last date to order Christmas Hampers?

Our final order date for pre-Christmas delivery is 22 December for addresses in the UK and Ireland, stock permitting. For Europe the cut-off is 15 December. We recommend ordering earlier than the deadline for the popular hampers — the ones people want most are the ones that sell out first, and they rarely come back before January. 

Can I send a Christmas Hamper to the UK from another country?

Yes, and a large share of our customers do exactly that. You order from wherever you are, we deliver anywhere in the UK. It is one of the main reasons people find us — sending festive food to family in Britain is difficult from abroad, and we exist to make it a single transaction rather than a logistics problem.

Do you deliver Christmas Hampers to every part of the UK?

Yes. Every UK postcode, including the Highlands, the islands and Northern Ireland — the addresses that other senders often surcharge or quietly decline. You choose the delivery date at checkout and we work to it.

Are there alcohol-free Christmas Hampers?

Yes. We build hampers with no alcohol at all, and the non-alcoholic options available now are far better than they were even a few years ago. There are also hampers built around tea, coffee and hot chocolate rather than drinks of any kind. Browse our Alcohol Free Christmas Hampers, or ask us and we will point you to the right ones.

Can I get a Christmas Hamper for someone with allergies or a special diet?

Tell us what is needed and we will build around it. Nut-free, vegetarian and other dietary adjustments are handled by a real person on our team rather than an automated filter. Full ingredient and allergen information is listed on every product, and if you are unsure, ask before you order rather than hoping.

Do you do corporate Christmas Hampers and multiple addresses?

Yes. Corporate Xmas Hampers are a significant part of what we do — client gifts, staff gifts and single hampers for a whole office. We handle multi-address orders, so you send one instruction and we deliver to a hundred different places, each with its own message. Bespoke contents and branded presentation are available for larger orders.

Can I add a personal message to a Christmas Hamper?

Always, and at no extra cost. Add your message at checkout and it goes in with the hamper. If you want something more unusual — a particular card, a specific item added, contents adjusted — say so and we will tell you straight away whether we can do it.

How long will the food in a Christmas Hamper keep?

Everything we send has a good margin of shelf life beyond Christmas, so a hamper opened on the day can still be eaten through January. Items with shorter dates are noted on the product page. We assemble to order rather than packing months ahead, which is why our hampers arrive fresher than the shelf-stock model allows.