So your well-intended hopes of finishing your Christmas shopping in October went by the wayside… again? Fear not. With so much to choose it can be hard to find the perfect prezzies and perhaps you’ve just been up to your ears in kids’ nativities and Christmas parties.
Luckily our team has been perusing some gifts that make the perfect stocking fillers, so check our best last-minute picks here!
Perfect pout
How about the velvety matte vegan Oriflame Giordani Gold Iconic Matte Lipstick SPF 15 elevated with lip care benefits promoting youthful supple lips?
With a pigment-rich formula, lips can enjoy eight hours of long-lasting colour and care infused formula with Jojoba and Cloudberry Oil. The perfect stocking filler for those who want lips which feel nourished. We love this shade – the perfect pick for Christmas. Fabulous, darling!
Available: Oriflame.co.uk, from £8.49
Christmas cooks
If you’re looking for a real treat for any stocking or a clever little gift for the Christmas Day host, these fantastic four are, literally, the taste of Yuletide in a jar – and they’re vegan as well as gluten free!
This fab Christmas Collection contains Sticky Fig Relish 110g, Cranberry, Port & Orange Sauce 110g, Christmas Spice Chutney 90g and Spiced Plum Chutney 90g. This gift pack and more sets are available from fine food delis and farm shops nationwide and online at Tracklements.
Available: www.tracklements.co.uk, £13.75
Golf guru
The Golf Lover’s Guide to England by Michael Whitehead is a great stocking filler for those who love to tee off! No two courses are ever the same and each has their own captivating story, told here. England has a prolific collection of coastal links and inland courses created by some of golf’s most cherished craftsmen.
This guide offers a golfer everything they would require to enjoy a great round of golf at the best courses England has to offer. All the information you need is right here – par scores, yardage, green-fee price indicators, booking procedure, history of each club and how best to play the course.
Available: Amazon, £11.99
Those in the festive spirit
Bring your festive table settings to life with Fever-Tree’s impressive Christmas cracker range, featuring exciting new additions for this year. Find a cracker for every spirit lover; alongside an extensive G&T selection you’ll find crackers for tequila, vodka, whisky and rum lovers. Each cracker contains 1 x 5cl spirit, 1 x 150ml Fever-Tree can, 1 x Christmas hat and 1 x trivia.
And there’s also a brand-new concept allowing customisation of four crackers of choice, elegantly presented in a branded Fever-Tree box.
Available: John Lewis, from £9
Spice up their life!
Forget Monopoly and Charades! It’s time to challenge your guests with the Sauce Shop® Hot Sauce Challenge Set. This collection is guaranteed to raise the stakes and temperature of your festive game night!
Featuring five of Sauce Shop®’s flavour-packed hot sauces, including the Original Hot Sauce, Sriracha Chilli Sauce, Buffalo Hot Sauce, Habanero Hot Sauce and Habanero Ketchup, each filled to the brim with tongue-tingling ingredients.
Spice up the evening by cooking a load of wings and inviting your friends over to play some wing roulette and see whos’ really got it in their locker. Heat level: hot to extremely hot!
Available: Sauceshop.co.uk, £19.99
Creative kids
If all the talk in your house is about the Weasleys, here’s one for the kids! The Aquabeads Harry Potter Creations Kit beings the wizarding world of the boy with a lightning scar to life.
There are six different beaded creations of all the best characters to be made. Hours of fun for all the family.
Available: Very, £9.99
Bird boffins
This unique fixed perch feeder stores the food inside a refillable, closed feeder cartridge, which is simple to remove and clean and attaches securely to any window using suction cups.
It also features coloured identification trims to help increase visibility and comes complete with a pack of WindowAlert, self-adhesive UV reflective vinyls, in garden friendly shapes such as leaves and butterflies to prevent fatal window collisions.
With two feeding perches, the smaller trough shaped, feed areas, ensure that the food stays dry and cannot be contaminated.
Available: www.finchesfriend.com, £23.95
List lovers
If you’re on the hunt for Secret Santa presents or stocking filler gifts, the British Heart Foundation (BHF) has a range of brand new items which are in its charity shops across the UK.
We love this magnetic jotter, which is not only super handy for all those list-makers out there but it will also help raise money to fund lifesaving research for the 7.6 million people across the UK living with heart and circulatory disease.
Available: British Heart Foundation, £3.50
Present for the pooch
Peamutt Balls are for on-the-go, in-the-park, on-the-beach, in-the-car, or on-the-street, when the doggy did good, there’s always time for a treat.
This extra-nutty, extra-mutty treat is made from dog-friendly peanut butter with added peanuts, then mixed with apple and strawberry puree and rolled in even more peanuts for good luck. Made with 100% palm oil free, means what’s good for your dog is good for the environment.
Available: Asda, £1.50
Racing nut
If you want an exciting gift, how about giving a share in a racecourse? Racing Club has shares available from just £25, or you could buy one of their three-horse packages for £125.
Racing Club is a syndicate that offers people the chance to experience racehorse ownership at a fraction of the price of owning a horse outright. Racing Club members can enjoy plenty of fantastic benefits including table visits, owner badges to see the horse run and the chance to attend events in their hospitality boxes at various venues across the country.
There’s even merchandise to match, including scarves, socks and even a bespoke Racing Club gin!
Available: Racingclub.com, from £25
