Green Gifts
When giving, it's great to give something that will help the planet! Here's our selection of local 'green' gifts, which includes both sustainable items and low-impact experiences. And if you're sending greeting cards, you might like to consider sending e-cards for the price of a voluntary donation to Avon Wildlife Trust (perhaps what you might have spent on buying and mailing paper cards).
Fun for all the family! Our Clifton Village Treasure Hunt takes you on a circular route around the village, on a walk about 1.3 miles long that lasts about 45 minutes. Along the way, you have to find the answers to some intriguing questions. Tried and tested: answers at the back. You'll never look at the village the same way again! £8, with all profits in aid of us. Available at our events and at Smaller Footprints, 9 Regent Street.
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Zero Waste Shop Gift Voucher! The wasteful nature of single-use packaging contributes to climate change, degrades the natural environment and impacts the life it hosts. Every re-used piece of packaging reduces the demand for new to be created and directly lessens these harms. Help a loved one to avoid single-use packaging with a voucher for Smaller Footprints at 9 Regent Street, Clifton Village.
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Bristol's Community Cookery School, Square Food Foundation teaches people of all ages, abilities and from all walks of life to cook good food from scratch. Their programme of masterclasses for 2020 includes Breadmaking, Vegan, Knife Skills, Fish Cookery and A Mexican Feast. Kids can choose from Italian Cooking, Perfect Pastry & Easter Booking. Gift Vouchers available too! Book now.
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Lion’s Mane mushroom is bizarre and beautiful and now rare in the wild, and Upcycled Mushrooms offer a simple and easy Lion’s Mane mushroom growing kit. Upcycled Mushrooms is a Bristol mushroom-growing business that aims to use up and recycle as many local waste products – such as woodchip and sawdust – in its seasonal growing process as possible.
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Grow Wilder, formerly Feed Bristol, is the Avon Wildlife Trust's food growing project and they now have gift cards available online. They can be used to buy fresh vegetables, plants and wildflowers.
Based on Lower Redland Road, just off Blackboy Hill, The Bristol Artisan sells work by 50 independent Bristol and UK based designer makers with an emphasis on handmade sustainable practises. Ceramics, jewellery, homewares, lighting, clothing, cards, gifts, original prints and beauty products can all be found instore or on the website.
Atmosphere Electric Bikes, below Brandon Hill at 137 St George's Rd, offer one of the largest choices of e-bikes in the South West, with a wide range of prices and brands.
Davis Bell McCraith Wines in King’s Road in Clifton Village sell English and organic wines.
Neal’s Yard Remedies at 126 Whiteladies Road describes itself as a “modern apothecary”, using the highest possible proportion of organic ingredients, along with ethically sourced herbs, botanicals and essential oils, to create health and beauty products that are sustainably packaged and easily recycled.
Better Food, at 94A Whiteladies Road, has a food hall and deli. They sell organic fruit and vegetables, health and bodycare products and supplements, a selection of alcohol, household goods and plants, herbs and flowers. All sorts of food treats suitable as gifts.
Limeburn Hill Vineyard make organic, vegan wine just outside Bristol at Chew Magna. They run vineyard tours, tasting events and workshops.
Quoins Vineyard just outside Bath also make organic wine and offer tours. The vineyard is surrounded by over a hundred fruit, nut and forest trees, and the area is a haven for wildlife.
The Belmont Estate organise an interesting variety of courses and training opportunities including foraging and feasting, bush craft, mindfulness, yoga and lots more.
Clifton Lido at Oakfield Place in Clifton offers gift vouchers for its spa packages, “swim and eat” package, and so on.
Bristol-based New Dawn Traders engage in fair trade by sail, aiming to raise awareness of our overconsumption and the fact that 90% of what we buy comes off container ships, often using the worst type of polluting fuel. New Dawn Traders import products that can’t be grown in England, such as coffee, chocolate and rum.
At 20th Century Flicks, now at 19 Christmas Steps in Bristol, you can hire the cinema for a private showing for your friends and family.
Chance & Counters at 20 Christmas Steps is Bristol’s first dedicated board-games cafe, with more than 850 games to choose from for a great night out. The cafe serves beer and cider and has a seasonal food menu including vegan choices.
Natural Beauty at 95a Lower Redland Road in Bristol offers massage, facials, manicures and pedicures, using mostly organic and natural products.
Organic Blooms is an organic cut-flower farm near Bristol. They offer a range of workshops and courses, including Christmas workshops at lovely Acton Court, and sell gift vouchers, seasonal posies by post, and many other inventive gifts.
The Ethicurean is an ethically conscious Modern British restaurant set in a walled garden, serving vegetable-led, seasonal produce at Wrington, outside Bristol. With a gift voucher, you can treat friends or family to afternoon tea with an amble around the stunning garden, a lunch or an evening dinner.
Yeo Valley Farm – yes, that one – is an organic, family farm in Somerset and offers everything from farm tours and cooking demos to great food in their cafe and restaurant, an annual ValleyFest and a snowdrop spectacular. Take a look at their events, several of which you can buy gift vouchers for.
Sustrans, based in Bristol, is a UK walking and cycling charity. Its gifts include vouchers, cards, art prints, jewellery, games and books for the keen cyclist or walker.
Bristol-based personal stylist Becky Barnes does small-group tours of hand-picked charity shops on Gloucester Road in Bristol, giving expert styling advice to guide your choices. Great if you’re not sure what suits you, don’t know where to start in a charity shop or just fancy an introduction to shopping with a personal stylist.
In an “escape room”, your small team of family or friends have to work together to find clues, solve puzzles and escape the room before your time runs out. In Bristol, escape rooms include Bristol Escape Rooms on St Augustine’s Parade, Escape Hunt Bristol at Cabot Circus, which also includes an outdoor game on the streets of the city, and Locked in a Room on Millennium Square. Themes range from Blackbeard’s Dungeon to Doctor Who to the jungle, and all three companies offer gift vouchers.
Adopt a badger through Avon Wildlife Trust on someone's behalf and they'll receive a cuddly toy, certificate, fact sheet and special updates.
Bristol Cloth offers scarves, throws, and cloth by the metre, all made from biologically washed wool from Fernhill Farm, and dyed naturally with organic plant dyes. The farming practices used lock carbon back into the soil, regenerate soil fertility and offer the highest standards of animal welfare.
Cut your fuel bills and keep warm at home with thermal socks and gloves from Oxfam shops.
Based on Lower Redland Road, just off Blackboy Hill, The Bristol Artisan sells work by 50 independent Bristol and UK based designer makers with an emphasis on handmade sustainable practises. Ceramics, jewellery, homewares, lighting, clothing, cards, gifts, original prints and beauty products can all be found instore or on the website.
Atmosphere Electric Bikes, below Brandon Hill at 137 St George's Rd, offer one of the largest choices of e-bikes in the South West, with a wide range of prices and brands.
Davis Bell McCraith Wines in King’s Road in Clifton Village sell English and organic wines.
Neal’s Yard Remedies at 126 Whiteladies Road describes itself as a “modern apothecary”, using the highest possible proportion of organic ingredients, along with ethically sourced herbs, botanicals and essential oils, to create health and beauty products that are sustainably packaged and easily recycled.
Better Food, at 94A Whiteladies Road, has a food hall and deli. They sell organic fruit and vegetables, health and bodycare products and supplements, a selection of alcohol, household goods and plants, herbs and flowers. All sorts of food treats suitable as gifts.
Limeburn Hill Vineyard make organic, vegan wine just outside Bristol at Chew Magna. They run vineyard tours, tasting events and workshops.
Quoins Vineyard just outside Bath also make organic wine and offer tours. The vineyard is surrounded by over a hundred fruit, nut and forest trees, and the area is a haven for wildlife.
The Belmont Estate organise an interesting variety of courses and training opportunities including foraging and feasting, bush craft, mindfulness, yoga and lots more.
Clifton Lido at Oakfield Place in Clifton offers gift vouchers for its spa packages, “swim and eat” package, and so on.
Bristol-based New Dawn Traders engage in fair trade by sail, aiming to raise awareness of our overconsumption and the fact that 90% of what we buy comes off container ships, often using the worst type of polluting fuel. New Dawn Traders import products that can’t be grown in England, such as coffee, chocolate and rum.
At 20th Century Flicks, now at 19 Christmas Steps in Bristol, you can hire the cinema for a private showing for your friends and family.
Chance & Counters at 20 Christmas Steps is Bristol’s first dedicated board-games cafe, with more than 850 games to choose from for a great night out. The cafe serves beer and cider and has a seasonal food menu including vegan choices.
Natural Beauty at 95a Lower Redland Road in Bristol offers massage, facials, manicures and pedicures, using mostly organic and natural products.
Organic Blooms is an organic cut-flower farm near Bristol. They offer a range of workshops and courses, including Christmas workshops at lovely Acton Court, and sell gift vouchers, seasonal posies by post, and many other inventive gifts.
The Ethicurean is an ethically conscious Modern British restaurant set in a walled garden, serving vegetable-led, seasonal produce at Wrington, outside Bristol. With a gift voucher, you can treat friends or family to afternoon tea with an amble around the stunning garden, a lunch or an evening dinner.
Yeo Valley Farm – yes, that one – is an organic, family farm in Somerset and offers everything from farm tours and cooking demos to great food in their cafe and restaurant, an annual ValleyFest and a snowdrop spectacular. Take a look at their events, several of which you can buy gift vouchers for.
Sustrans, based in Bristol, is a UK walking and cycling charity. Its gifts include vouchers, cards, art prints, jewellery, games and books for the keen cyclist or walker.
Bristol-based personal stylist Becky Barnes does small-group tours of hand-picked charity shops on Gloucester Road in Bristol, giving expert styling advice to guide your choices. Great if you’re not sure what suits you, don’t know where to start in a charity shop or just fancy an introduction to shopping with a personal stylist.
In an “escape room”, your small team of family or friends have to work together to find clues, solve puzzles and escape the room before your time runs out. In Bristol, escape rooms include Bristol Escape Rooms on St Augustine’s Parade, Escape Hunt Bristol at Cabot Circus, which also includes an outdoor game on the streets of the city, and Locked in a Room on Millennium Square. Themes range from Blackbeard’s Dungeon to Doctor Who to the jungle, and all three companies offer gift vouchers.
Adopt a badger through Avon Wildlife Trust on someone's behalf and they'll receive a cuddly toy, certificate, fact sheet and special updates.
Bristol Cloth offers scarves, throws, and cloth by the metre, all made from biologically washed wool from Fernhill Farm, and dyed naturally with organic plant dyes. The farming practices used lock carbon back into the soil, regenerate soil fertility and offer the highest standards of animal welfare.
Cut your fuel bills and keep warm at home with thermal socks and gloves from Oxfam shops.
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