Corporate Gift Guide 2025: Sustainable Seasonal Gifts in Ireland  

Corporate Gift Guide 2025: Sustainable Seasonal Gifts in Ireland  

“Every time you spend money, you are casting a vote for the kind of world you want”.   

 Corporate gifting offers a valuable chance for a business to demonstrate its sustainability commitments. By selecting eco-friendly gifts, companies can motivate their staff, enhance their brand reputation, and support a better world. Ireland boasts a variety of small, innovative, and sustainable businesses, alongside many charities, making it simple to “gift” sponsorships and donations to environmental or social initiatives.    

 We recommend several key considerations when selecting gift options:  

  1. Define your values: clarify which criteria are most important for your corporate gifts, e.g. environmental impact, supporting local communities, or fair trade.  
  1. Local sourcing: research and select local SMEs and social enterprises; this supports the local economy and reduces carbon emissions from shipping.  
  1. Eco-friendly materials: choose gifts with a good environmental footprint, such as those made from recycled or upcycled materials; also consider reusable or recyclable packaging.   
  1. Education: raise awareness by providing information about the sustainability and ethics of your chosen gift to recipients.   

 Below is a selection of businesses and charities that offer thoughtful and sustainable gift ideas:  

Locally sourced hampers and stocking-fillers

Support Irish designers and artisan makers and reduce your carbon footprint with hampers or stockings filled with locally sourced goodies.  

  • CanDo Enterprises makes a range of handmade luxury items, including soaps and candles made by young people with multiple disabilities and visual impairments (MDVI).  
  • Hanna’s Bees Honey, seeds, beeswax gifts and more, from a small business that works to support and protect native pollinators and raise awareness of their importance. 
  • Faerly is an Irish online store for sustainable living with a collection of everyday items and beautiful products from small Irish makers and eco-conscious brands. 
  • Ode to Earth is a one-stop shop for organic, eco-friendly products that aims to eliminate plastic waste; it features products from over 40 Irish producers.   
  • Earth Mother is a trove of natural, eco-friendly products for babies, small children and the household.   
  • Reuzi Irish eco-store with a variety of zero-waste gift options. 
  • Notions and Lotions sustainably and handmade Irish soap, skincare and haircare with zero palm oil, plastic or waste 
  • Mendicity is a social enterprise selling handmade wooden products, including window boxes, garden furniture and dog beds, as well as copper art, lino prints and greeting cards. All made in their workshop, by people coming from homelessness and addiction.  
  • Palm Free Irish Soap Ltd. is a long-standing Irish manufacturer of soaps that are free from palm oil and sold in zero plastic packaging 
  • We Make Good products including toys, toiletries and home décor are designed by some of Ireland’s best designers and made by people facing social challenges and marginalisation, who are supported in developing valuable skills and finding lasting employment.   
  • Rediscovery Centre Eco Store provides a wide range of upcycled and reused circular economy products.   

Ethical coffee and chocolate

Some firm favourites are unfortunately often linked to environmental and human rights challenges; choose a company that does more to know and support workers and communities in their supply chains.   

  • Bean and Goose based in Gorey was founded with the simple idea that chocolate could reflect a sense of place, a respect for craft, and a responsibility to the planet. 
  • Moyee Coffee – Fair Chain coffee ensures more value remains in coffee-growing countries by creating quality employment and providing farmers with a living income. It is also available for office supplies  
  • Imbibe Coffee – Dublin-based organic coffee roasters that give back: 1% of all their revenues goes to Women’s Aid, 1% to projects in coffee-growing communities, and a further 1% is shared among their staff 
  • Tonys Chocolonely – OK, not Irish, but delicious! Tony’s is a chocolate brand committed to eradicating child labour in the global chocolate supply chain.   
  • Cloud Picker Coffee  LGBTQ-owned and B-Corp certified coffee roasters based in South Dublin, offering a range of speciality coffees 

Supports artists and local economies  

By purchasing directly from an artist, you support the artist and their community.  

Independent bookshops

Independent bookshops contribute to characterful and thriving high streets and local communities; many provide social spaces and access to arts and culture events, and actively support diverse Irish literary voices.  

  • Books Upstairs (Dublin) – small but iconic independent bookstore with a focus on Irish authors, literary fiction, and poetry.  
  • Vibes & Scribes (Cork) – a family-owned Cork institution, with a wide selection of books as well as arts and crafting supplies.  

Irish environment and wildlife

Several charities and foundations provide opportunities to support Irish flora and fauna through donations or sponsorships that can be given in someone’s name. These gifts also help raise awareness of our natural environment and the importance of safeguarding it. 

  • Hometree Ireland – supports reforestation projects in the Burren. Gift options include pledging trees, signing up for membership, or immersive nature experiences.    
  • Grown Forest – plant a variety of native trees, and issue beautiful certificates in recycled (from old Dublin dance-floor floorboards!) frames. Corporate opportunities can be arranged. 
  • Reforest Nation – is another organisation that will plant native trees for gift recipients and offers framed certificates and artworks in recognition.  
  • The Native Woodland Trust – is dedicated to saving the last of Ireland’s remaining ancient woodlands and offers tree sponsorship. 
  • SEAL Rescue Ireland – is a charity dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of sick, injured, or orphaned seals. Adopting a seal or buying a gift membership can help to raise the recipient’s awareness of and interest in marine wildlife.  
  • The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) – It is a registered charity that works to protect whales, dolphins, and the marine environment; through their online shop, you can purchase membership, ‘adopt’ a cetacean, or buy gifts whose proceeds go to the organisation.  

Support emergency relief and help to tackle social disadvantage

The organisations below offer a practical way to support some of the most vulnerable people in Irish society, or to contribute in a small way to alleviating the suffering of those facing conflict around the world.   

  • Focus Ireland – provides services, housing projects, advice and advocacy on behalf of homeless people around the country.   
  • UNICEF – UNICEF Ireland is currently running a dedicated appeal for children in Gaza and Lebanon in need of food, shelter, and protection. 
  • Unwrapped Oxfam Ireland is a range of charity gifts that give back, from clean water to providing education for young girls.  
  • Direct Provision Gift Drive – BITCI works closely with our Phibsborough neighbour Bohemian FC on a range of climate and community initiatives. We’re pleased to promote this collective initiative to raise funds and buy Christmas toys for children spending the festive season in direct provision.  

Sourcing sustainable and ethical corporate gifts may take time and have a slightly higher upfront cost, but it shows your dedication to responsible business practices and can have a real positive impact on smaller businesses.  Equally, donating on behalf of staff or a company can be a way to show social solidarity at what can be a particularly difficult time of year for many people. 

We recognise there are numerous other excellent small businesses, social enterprises, and deserving charities not listed, and we encourage companies to consider their corporate gifting choices a bit differently this year!   

To learn more about how we can assist you with your sustainable procurement, please contact your Account Manager (for members). If you are not a member, you can find out more here.