Sussex Gifts
Looking for a gift from Sussex for someone who loves Sussex? Perhaps they've moved from the area for work or to be nearer family, and you want to send them something to remind them of home, or to support Sussex companies and charities? Here are a few ideas...
| How about a Sussex calendar to keep track of 2025?
The CalendarClub.co.uk has a number of Sussex related calendars of different sizes, including ones just for Brighton. They'll help you make the most of the year and give images of Sussex to enjoy, too. From £4.99. Take a look here. | |
| Not on the High Street have a Map of West Sussex by Holly Francesca, something to brighten a room with!
You can choose to have prints framed or unframed. The designs are printed using high quality pigment fine art inks on thick, matt white paper with a method called Giclée printing. From £22.40. Find out more here. | |
| | Published in May 2024, Short Walks in West Sussex has a colleciton of 20 short, circular walks. It was put together with families in mind, and it's just the thing for younger and older walkers. The shortest route is 1 1/2 miles, and all the walks are under 4 miles, and they give you the chance to enjoy the beauty of Sussex!
All the routes include parking options, numbered directions, highlights - and there are suggestions for refreshments en route! For £6.95 from Hive.co.uk |
| You could also look at a National Trust Gift Membership - a great way to explore and see some beautiful places in Sussex and further afield. With Petworth House, Nymans, Sheffield Park and Gardens, Standen House and Gardens, Wakehurst Place and Monk's House, there's plenty to do and see.
And not only that, if you're travelling further afield, perhaps on holiday, membership gives you free entry to more than 500 places in the Trust's care, a guidebook to help you make the most of your membership and a magazine three times a year plus more! There's an individual membership, a joint one, a family one and a junior one too! Find out all about it here. | |
| For garden lovers, the National Trust shop has a National Trust Seed Balls Nymans Mix, which could make a nice gift for anyone who loves Nymans or any other garden!
This is a blend of native wildflowers to attract garden wildlife, with foxglove, viper's-bugloss and field scabious. You scatter the seed in spring and autumn and it flowers from May to September. Find out more from the National Trust Shop here. | |
| You could also think about giving a Gift Membership to the Sussex Wildlife Trust for anyone who loves nature and wildlife and wants to keep Sussex beautiful and green and wild! There are nearly 38,000 people who are also standing up for nature as members of the Trust, and membership really helps support the work being done for wild places and wildlife. There
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| If you're looking for more of a food related gift, you could look at an Artisan Gourmet Gift Box. Into the Blue has four to choose from: A Sussex Cheese Gourmet Gift Box for £55.00, a Forest and Field Gourmet Gift Box for £65.00, a Bubbly Forest and Field Gourmet Gift Box for £109.00 or a Taste of Sussex Gourmet Gift Box for £129.00
They all have the finest foods produced by artisans using local ingredients and the gifts are carefully prepared by Sussex Gourmand. This could be just the thing in winter time when your loved ones can snuggle up and tuck in during those dark cold evenings! Find out more from Into the Blue. | |
| For gin lovers, there's a Pure Sussex 40% Abv Award Winning Gin.
Handmade in Sussex, it has a delicate blend of 15 botanicals, creatively distilled and enhanced by the fresh water that has been slowly filtered through the chalk Southdowns resulting in a Pure Sussex Gin! Cheers! Go to Not on the High Street to find out more - it's £44.50. | |
| If your loved one is hungry for history and has a thirst for exploring the past, you could give them a subscription to the British Newspaper Archive and they can explore newspapers online to their hearts' content! The archive has 83,300,000 pages online to explore - historic newspapers - and of course many of them will cover Sussex. Newspapers give us a really good window into past times and an idea of what life was like, what was going on, what people were into - and information for those working on a family history.
The British Newspaper Archive have different lengths of subscription from one month to a year, and the joys of it is that your loved one can explore from home and delve into the past with a hot brew by their side! Find out more here. | |
| And if all this exploring and discovery has worn you out, then West Sussex based Green People have some wellbeing gifts for you - their Alexandra Kay Me Time Scents. Take in essential oil blends and a handheld diffuser for me-time.
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| How about a book to get stuck into on Sussex? Illustrated Tales of Sussex by Christopher Horlock brings us strange and mythical tales from Sussex, with places, events and people that are rarely mentioned in standard histories or guides. We hear of nteresting remains, strange happenings, hoaxes, witchcraft and unusual memorials and also new reminiscences on smuggling.
This book is available from Bookshop.org for £15.19. | |
