Gifts for Employees & Staff: Ideas, Bulk Ordering & HMRC Rules
Welcome, reward and retain your staff with impactful corporate employee gifts and Christmas Gifts for employees and staff. Each gift includes a charitable donation made on your behalf.
Our Top Employee Gifts
This is a small selection of our most popular employee gifts this year. Take a look at our full collections for more gifting ideas for your staff.
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Staff Gifts and Tax: the £50 Trivial Benefits Rule
Most of the gifts on this page can go to your team without anyone paying tax on them.
HMRC's trivial benefits exemption lets you give an employee a gift worth £50 or less without it counting as a taxable benefit. There's no tax, no National Insurance and nothing to report, provided the gift meets all four conditions below.
What qualifies as a trivial benefit
- It costs £50 or less per person, including VAT.
- It isn't cash or a cash voucher. An eGift card is fine; cash, or anything exchangeable for cash, is not.
- It isn't a reward for work, performance or long service. A Christmas gift to everyone qualifies; a gift for hitting target doesn't.
- It isn't in their contract and isn't provided through salary sacrifice.
Three things that catch people out
- £50 is per person, not per order. Fifty gifts at £45 each all qualify; the cap applies to the cost per employee, not the total you spend.
- A penny over and the whole gift is taxable, not just the excess. A £52 gift is a £52 benefit in kind.
- Topping up the same gift card counts as one gift. Four £20 top-ups is an £80 benefit, not four £20 ones.
The full rules are on gov.uk: Expenses and benefits - trivial benefits.
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What is a good gift for employees?
Many companies are now focussing on employee health & wellbeing. If you’re doing the same, we’d suggest sending a gift that supports this theme. Alternatively you could choose a food & drink box, but leave the decision on dietary requirements up to the recipients using our self-registration service.
This service allows them to enter their own address details and also decide if they would like the box to be no alcohol and/or suitable for vegans & gluten-free diets.
Should managers give corporate gifts?
Rewarding staff for a job well done has benefits for everybody.
Recognised employees are happy employees, and happy employees are more productive. So for everyone involved, it’s a win!
How can I make employee gifts special?
Something as simple as adding a personalised message to your gift can show the recipient you’ve put some thought into their gift. If you’d like to do more you could add a branded product to the box.
Everyone likes to help out their community. That’s why all of our boxes include a charitable donation of either a meal to a homeless charity or £1 to the mental health charity MIND. We’ll let the recipient know their gift has helped somebody in need.
How much should you spend on employee gifts?
There's no right or wrong amount as it depends on your budget.In the UK, if you want to send a gift to your employees, keep in mind that as long as it costs less than £50 per person, it won’t be taxable under the Benefit in Kind rules.
Staff Gifting
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Gift Portals
Allow your recipients to choose from a selection of gifts with a fully branded Gift Portal.
Bespoke and Custom Gifts
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Employee Welcome Packs
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Gift Builder
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