New starters
Welcome pack ideas for new starters
Eight things a new starter will use in week one, what to leave out, and how to get the pack there before day one.
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Corporate gift ideas for every occasion and milestone
Good corporate gift ideas start with the moment, not the product. Each guide below gives ideas with a reason for every one, when to send and how to reach people wherever they work.
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Work anniversaries
Long service awards and work anniversary gifts
Nine ideas that step up with the years, from a first anniversary to ten and beyond, plus HMRC’s long-service rules to check.
Leavers and alumni
Leaving gifts for colleagues, and alumni swag worth keeping
Notice can be a week, so plan ahead: ten ideas from a signed card to alumni swag former staff will actually wear.
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Corporate gift ideas for each moment.
Twelve ideas from our three occasion guides, each with the reason it works. Every guide has more, plus when to send and how to reach people who work remotely.
When someone joins
All eight welcome pack ideas
A sweatshirt they’d wear anyway
Heavy cotton in a colour people actually wear, with a small embroidered mark. It posts flat to anyone working from home.
A notebook and a good pen
The first week is all notes: names, logins, acronyms. A debossed hardback gets used from the first meeting.
An insulated bottle or tumbler
Used every day, in the office or at home. Pick one that keeps drinks hot as well as cold so it works all year.
A card from their manager
A printed card with a handwritten line, signed by the person they’ll work with, makes the pack feel chosen rather than ordered.
As the years add up
All nine anniversary ideas
A debossed notebook and pen
A good first-anniversary gift: useful every day, with the logo pressed into the cover so it feels considered rather than promotional.
A quarter-zip worth keeping
Heavier and better cut than the T-shirt from their first week, with a small embroidered chest mark.
A felt and leather laptop sleeve
Carried every working day and good for years. A step up from the kit they joined with.
A premium sherpa fleece
For a decade or more: the warmest, best-made layer in the range, with the smallest possible mark.
When someone leaves
All ten leaving gift ideas
A notebook filled with notes
Hand a plain notebook round the team before the last day and ask everyone to fill a page.
A mug for the new desk
Something from the old team on the new desk: a daily reminder of where they started.
An alumni hoodie they’ll wear
A design current staff can’t get: an alumni mark, the years they were with you, a colour that isn’t the company kit.
A cap with a quiet mark
Easy to post to anyone who has already left. Tonal embroidery makes it a cap first and a logo second.
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